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Delta Airlines DC-9 falls in the mud at KSAV
Nobody was hurt, but there might have been a bruised ego (www.wsav.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Right on Brian.
Those that can't, write (make-up).
Those that can't, write (make-up).
Obviously it was a slow reporting night. Wished they had DC's in 1950. You are right on Brian!
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Really is a stupid article. States at one point, "This is the very long list of accidents News 3 found for the DC 9, the same type of plane flying Tuesday night. That dates all the way back to 1950." Didn't know the DC-9 had been around THAT long!
Hello, the first DC9 flew on 1965!!!!!!!! Not in the 50s....Good grief...Someone screwed up again....The DC8 came out in the late 50s....Idiots writing articles...
And the only older DC9s that Delta still flies are the DC9-50 series and they were all built in 1975 and afterwards!!!!!!!!
And the only older DC9s that Delta still flies are the DC9-50 series and they were all built in 1975 and afterwards!!!!!!!!
Quite a difference in the two scenarios.
Maybe they were landing with a tail wind for noise abatement and the pilot didnt adequately adjust for this particularly w/nearly full acft. Curious to know if anti-lock was operating also.
Mr. Davis,
I don't know how you could have misrepresented the reporting of this incident so badly..
It must be a very competitive news environment there in Savannah because in your rush to get the story out, you failed to do the research required to back up your story.
To quote your article, "This is the very long list of accidents News 3 found for the DC 9, the same type of plane flying Tuesday night. That dates all the way back to 1950. Of these, only 5 were planes running off or coming up short on the runway"
You claim that the DC-9 has had only five incidents of running off the runway (BTW - what do you mean by "coming up short"?)
The DC-9's maiden voyage (first flight) was in 1965 - not 1950 - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_DC-9)
A total of 976 DC-9's were manufactured (not counting the MD-80 series of aircraft and B717 which are variants of the DC-9) and with the many hundreds of thousands of flights that the DC-9 has logged around the world - there are only 117 recorded incidents. It is and will always be one of the safest aircraft ever flown.
The DC-9 like many other aircraft like it around the world, has slid off the runway into the mud or grass many more times than the five you refer to (also, isn't it a journalistic standard to spell out any number under 10?) Most of these incursions are associated with rain or slick concrete/asphalt. A vast majority of these are unreported for three reasons. 1, No damage to the aircraft 2. no injuries 3. No emergency exit of the aircraft required. No amount of research is going to give you the exact number.
At the end of the day, the story should have been how the airline handled the incident and its customers, which according to your "exclusive" passenger video sounded very professional and organized.
If the NTSB isn't even investigating the incident, then why would you waste WSAV's time sending "multiple crews to investigate the incident"? What a waste of man hours and money.
This article looks like a 6th grader wrote.it. Your lack of knowledge has blown this way out of proportion and deflects the attention away from the stellar safety protocol the airline exhibited, which should have been the subject of your story.