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Delta 747 makes emergency landing on remote Pacific island
A Delta Air Lines Boeing 747 diverted to the Pacific Ocean's remote Midway Atoll last week. That came after a "sudden and very serious windscreen crack … (travel.usatoday.com) More...
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Diverted - http://flightaware.com/live/flight/DAL277/history/20110616/2325Z/PHNL/RJBB
Interesting
The pilots just wanted to go on a mini vacation on a remote island lol.
Isn't this the way "Lost" started?
Nobody wants a mechanical issue over the Pacific, in an aircraft which requires serious runway length...and suffers a multiple birdstrike below 500' and that results in flap damage. This was no joke folks and kudos to the crew.
They kept the passengers on board until another plane came from Japan, and then had them change planes.... good grief, Charlie Brown, that is cruel and inhuman treatment of passengers.... oh, this was Delta, never mind, abuse of passengers is normal operating procedure.
