GSPITNL From United States of America, joined Oct 2003, 374 posts, RR: 4 Posted (5 years 2 months 2 days 18 hours ago) and read 9409 times:
A Local TV Outlet here in GSP has reported that a Delta Aircraft has diverted to GSP due to smoke in the cockpit and a passenger being burned. Will post more details as I can find them.
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Dragon6172 From United States of America, joined Jul 2007, 1160 posts, RR: 0 Reply 8, posted (5 years 2 months 2 days 16 hours ago) and read 9081 times:
Fire on the plane huh? I would take an engine failure over that about any day.
KFLLCFII From United States of America, joined Sep 2004, 3262 posts, RR: 33 Reply 9, posted (5 years 2 months 2 days 16 hours ago) and read 9068 times:
Quote: Passengers say more than midway through the flight they heard a loud boom, and then immediately smoke and white ash started to fill back of the plane. The person seated in that row was completely covered in some type of insulation.
Passengers say they started to scream, cry and rush toward front of plane.
They also say the heat was overwhelming.
Passengers say flight attendants began immediately helping passengers, reassuring them that they were going to make emergency landing
The FAA says it has very preliminary information. There was some sort of explosion. The flight, Delta 1819, was on its way from Charlotte to Atlanta when it was diverted to Greer. The Boeing 767 landed safely and taxied to the gate. One person has minor burns and was taken off the plane at GSP. Hazmat is on the scene trying to figure out what exploded on the plane.
Would/could an overhead oxygen canister have caused such an event? Have they been known to explode?
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Halophila From United States of America, joined Aug 2005, 623 posts, RR: 2 Reply 11, posted (5 years 2 months 2 days 16 hours ago) and read 8981 times:
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RFields5421 From United States of America, joined Jul 2007, 6140 posts, RR: 25 Reply 16, posted (5 years 2 months 2 days 13 hours ago) and read 8436 times:
Quoting KFLLCFII (Reply 9): Quote:
Passengers say more than midway through the flight they heard a loud boom, and then immediately smoke and white ash started to fill back of the plane. .... Hazmat is on the scene trying to figure out what exploded on the plane.
Would/could an overhead oxygen canister have caused such an event? Have they been known to explode?
The passenger story sounds like a fire extinguisher going off.
Dry chemical fire extinguishers like used on aircraft produce a lot of what people often mistake for white ash. There is no explosion - just a huge loud rush of air. The actual powder looks like ash, and the amount of powder in the air looks like smoke.
It can be very scary and confusing - when the emergency systems are reacting the way they are supposed to react.
RDUDDJI From Lesotho, joined Jun 2004, 1313 posts, RR: 3 Reply 17, posted (5 years 2 months 2 days 13 hours ago) and read 8413 times:
Quoting AirTranTUS (Reply 7): Looks like a sub for the 757. Very nice.
In the very short period that I worked for DL in RDU back in 01-02. It was not unusual for a 762 or 763 to sub for a 757. What sucks is that DL didn't (not sure now) have cargo loaders at RDU, so they either had to be borrowed or on the 762's bags could be bulk loaded on the floor of the pits.
I was calling shadiness when I saw the press report that said 269 pax were onboard, until I saw it was a 763.
474218 From United States of America, joined Oct 2005, 6340 posts, RR: 10 Reply 18, posted (5 years 2 months 2 days 13 hours ago) and read 8351 times:
Quoting KFLLCFII (Reply 9):
Quote:
Passengers say more than midway through the flight they heard a loud boom, and then immediately smoke and white ash started to fill back of the plane. The person seated in that row was completely covered in some type of insulation.
Passengers say they started to scream, cry and rush toward front of plane.
They also say the heat was overwhelming.
Passengers say flight attendants began immediately helping passengers, reassuring them that they were going to make emergency landing
The FAA says it has very preliminary information. There was some sort of explosion. The flight, Delta 1819, was on its way from Charlotte to Atlanta when it was diverted to Greer. The Boeing 767 landed safely and taxied to the gate. One person has minor burns and was taken off the plane at GSP. Hazmat is on the scene trying to figure out what exploded on the plane.
Would/could an overhead oxygen canister have caused such an event? Have they been known to explode?
Dl757md From United States of America, joined May 2004, 1555 posts, RR: 18 Reply 20, posted (5 years 2 months 2 days 11 hours ago) and read 8185 times:
It is a pneumatic duct problem and the "white ash" is more than likely just plain old household type dust that normally accumulates in rarely accessed areas of the fuselage that was blown into the cabin by the rush of air from the blown duct.
Scary for those on board to be sure but not life threatening nor would the aircraft ever have been in danger of crashing.
777WT From United States of America, joined Jan 2005, 874 posts, RR: 1 Reply 23, posted (5 years 2 months 2 days ago) and read 5301 times:
Quoting 474218 (Reply 18): From the description it was an ECS duct failure. Source of heat (burned passenger), noise and white ash, not an unusual occurrence.
I was thinking of the same thing, bleed air or hot duct tubing has bursted and the rush of air damaged and sent tiny pieces of insulation airborne which is mistaken for white ash...
777WT From United States of America, joined Jan 2005, 874 posts, RR: 1 Reply 24, posted (5 years 2 months 2 days ago) and read 5225 times:
Quoting Nucsh (Reply 21): The local news in Raleigh mentioned something about the air conditioning system malfunctioning. Perhaps a pack caught on fire or overheated?
Packs are located between the wing and the body...stuffed inside the wing fairing...
[Edited 2008-03-20 08:33:04]
25 DTWAGENT: To bad the don't sub an MD-80 with a B757 or B767 here in DTW. I have not seen that size of plane with DL for god knows how long. But, I'm glad everyt
26 Mycrj17: He or She must have spilled a cup of coffee on them...
27 Nelsonde: Could this 2/28/08 AD be addressing this problem? http://content.atp.com/ADs/pdf/08021...?JServSessionIdroot=d3fshtvuf1.JS2 Seems like this might be t
28 DC9RHI: Could be spring break/Easter weekend too. Lots of people traveling this week and next.
29 Thegooddoctor: November 2001 was the last time I flew a DL widebody (762) out of DTW - I think they stopped soon after that.
30 Dl757md: Nope. Blown bleed duct near the bulk cargo door. DL757Md
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Would have been nice to see that on approach here, but there was a driving rainstorm in progress at the time.
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