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Dw747400 From United States of America, joined Aug 2001, 1244 posts, RR: 1
Posted (5 years 5 months 2 weeks 10 hours ago) and read 8839 times:

Just saw the update from the FAA and found this article:

http://www.nbc5.com/news/14857986/detail.html

Anyone know more? Apparently they are only using two runways right now.

[Edited 2007-12-14 14:18:52]

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Diamond From United States of America, joined Apr 2004, 3279 posts, RR: 66
Reply 1, posted (5 years 5 months 2 weeks 10 hours ago) and read 8825 times:

CNN is showing live pics of the aircraft now. It appears to be to the side of a taxiway but not on it (I could be wrong). As the article stated, the chutes are deployed and there must be 30 emergency vehicles surrounding it. There are no flames or visible smoke, however.

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Diamond From United States of America, joined Apr 2004, 3279 posts, RR: 66
Reply 2, posted (5 years 5 months 2 weeks 10 hours ago) and read 8813 times:

UA flight 836 from Shanghai - a 777.

Was scheduled to land at ORD anyway.

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Bananaboy From United Kingdom, joined Oct 2004, 1558 posts, RR: 26
Reply 3, posted (5 years 5 months 2 weeks 10 hours ago) and read 8751 times:

http://cbs2chicago.com/local/united.airlines.evacuation.2.611313.html

The above news report did mention smoke in the cabin.....

Apparently, it's N220UA

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PHLwok From United States of America, joined May 2007, 376 posts, RR: 0
Reply 4, posted (5 years 5 months 2 weeks 10 hours ago) and read 8672 times:

Quoting Bananaboy (Reply 3):
Apparently, it's N220UA

http://www.nbc5.com/news/14857986/detail.html has a blurry picture at the very bottom at the moment, and it appears to be a 777 in old colors.

UnitedTristar From United States of America, joined May 2004, 1242 posts, RR: 4
Reply 5, posted (5 years 5 months 2 weeks 10 hours ago) and read 8623 times:

Here is the picture. looks like new colors to me

http://www.nbc5.com/2007/1214/14858138.jpg

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[Edited 2007-12-14 14:45:07]

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Dw747400 From United States of America, joined Aug 2001, 1244 posts, RR: 1
Reply 6, posted (5 years 5 months 2 weeks 10 hours ago) and read 8574 times:

ORD operations are apparently back to normal now.

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BlueSkys From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 7, posted (5 years 5 months 2 weeks 9 hours ago) and read 8285 times:

Must have been a possibly critical situation, they blew 3 slides on the left side. I wonder if any slides on the other side were deployed.

Scorpy From United States of America, joined Dec 2006, 398 posts, RR: 1
Reply 8, posted (5 years 5 months 2 weeks 9 hours ago) and read 8219 times:

I thought UA used the 744 from ORD to Shanghai?

GoAllegheny From United States of America, joined Nov 2000, 340 posts, RR: 0
Reply 9, posted (5 years 5 months 2 weeks 7 hours ago) and read 7990 times:

According to the Trib web article, the captain of the 777 decided to order an emergency evac of the 273 passengers and crew because of a report of smoke in the cabin shortly before landing. One person was taken to the hospital because of back pain. Runway 10-28 was closed for 24 minutes. I presume the evac occurred off-runway, but in any case a 24 minute closure is impressively short.

Anway, glad no one (hopefully) was seriously hurt in the process. Only an incident, but still certainly unusual.

DeltaGator From United States of America, joined Sep 2005, 6341 posts, RR: 16
Reply 10, posted (5 years 5 months 2 weeks 5 hours ago) and read 7764 times:

Quoting UnitedTristar (Reply 5):
Here is the picture. looks like new colors to me

My picture is almost as crappy. I wandered over to the AA concourse looking for something to bring home to the rugrat and saw the action going on. It was in the new colors.

Quoting Dw747400 (Thread starter):
Apparently they are only using two runways right now.

They must have cleaned it all up pretty quickly because there were no delays at ORD at 5PM for the first time in I don't know how long I've been flying in and out of there. Wink

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Beefstew25 From United States of America, joined Sep 2005, 675 posts, RR: 0
Reply 11, posted (5 years 5 months 2 weeks 5 hours ago) and read 7725 times:

Random question:

What is the cost of repacking the chutes on a 777?

MLB: Where you are always number one for takeoff.....

Cubsrule From United States of America, joined May 2004, 21247 posts, RR: 19
Reply 12, posted (5 years 5 months 2 weeks 3 hours ago) and read 7571 times:

Quoting DeltaGator (Reply 10):

They must have cleaned it all up pretty quickly because there were no delays at ORD at 5PM for the first time in I don't know how long I've been flying in and out of there.

I flew in from STL this afternoon and arrived 25 minutes early... shocking.

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Swiftski From Australia, joined Dec 2006, 2701 posts, RR: 2
Reply 13, posted (5 years 5 months 1 week 6 days 20 hours ago) and read 6889 times:

fwiw 835 has continuing service to LGA

Acabgd From Serbia, joined Jul 2005, 625 posts, RR: 0
Reply 14, posted (5 years 5 months 1 week 6 days 19 hours ago) and read 6213 times:

Nice job by the crew to get everybody safely evacuated with only one lightly injured. As for the cost of repacking shutes - imagine what would the cost be if there was a fire and 273 didn't leave the plane on time...?

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Jasondn From South Africa, joined Nov 2007, 190 posts, RR: 1
Reply 15, posted (5 years 5 months 1 week 6 days 17 hours ago) and read 5459 times:

This happened to me on 9 November 2007 on a EK 777-300ER on a flight from DXB to KWI. The crew did one heck of a decent from 40,000ft and turned back to DXB. We were also greeted on the runway by fire engines, etc.

Not an experiance I would like to relive in the near future.

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