Saturday, July 30, 2011
BREAKING NEWS: Caribbean Airlines crash-lands at Guyana's airport
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A major disaster was somehow avoided when a Caribbean Airlines jet early Saturday morning ran off the runway on landing at Guyana's Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) and broke into two.There were no fatalities. Health minister Dr. Leslie Ramsammy told Demerara Waves Online News (www.demwaves ) at the CJIA that the most serious injuries were a broken leg and a mouth bleed.
Reports say there were 154 passengers and eight crew members aboard Flight BW 523 which connected from New York to Florida to Port of Spain. The incident occurred around 1.25 AM while the flight had been expected since 9.45 PM Friday.
Firefighters, soldiers, police and officials from the Guyana Civil Aviation Authority are currently on the scene.
Private hospitals had been placed on alert in keeping with a disaster response plan but were subsequently demobilised.
Geeta Ramsingh was seated in the first row of economy class in Seat 8E.
Geeta Ramsingh awaiting her luggage
"He touched down with a force. The touch was unusual and the plane took off with a speed. Some people clapped and some people started hollering when they smell the gas," said the Guyana-born US citizen who resides in Pennsylvania.
Ramsingh,who recently underwent a major intestinal surgery, said when she jumped off the wing and landed someone else jumped on her and she sustained a bruised knee. She also said her abdomen was feeling shaken.
"We are very very thankful and grateful that there are no deaths. They have to make a decision on reopening the airport," President Bharrat Jagdeo said at CJIA.
The plane, a Boeing 737-800, which the airline reportedly began leasing in April from Ireland-based Macquarie AirFinance, was broken in two.
A Georgetown Public Hospital official told demwaves.com that passengers were coming in to the Accident and Emergency Unit by the bus loads but confirmed there were no serious injuries.
The official said additional doctors had been called in and that everyone was being checked out.
It remains unclear how long the airport will remain closed.
Meanwhile, Caribbean Airlines in a statement on its website said the incident occurred at approximately 1.32 AM.
"Caribbean Airlines immediately activated its emergency response programme and is in direct contact with the relevant authorities. The airline’s primary concern at this time is for those on board the aircraft and their families," it read.
The airline is expected to hold a press briefing at 7 AM in the VIP lounge at Trinidad's Piarco International Airport.
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July 31, 2011 at 4:13 AM
This a/c breakup is a known Boeing manufacturing issue where their structural bear straps were not manufactured to specification by sub vendor Ducommon. The straps were hand machined outside required dimensional limits due vendor not using design requirement of precision machine computerised tooling. This is the fourth a/c in 3 years breaking up due to this design defect. This would cost Boeing $ millions and send the company broke - US govt and FAA intervened to try to suppress problem.
In US COURTS and being deferred . Hundreds of 737-800 a/c impacted but airlines working secretly with Boeing as no airline wants to admit openly fleet unsafe. Why isn't the US media and the many affected airlines openly discussing concern. If you're Boeing, you realize you have a multi-billion dollar liability on your hands that will bankrupt your company 10 times over if you actually had to tear apart and inspect or rebuild all the suspect aircraft. So, you bury the reports, fire anyone involved, call in all your favors and unleash your lawyers with all the political power you have as a major defense contractor to make it all go away. (The program suggested that's exactly what they were doing).
If you're the government, you realize that one of your biggest defense suppliers has a problem that could bankrupt them and jeopardize the delivery of multi-billion dollar aircraft and weapons programs -- as well as put hundreds of thousands of Americans out of work. You shake your head, call them idiots in a scathing private email to their CEO and then help them clear their name by closing all investigations and declining all further comment.
How do concerned passenger obtain assurance that the FAA has implimented fleetwide checks and corrections to avert further catastophic aircraft failures that have now been observed on 4 aircraft . Do we have to have more injuries and deaths before the FAA and Boeing instigate the necessary grounding and subject aircraft to structural repairs or do we wait for inflight fatigue failure as the affected aircraft age.
September 3, 2011 at 11:10 AM
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