CBPhoto From United States of America, joined Dec 2003, 1506 posts, RR: 6 Posted (7 years 5 months 3 days 20 hours ago) and read 3109 times:
Was at the MSP tower today, and Northwest 127 bound for DLH turned back to MSP due to an Engine failure. Plane landed safely, no one was hurt and the aircraft taxied back to the gate on one engine.
Note: This is just a heads up, not to start anything regarding the Mechanics issue, or any other DC-9 Issue!!
GoBoeing From United States of America, joined Jun 2000, 2630 posts, RR: 12 Reply 2, posted (7 years 5 months 3 days 15 hours ago) and read 2886 times:
Quoting LUVRSW (Reply 1): When will NWA replace those DC-9's? Anyone heard anything?
They will all be gone within fifteen years, and maybe closer to ten.
AJRfromSYR From United States of America, joined May 2005, 454 posts, RR: 0 Reply 3, posted (7 years 5 months 3 days 14 hours ago) and read 2820 times:
Quoting LUVRSW (Reply 1): When will NWA replace those DC-9's? Anyone heard anything?
Acidradio From United States of America, joined Mar 2001, 1855 posts, RR: 10 Reply 4, posted (7 years 5 months 3 days 13 hours ago) and read 2762 times:
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They are supposed to replace them with the A380, right?
FriendlySkies From United States of America, joined Aug 2004, 4003 posts, RR: 6 Reply 5, posted (7 years 5 months 3 days 13 hours ago) and read 2748 times:
Quoting Acidradio (Reply 4): They are supposed to replace them with the A380, right?
Nitrohelper From United States of America, joined Mar 2005, 463 posts, RR: 5 Reply 8, posted (7 years 5 months 3 days 6 hours ago) and read 2554 times:
Northwest replace the DC-9's ?,,, maybe I did hear that once or twice before ! Didn't NWA just paint them up recently ? So who do you think should someday , could happen, maybe , replace the DC-9's Boeing or Airbus ?
NA From Germany, joined Dec 1999, 9605 posts, RR: 10 Reply 11, posted (7 years 5 months 3 days 5 hours ago) and read 2463 times:
Btw, NWA had to write off and scrap 2 DC-9s this year already due to relatively minor damage! They´re so old, even the slightest damage makes them unworthy to repair. Shiny new silver paint or not doesn´t matter.
Burnsie28 From United States of America, joined Aug 2004, 7411 posts, RR: 9 Reply 12, posted (7 years 5 months 3 days 2 hours ago) and read 2281 times:
Quoting NA (Reply 11): Btw, NWA had to write off and scrap 2 DC-9s this year already due to relatively minor damage! They´re so old, even the slightest damage makes them unworthy to repair. Shiny new silver paint or not doesn´t matter.
Interesting, care to enlighten the rest of us?
You talking about the DC-9 that had a fuel truck run into it, destroying the radar and part of the cockpit
The plane that ran into another which roof was basically completely gone and the rest of the cockipit destroyed by jetfuel?
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Flyorski From United States of America, joined Dec 2004, 978 posts, RR: 1 Reply 13, posted (7 years 5 months 3 days 2 hours ago) and read 2244 times:
I think NWA may wait for 737NGNG or A320NG to replace the DC-9. Or they may keep flying them, for oh, about 100 more years. I wonder, are they considering a ERJ 170/190 as a suitable replacement?
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Posti From United States of America, joined Oct 2004, 106 posts, RR: 0 Reply 16, posted (7 years 5 months 2 days 19 hours ago) and read 2010 times:
You guys crack me up.
I heard from a friend of my sister's boyfriend's father that NW is planning on rehiring all their mechanics and designing their own DC-9 replacement in-house.
AviatorTJ From United States of America, joined Jul 2003, 1838 posts, RR: 8 Reply 17, posted (7 years 5 months 2 days 14 hours ago) and read 1864 times:
Quoting Burnsie28 (Reply 12): Interesting, care to enlighten the rest of us?
You talking about the DC-9 that had a fuel truck run into it, destroying the radar and part of the cockpit
The plane that ran into another which roof was basically completely gone and the rest of the cockipit destroyed by jetfuel?
Know of two other DC-9s rotting away? Other than the one that lost the hydralics, I'd call that damage relatively minor to other planes that have returned to service.
Quoting Flyorski (Reply 13): I think NWA may wait for 737NGNG or A320NG to replace the DC-9. Or they may keep flying them, for oh, about 100 more years. I wonder, are they considering a ERJ 170/190 as a suitable replacement?
NWA needs to track down some spare cash and a decent product before they even think about buying more new planes. Rumor has it the tails will now be painted silver to match the fuselage because all the red they have is going to the balance sheet.
Levg79 From United States of America, joined Sep 2003, 989 posts, RR: 0 Reply 18, posted (7 years 5 months 2 days 14 hours ago) and read 1833 times:
Quoting LUVRSW (Reply 1): When will NWA replace those DC-9's? Anyone heard anything?
I can't remember the last time I was laughing after a reading a post on a.net!!! Thank you for making my day
Anybody care to know the reg on that one? Would be interesting how many decades this plane has been in service.
By the way, I just remembered something... When you look at the ads with houses for sale, they always mention the particular house being so many years young, i.e. 90 years young. Shouldn't the same be said about these planes?
Ejmmsu From United States of America, joined Oct 2004, 1692 posts, RR: 0 Reply 19, posted (7 years 5 months 2 days 12 hours ago) and read 1795 times:
According to some sources here on a.net with some slight inside ties to NWA, the DC9's will be replaced by A32x's that are continuing to be delivered to NWA, and a new regional carrier, working name NEWCO that will operate E-Jet type aircraft.
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GRRTVC From United States of America, joined Sep 2003, 272 posts, RR: 1 Reply 20, posted (7 years 5 months 2 days 12 hours ago) and read 1782 times:
I remember asking the chief pilot at NW one time how long the DC-9's were going to be around. He stated that NW could continue flying them well past 2020. The airframes on the older models still had plenty of cycles left to do so.
He did mention however that past 2025 the fleet would quickly fade due to the cycles.
Take it for what its worth but if the planes are paid for and they can keep the tires on, they might just make it past 2010 in NW colors.
Levg79 From United States of America, joined Sep 2003, 989 posts, RR: 0 Reply 21, posted (7 years 5 months 2 days 12 hours ago) and read 1767 times:
Quoting GRRTVC (Reply 20): He did mention however that past 2025 the fleet would quickly fade due to the cycles.
Take it for what its worth but if the planes are paid for and they can keep the tires on, they might just make it past 2010 in NW colors.
2010 sounds more realistically than 2025, because these airframes are already pushing close to their maximum allowable life of 100,000 hours. But this is all I want to say because first of all, this is already getting off topic and furthermore, such a topic gets people annoyed so let's get back to the original topic of an engine failure at MSP. Let's try to keep it free of "When will NW replace those old DC-9s" although it will be very difficult to do.
Leo.
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Thepilot From Canada, joined Jan 2010, 5 posts, RR: 0 Reply 22, posted (7 years 5 months 2 days 9 hours ago) and read 1693 times:
Sorry to hear about the emergency, but I am glad no one was hurt.
And for my 2 cents: I heard NW are replacing their DC-9s with Fokker F28-1000s (please note the sarcasm).
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Northwest replace the DC-9's ?,,, maybe I did hear that once or twice before ! Didn't NWA just paint them up recently ? So who do you think should someday , could happen, maybe , replace the DC-9's Boeing or Airbus ? 
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