An American Airlines plane that experienced engine failure may have dropped parts on a Queens neighborhood, CBS2 HD reports.
Flight 309, an MD 80, took off from LaGuardia Airport en route to Chicago’s O’Hare International just after 8 a.m. Wednesday morning.
According to the Federal Aviation Administration, the plane’s number two engine failed some 20 minutes after taking off from New York City.
The plane was diverted to John F. Kennedy Airport where it landed safely.
Some metal fragments apparently from the plane’s engine reportedly landed on the rooftop of a warehouse at 31-99 123rd Street in the College Point section of Queens. Investigators collected the metal fragments and placed them in a box to send to the FAA for investigation.
“We heard a very, very loud sonic boom or explosion, followed immediately thereafter of about 30 to 45 seconds of debris raining down, everybody was quite alarmed. We immediately suspected it was a problem with a plane,” one witness at the warehouse told CBS 2.
There are no reports of injuries aboard the plane nor on the ground where the scraps landed.
The cause of the mishap is being investigated by the FAA.
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that plane pictured above is not an MD-80.
I’m glad no one was hurt but that is a long way to go just to avoid the Belt.
Just WATCH the FAA now say, “Safety was never compromised”, and that “It’s the safest period in aviation history”. FAA’s aero-publicist “spokespersons” like Jim Peters, Arlene Salac, Marcia Adams, Kathleen Bergen, and Laura Brown, are just a bunch of PAID LIARS.
So – on which birds are FAA and NTSB now going to blame THIS today nonsense occurring in College Point (Queens), New York [instead of airline/FAA cronyism and uninspected and under-inspected plane defects] –
Flying OSTRICHES perhaps? Maybe, EMUS?
Flight 1549’s defective engines were the subject of an EMERGENCY Airworthiness Directive (A.D.) dated 12/31/2008, two weeks before the plane’s 1/15/2009 Hudson River bath. The A.D. is re-published at:
http://indictsturgell.blogspot.com/2009/02/nick-sabatini-big-ex-faa-chicken.html
Friday, February 20, 2009
“Nick Sabatini, The Big Ex-FAA Chicken”
And then there is that matter of 50 innocent people killed on February 12, 2009 by FAA and airline malfeasance, in Clarence Center, NY, near Buffalo. If you serve a FOIA request on FAA asking for all documents reflecting the names of all FAA officials and employees who attended ANY of the memorial services of the 50 victims, you will likely receive a “No Records Response” from the FAA’s FOIA unit – marking the first time the FAA FOIA unit ever answered anything truthfully.
WATCH now, as the FAA now enlists hack low-level FAA employees to anonymously blog-back to newspaper message-boards nationwide, in an effort to conceal the truth and cover-up the rank incompetence of their federal “agency”.
All FAA is, is a bad P.R. firm.
All FAA is, is a bad P.R. firm.
You will know the FAA employee-bloggers because they will be the ones too cowardly to identify themselves in the text of their newspaper bulletin-board message-posts by their real names and job descriptions.
It’s again RAINING METAL.
John J. Tormey III, Esq.
Quiet Rockland
are they sure it was not just purim shtick that fell on the roof top with a sonic boom