Engine Failure; Delta Boeing Diverts to Ireland
What: Delta Airlines Boeing 757-200 Philadelphia
to Paris
Where: Shannon Ireland
When: November 20, 2010, 6:30 am
Who: 152 passengers 7 crew
Why: While over the Atlantic, the right engine
developed problems. Pilots shut it down, and diverted to
Shannon where they made a safe landing. Passengers were
provided an alternative flight.
I usually try just to get the facts. But when people
read these alerts, it is not just the plane. Like on this
flight. Can you imagine being aboard this flight, over the
Atlantic—as on the infamous Air France Flight 447—and
losing an engine? Can you picture your feelings at the
moment you realize the failure, and every moment
thereafter, until you were safely on the ground? Even with
a capable functioning plane, and competent crew. Even with
the knowledge that the plane could afford to shut down an
engine. Having to sit politely in your row, and believing
on some level, that you were placidly waiting to die while
strapped in like a trapped like a Chilean Miner in a snow
globe hurtling through space toward who knows what fate?
Even if I do not write it, behind these lines, there is
always a human element.
Originally Posted by George Hatcher
Saturday, November 20, 2010