Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: 747, 777, aging aircraft, airlive, aviation, Boeing, Broomfield, Colorado, cowling, DEN, emergency, engine failure, jet engines, Liege, Longtail Aviation, Maastricht Aachen Airport, Singapore Airlines, turbine blades, United Airlines
Not just the incident over Broomfield, Colorado, but this one also (via airlive.net):
“A Longtail Aviation Boeing 747-400F diverted to Liege after one of the engine’s caught fire, sending out a loud bang.
The aircraft was operating flight LGT5504 from Maastricht Aachen Airport to New York. The aircraft departed from Maastricht at 4:11 pm.
After its engine caught fire and lost pieces of turbine blades shortly after departure, the aircraft entered into a holding pattern at 10,000 feet and diverted to Liege Airport.”
BREAKING Turbine blades of a Boeing 747-400F’s engine fell on several parked cars
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: air cargo, air traffic, air travel, aviation, economic activity, economics, energy, jet fuel, peak oil, recession, transportation
Trending down.
Via Macronomics:
Macronomics: Air Traffic is pointing to additional economic activity weakness.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: aviation, fuel costs, jet fuel, Patti Smith, Patty Smith, peak oil, transportation
Via LA Times:
Patty Smith, who flew to Los Angeles from Portland, Ore., for a recent vacation, said she saw no empty seats on her Southwest Airlines flight and can’t remember the last time she has had an empty seat next to her on a flight.
“As small as I am, I felt cramped,” said the petite woman as she waited for a taxi from Los Angeles International Airport.
She went home and wrote an angry song about it.
via Airfares climb, routes disappear as fuel prices rise – latimes.com.
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