CRJ display/cooling system failure on 4390?
 

Making the news cycle this morning . . . this article on Fox News even has the flight diverting to Houston (it actually diverted to DFW).

Seems to me that professional journalism is dead and buried in our news media :(

https://www.foxnews.com/travel/flyin...reens-go-blank

What’s unprofessional about it?
They had to dumb it down for the average layperson.
Cooling fan failure -> nearest suitable airport

That they had an article title stating that the flight diverted to Houston :rolleyes:

I guess they needed to go more dumb’er....

Anything aviation/airline related is a hot buzzword in the media right now. Before the 2 Max crashes this wouldn’t even have made third tier aviation news websites...

I think the moral of this story is keep your announcements low key— before one of them goes viral.

Professional “journalism” doesn’t exist in the mainstream media, it’s professional “reporting.”

The only reason this made the news is because of the stupidity of the pilot on the PA. Totally unprofessional. “We had to divert due to a mechanical issue” is all that needed to be said. But, now you have a viral video and passengers texting their loved ones about how they almost died because the pilot is blind...

The PA was professional.

Expressjet CRJ? TYS-IAH? Thought that was all ERJ?

Far from it. You don’t ever give passengers that much detailed critical information for obvious reasons. You keep things short and general. I highly doubt ExpressJet recommends what this guy did. United has trained CSR’s to handle these situations with passengers.

Until a month ago it was. Flying is getting chopped up it seems. Some flights out of TYS are being done by Skywest now as well. One big happy family, eh. United must have learned some things from Delta on how to demoralize it's regional pilot groups. Like we needed any other impetus for bad morale.

You keep it short and sweet. No need for worst-case scenarios. Ever.

A/C 909, which had multiple diversions one day a week ago for guess what.....display cool. MX continues to sign it off and send it on its way.

The additional detail may have been unnecessary, but it was also given AFTER landing. It may have well been a decision of the captain in response to questions/upset passengers.

It’s one of those things you could argue over it forever.

That’s the next one slated for retirement per company comms from last week. Might be going to the desert a little sooner.

Perhaps it was already on its way...

I've had some goofy schedule changes recently. A few days ago I got a voicemail from crew scheduling saying a flight had been changed to a CRJ and then later it was changed back. It got awkward because the change was about 24 hours before departure so a bunch of people showed up with seats assigned that didn't exist (like 12B for example). It's possible that flight was swapped off the 145.