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Southwest Airlines Flight Aborts Takeoff After Loud Noise

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A Southwest Airlines flight scheduled from Burbank to Las Vegas aborted takeoff this evening due to an unusual noise heard from one of the engines. (www.sacbee.com) More...

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HunterTS4
Toby Sharp 4
41 Pax!?!!
preacher1
preacher1 2
Kinda like you, 1/2 full??????????????????????????
HunterTS4
Toby Sharp 3
1/2 Empty Mr. Wayne
Kawaiipoint2
Kawaiipoint2 3
more like less than a 1/3...
preacher1
preacher1 1
Toby: I'll take the optimist side.lol but Will's comment here below is probably closer to correct, especially on the newer versions. At any rate, there weren't near enough people. That is probably just a standard reposition move for them to feed their hub at KLAS.
acmi
acmi 4
I was on a CO DC10-30 going out of HNL when the blew the compressor in the tail engine. Scared the crxp out of me and about 150 other folks..but as below, not too serious a problem...
bovineone
Jeff Lawson 1
Flight history for SWA2911 -- http://flightaware.com/live/flight/SWA2911/history/20120528/2235Z/KBUR/KLAS
bishops90
Brian Bishop 1
80% likely a compressor stall. Not common but can be scary as hell sounding. Not a real danger though. Just like when your old Dodge truck backfires when it's cold.
mpradel
Marcus Pradel 1
1 out of every 200 take-offs is aborted for one reason or another.. hardly a news story.
rick737
richard weiss 1
1 out every 200 take-offs is aborted? Where did you get that data. For one, I flew for 40 years and aborted 3 take-offs.
preacher1
preacher1 1
I guess I must be like Richard here and well on the low side of that average. I flew for about 35 and can only remember 2-3 and I don't think any of them were due to an engine problem.
wx1996
wx1996 1
Is this stat for commercial flights or all aviation? I find it hard to believe this is accurate for commercial flights?

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Cannikin
Cannikin 1
As opposed to say, like, American where you never get what you pay for?
rick737
richard weiss 1
"jerk" a quote from John McCain

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