bernouli

Good job crew. Everybody's alive and they made it to Chicago...well, west Chicago.


Regional jet makes emergency landing at DuPage - Chicago Tribune

Flightcap

Any further info? Flight control issues would seem to merit more attention than what this story has gotten.

Larry in TN

Any info on what failed? Stuck spoilers?

mosteam3985

Slap a couple fedoras on those fellas and you have the blues brothers. The FO (I assume that's him off the CA's left shoulder) could pass for John Belushi!

sandlapper223

Yet another evac on the runway! I guess the aircraft was too damaged/unsafe to taxi to the ramp.

Bilsch

I would think the only reason to leave it on the runway may be due to a hyd problem? Maybe that is what led to the flight control issue?

More info needed...

80ktsClamp

The exits weren't popped... not an evac.

Flightcap

Yeah, I remember watching the video that everyone seemed calm and the stairs were the only opened exit. Definitely a collected, organized evac if it could be called that. More like a deplaning.

sandlapper223

Ok fine. What do you call it when you dump everyone on the runway? And there are no "popped" on a CRJ. There are only two doors and two over wing exits.

So again, I apologize because I wasn't there, but why "expeditiously deplane" or evac on the damn runway? Is this the result of the emergency landing checklist that automatically culminates in dumping pax on the runway? JetBlue after an engine failure and now this.

Unless there is something I'm missing, why couldn't this A/C be taxied or towed off the runway with everyone safely in their seats?

Our SOP states, after landing and "if emergency evacuation required" complete the evac checklist. This is of course PIC decision, so I'm questioning why the PIC made these decisions. Again, I wasn't there, but looking at the survivability of staying on board in both cases looked safe and prudent to me.

80ktsClamp

Looks like it was a leisurely deplaning to me...not even expeditious . Everyone had their purses and backpacks, and only the MCB was opened. There may not have been a tug readily available to tow the disabled aircraft off the runway, and it looks like a nice day.