think_too_mut Posted August 2, 2004 Report Share Posted August 2, 2004 United Airlines plane evacuated By Sutin Wannabovorn in Bangkok, Thailand August 2, 2004 A UNITED Airlines flight preparing to take off from Bangkok's international airport stopped on the runway because of engine trouble today and evacuated hundreds of passengers, leaving about 20 people with minor injuries, an official said. The flight destined for Tokyo, Japan, was scheduled to take off from Bangkok at 7:40 a.m. (0940 AEST) before the captain reported unspecified engine problems and ordered the plane's 348 passengers and 17 crew members to evacuate, an airport official said. The passengers and crew followed emergency procedures and slid down rubber chutes to the tarmac, leaving about 20 people with minor injuries, the control tower official said at Bangkok International Airport on the outskirts of the Thai capital. He did not elaborate. A United Airlines representative would not comment on the incident. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samak Posted August 2, 2004 Report Share Posted August 2, 2004 any board member on the plane? have been several times on this bloody early morning flight. i think they changed to B747 after they flew this with a tripleseven during the after 911 crisis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cardinalblue Posted August 2, 2004 Report Share Posted August 2, 2004 I would suspect the pilot must have decided that the passengers were at some risk (fire, smoke, explosion, etc) for him to evacuate a plane full of people. Evacuation is no easy and rountine task as it always has its own risk involved (due to the health/mobility/age of the passengers) He really must have felt an imminent danger to activate evacuation procedures rather than taxi back to the terminal... Cardinalblue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cardinalblue Posted August 2, 2004 Report Share Posted August 2, 2004 I would suspect the pilot must have decided that the passengers were at some risk (fire, smoke, explosion, etc) for him to evacuate a plane full of people. Evacuation is no easy and rountine task as it always has its own risk involved (due to the health/mobility/age of the passengers) He really must have felt an imminent danger to activate evacuation procedures rather than taxi back to the terminal... Cardinalblue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torneyboy Posted August 2, 2004 Report Share Posted August 2, 2004 Hi two UA flights in a week ...better safe than sorry. He must have had strong reasons for this action. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.. Posted August 2, 2004 Report Share Posted August 2, 2004 Either that or looming contract talks and subtly threatening strike? But that latter action would be a bit excessive to be that since any pilot knows that an evac endangers passengers and I do not believe that any professional would do that. Cheers, SD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MooNoi Posted August 3, 2004 Report Share Posted August 3, 2004 This is from an airline enthusiasts website, so not sure of its accuracy, but *usually* pretty reliable though. (This report is not confirmed as yet). (Note that "V1" is the speed where rotation occurs and the nose-wheel leaves the ground). ************************************************************** "OK here from a friend at UA's internal website: They were at 160knts on take off from BKK and ingested a bird. V1 was 165knots so they aborted take off using reversed thrust and maximum breaking. During the breaking the landing gear overheated and the break fluid caught fire. I don't know what the extent of the fire was but they evacuated on the taxiway". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MooNoi Posted August 3, 2004 Report Share Posted August 3, 2004 Actually, forget the bird theory! Maybe the engine tried ingesting a stray golf ball!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Hippie Posted August 3, 2004 Report Share Posted August 3, 2004 O.k. I work for UAL...Official story, "bird strike on engine (not sure which one), During breaking, fluid over heated, has a fire extinguisher system, not sure if deployed, passangers never in danger. No possibility of Pilots strike etc, that would be (and is being) investigated, and if found to be a pilot fooling around, federal charges and termination would ensue. Not sure it was appropriate to evacuate passangers in this manner, but I have the benifit of hind sight, so cannot second guess the pilot's decision. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elef Posted August 3, 2004 Report Share Posted August 3, 2004 TRAGEDY AVERTED: 4 injured as 747 aborts take-off at Don Muang Published on Aug 3, 2004 A Tokyo-bound United Airlines Boeing 747 jet carrying 346 people including 17 crew had an aborted take-off and blew a tyre at Don Muang airport yesterday, slightly injuring four passengers, the airline said. "The take-off was aborted due to a bird ingested into one of the engines," the US-based airline said in a statement. An evacuation of flight UA838 was ordered and slides were deployed on the runway. "Four minor injuries were reported and they were immediately treated by a medical team at the airport," the statement said. Two of the injured were hospitalised. A United Airlines official would not say whether the injuries occurred while the flight was being aborted or during the emergency evacuation. The Boeing 747 was headed for Tokyo and scheduled to take off at 7.40am, but the captain reported unspecified engine problems and ordered the plane's passengers and crew members to evacuate, an airport official on condition of anonymity. A source at Vibhavadi Hospital said two airport ambulances brought a number of injured foreign passengers to the hospital for medical treatment yesterday morning and most of them were immediately discharged. The hospital would not reveal the identities of the passengers. Agencies, The Nation Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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