SkyWest smoke in cabin
05-01-2017 | 07:19 PM
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05-01-2017 | 09:38 PM
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Just curious... is it SOP at Skywest to taxi around, wasting valuable minutes after landing, while you have indications of a fire inside your aircraft?
Plane from O?Hare makes emergency landing at DuPage County Airport | WGN-TV
Plane from O?Hare makes emergency landing at DuPage County Airport | WGN-TV
05-02-2017 | 06:42 AM
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You're a moron.
1) There was never a fire on board, it was oil that leaked into one of the PACKs.
2) SkyWest SOP is to stop and evaluate the situation before acting rashly, like dumping 50+ people out onto an active runway/taxiway without first assessing the situation.
3) After the crew evaluated the source of the smoke, and deemed the likelihood of an active fire onboard to be remote, they opted to orderly deplane the pax. There was never an evacuation, because there was no need for one. An evacuation would entail all 4 exits, including the overwing exits, and galley service door.
1) There was never a fire on board, it was oil that leaked into one of the PACKs.
2) SkyWest SOP is to stop and evaluate the situation before acting rashly, like dumping 50+ people out onto an active runway/taxiway without first assessing the situation.
3) After the crew evaluated the source of the smoke, and deemed the likelihood of an active fire onboard to be remote, they opted to orderly deplane the pax. There was never an evacuation, because there was no need for one. An evacuation would entail all 4 exits, including the overwing exits, and galley service door.
05-02-2017 | 06:49 AM
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It is never a good idea to unnecessarily evacuate an aircraft outside of ramp areas, whether or not the runway or taxiway is shut down. You are correct, they will shut down and isolate a runway or taxiway when an emergency aircraft lands on it, but unless your airport only has one of both of those, it will continue to operate on the other runways. Once the paranoid passengers start the evacuation, many will just start running away to get as far away as possible. There is no one out there to direct them and many, confused, will just start heading toward the nearest buildings. Now you have people scattered across the airport trying to get to the nearest building. It is FAR more dangerous than a ramp area.
05-02-2017 | 11:29 AM
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Handled like true professionals.
Incident: Skywest CRJ2 at Chicago on May 1st 2017, cargo smoke, smoke in cockpit and cabin
Incident: Skywest CRJ2 at Chicago on May 1st 2017, cargo smoke, smoke in cockpit and cabin
By Simon Hradecky, created Monday, May 1st 2017 21:45Z, last updated Tuesday, May 2nd 2017 14:54Z
A Skywest Canadair CRJ-200 on behalf of American Airlines, registration N866AS performing flight OO-2936/AA-2936 from Chicago O'Hare,IL to Cedar Rapids,IA (USA) with 51 passengers and 3 crew, was climbing out of Chicago when the crew donned their oxygen masks, stopped the climb at 6000 feet reporting cargo smoke and diverted to Chicago DuPage Airport for a safe landing about 10 minutes after departure. The crew requested to turn into the wind after landing, then advised they had been discharging fire agent into the cargo bay and requested fire services to inspect the cargo bay. Following emergency services reporting not seeing any smoke the aircraft continued to the terminal, passengers disembarked normally via stairs. Fire Fighters subsequently reported they could smell smoke.
Passengers reported almost immediately after becoming airborne haze occurred in the cabin, the flight attendant initially attempted to calm them down advising this was only mist, however there was also a clear smell of smoke. Shortly thereafter the passengers noticed the aircraft was maneouvering to land.
The FAA reported the aircraft diverted to DuPage Airport reporting smoke in the cockpit.
The remainder of the flight was cancelled.
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/S...330Z/KORD/KCID
Incident: Skywest CRJ2 at Chicago on May 1st 2017, cargo smoke, smoke in cockpit and cabin
Incident: Skywest CRJ2 at Chicago on May 1st 2017, cargo smoke, smoke in cockpit and cabin
By Simon Hradecky, created Monday, May 1st 2017 21:45Z, last updated Tuesday, May 2nd 2017 14:54Z
A Skywest Canadair CRJ-200 on behalf of American Airlines, registration N866AS performing flight OO-2936/AA-2936 from Chicago O'Hare,IL to Cedar Rapids,IA (USA) with 51 passengers and 3 crew, was climbing out of Chicago when the crew donned their oxygen masks, stopped the climb at 6000 feet reporting cargo smoke and diverted to Chicago DuPage Airport for a safe landing about 10 minutes after departure. The crew requested to turn into the wind after landing, then advised they had been discharging fire agent into the cargo bay and requested fire services to inspect the cargo bay. Following emergency services reporting not seeing any smoke the aircraft continued to the terminal, passengers disembarked normally via stairs. Fire Fighters subsequently reported they could smell smoke.
Passengers reported almost immediately after becoming airborne haze occurred in the cabin, the flight attendant initially attempted to calm them down advising this was only mist, however there was also a clear smell of smoke. Shortly thereafter the passengers noticed the aircraft was maneouvering to land.
The FAA reported the aircraft diverted to DuPage Airport reporting smoke in the cockpit.
The remainder of the flight was cancelled.
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/S...330Z/KORD/KCID
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