"Two days before the emergency landing, the same plane experienced a compressor stall while in flight. Passengers aboard the flight that left LaGuardia Airport on Jan. 13 reported hearing loud bangs from the right side of the plane. A short time later the situation appeared to return to normal and the flight continued on to Charlotte, N.C.
Uh-oh!! So the COVER STORY is BIRDS, huh?
The compressor is essentially a fan that draws air into the engine and helps create thrust for the jet. A compressor stall is a situation of abnormal air flow resulting from a stall of the blades within the compressor. Compressor stalls can vary in severity from a momentary engine power drop to a complete loss of compression, requiring a reduction in fuel flow to the engine.
The stall will no doubt be looked at as the investigation moves forward, but pilots and aviation specialists have said they doubt the malfunction made the plane more vulnerable to the bird strikes that are believed to have imperiled the Airbus A320....
Well, when I see ZERO PILOTS challenging the RIDICULOUS 9/11 story, forgive me for the skepticism. Looks like someone is trying to AVOID a LAWSUIT!
Several specialists said that a compressor stall in one engine generally doesn't create much of a problem and is unlikely to have factored into the later crash-landing. They added that the engine likely would have been closely analyzed before the plane was cleared to fly again.
Related: Big Old Jet Airliner
Back at it again today; the MSM sure is working hard to convince you it was birds, aren't they -- just like jet fuel felling 110-story towers, right? And they didn't lie about TWA 800 either!
It gets tiresome after a while. You can't believe a damn thing they print because it is all some distorted, agenda-pushing piece of garbage!
Related: Boston Globe Bird S***
Boston Hates Birds
"Database review suggests bird-airliner incidents common; NASA data show aborted takeoffs, diverted landings" by Joan Lowy, Associated Press | February 1, 2009
WASHINGTON - Commercial airline crews reported more than two dozen emergency landings, aborted takeoffs, or other disturbing incidents because of collisions with birds in the past two years, according to a confidential database managed by NASA.
An Associated Press review of reports filed voluntarily with NASA's Aviation Safety Reporting System show that bird-airliner encounters happen frequently, though none as dramatic as the one involving a US Airways jet that ditched safely into the Hudson River on Jan. 15 because a run-in with birds took out both of its engines.
Since January 2007, at least 26 serious bird-strikes were reported. In some of them, the aircraft's brakes caught fire or cabins and cockpits filled with smoke and the stench of burning birds. Engines failed and fan blades broke. In one case, a bird-strike left a 12-inch hole in the wing of a
From 1990 to 2007, there were nearly 80,000 reported incidents of birds striking nonmilitary aircraft, about one strike for every 10,000 flights, according to the Federal Aviation Administration and the Agriculture Department. Those numbers are based on voluntary reports, which aviation safety specialists say almost certainly underestimate the size of the problem and fail to convey the severity of some occurrences....
Funny how we never heard about the "threat" and "urgency" it until now.
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The Cost of a Cover Story
You KNOW who PAYS for that, don't you?
YOU DO, citizen -- in LOST FREEDOM and LOST MONEY!
