ChrisNH From United States of America, joined Jun 1999, 3819 posts, RR: 2 Posted (5 years 4 months 1 week 2 days 8 hours ago) and read 1715 times:
Flight 8555 was on a routine troop-carrying charter from Kuwait-->Germany-->Bangor, Maine-->California this morning when a flap issue caused the crew to over-fly Bangor and instead divert further south to Pease in Portsmouth, NH. A mechanic is being dispatched to KPSM to fix the plane. But with a gorgeous Red Hook Brewery on premises at Pease Tradeport, we wonder whether those charters will start coming to Pease instead of Bangor!
V1uhoh From United States of America, joined Jul 2000, 22 posts, RR: 0 Reply 1, posted (5 years 4 months 1 week 2 days 6 hours ago) and read 1637 times:
Though I don't have any more detail, company web site indicated a slat problem. Final destination is Riverside (March AFB). Planned 24 hour delay.
ChrisNH From United States of America, joined Jun 1999, 3819 posts, RR: 2 Reply 2, posted (5 years 4 months 1 week 2 days 3 hours ago) and read 1519 times:
You must mean the World Airways internal web site, not the external one.
EMBQA From United States of America, joined Oct 2003, 9292 posts, RR: 12 Reply 3, posted (5 years 4 months 1 week 2 days 1 hour ago) and read 1440 times:
Quoting ChrisNH (Thread starter): But with a gorgeous Red Hook Brewery on premises at Pease Tradeport
Too bad the beer sucks...!! I was based their with BEX when Red Hook opened... In BGR just a short drive downtown gets you the Sea Dog.... much better beer.
[Edited 2008-02-11 13:10:02]
"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog"
ChrisNH From United States of America, joined Jun 1999, 3819 posts, RR: 2 Reply 4, posted (5 years 4 months 1 week 11 hours ago) and read 1231 times:
The plane left PSM yesterday, bound for California and its load of 300 troops. One soldier interviewed said the landing was pretty scary. From the Portsmouth newspaper comes this excerpt:
"We were in the air and the plane started doing this," said Otero,
shaking his hand with a back and forth wrist motion. "We had some
trouble with the brakes or landing gear, too, because when we landed,
we hit and skidded sideways. Yeah, it was scary."
SKIDDED SIDEWAYS??? For someone coming back from the war in Iraq, that's saying a lot.
One of our pilot members from my Manchester Airport (NH) Yahoo Group flew into PSM yesterday and reported a 2,000-3,000 foot-long 's-shaped' mark from the main gear of the MD-11...marks that weren't on the runway last week.
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