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Southwest flight makes emergency landing at Sacramento International

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Rescue firefighters responded to a Southwest Airlines flight in distress after two tires blew on the runway Tuesday evening, leaving the jet and its passengers grounded. The left main tires blew at about 6:15 p.m. as Southwest flight 2287 was departing for Seattle, Sacramento International Airport spokeswoman Laurie Slothower said. Southwest Airlines spokeswoman Katie McDonald said the pilot quickly aborted the takeoff and emergency crews were called in to hose down the 737… (www.washingtonpost.com) More...

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mschacht44
Mike Schacht 0
I heard there was 2 incidents at Sacramento involving Southwest:

1 Was this one: http://avherald.com/h?article=448644d4&opt=0

And

2 And another one: http://www.news10.net/news/local/article/169996/2/Southwest-Airlines-has-2nd-emergency-at-Sac-Intl--
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dtw757
mike SUT 0
It just looked like he took off due to the usually excessive taxi speed in getting to the runway. Since they are paid for flight time, he is leaving a (news)paper trail, hoping no in payroll will read the article, only the headline.
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onceastudentpilot
tim mitchell 0
weeeelll....usually whenever you can see the cords in the tires it usually time to change them
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dbrooks84
David Brooks 0
I concur with that too.
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preacher1
preacher1 0
2 questions here: Why the negative comments about the Pilot? AND, why would 1 runway still be closed for a couple of blown tires. Inspect it, sweep it, open it.?????????????

EMERGENCY LANDING makes a better headline than ABORTED TAKEOFF.lol
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THRUSTT
THRUSTT 0
The sarcasm wasn't for the pilot, it's for the news reporting...
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preacher1
preacher1 0
I gathered that.lol. I just couldn't grasp the comment above about the newspaper trail and payroll. I guess I'm feeling dense today.
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THRUSTT
THRUSTT 0
I think he was saying he only way to get paid is to takeoff, and hoping corporate doesn't see that they didn't actually takeoff. I had to read it twice before I got it.
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preacher1
preacher1 0
oh
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dbrooks84
David Brooks 0
Not to be driving in a nail - but the headline did not say EMERGENCY LANDING. It said "Emergency Response".

I guess the inspection of the runway would also look to see if there were any runway damage such as gouge in the surface if the 737 ran on rims or less. I have see those kind of problems and the airport is going to have to determine if it has to be repair or not. I don't know if that is the situation here.
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preacher1
preacher1 0
David: I missed that and you are very correct, but this FLIGHT AWARE post does say landing
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dbrooks84
David Brooks 0
That is correct Wayne. That wording "emergency landing" evokes responses in people. When posting titles, anyone should take just sometime and verify the title reflects the subject correctly. That is why I jumped on the Falconus's first post. I guess there is a lesson here for all (me too).
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Pileits
Pileits 0
Um DUH, I thought tires were BLACK not Blew.
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HunterTS4
Toby Sharp 0
LMAO
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THRUSTT
THRUSTT 0
Thank goodness the lone pilot was able to abort that takeoff and safely make an emergency landing all the while proclaiming mayday mayday mayday under the stress of being in distress...
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THRUSTT
THRUSTT 0
There's another candidate for the administrator's position...
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Falconus
Falconus 0
Question: how is it an emergency landing if it never took off?
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dbrooks84
David Brooks 0
The title of the article does not say emergency landing. "Southwest flight’s tires blow causing emergency response at Sacramento airport; no one injured" is the headline.

They used "emergency response" in the article and title.
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THRUSTT
THRUSTT 0
The Flightaware one says landing, so I guess the error is on whoever posted it...
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linbb
linbb 0
The way some post on here you are asking that question?? I dont think that some of the posters have all there eggs in the basket.
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