AA Aircraft Serious Incident at ORD

[EZEtoGRU]

Happening now:

 

http://www.airliners.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1346425

 

Quite the fire. Looks like slides deployed and hoping everyone got out OK. In one pic, you can see all the passengers by the runway.

[rvwnsd]

LA Times reported all passengers evacuated safely, although NBC Chicago reports 8 injured. Glad it happened on the runway and not on takeoff. No one wants a repeat of flight 191 - the infamous AA DC10 disaster in the 1970's.

 

Still remember seeing the smoke from my front yard. Scary.

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I so admire the travelers who can just shrug off an incident like that and board another plane. If I ever experience an airline mishap, they can just skip the ambulance and send a hearse.

[+ Charlie]

Many years ago I was involved in a crash landing at an intermediate stop on a cross country trip, and managed to escape with nothing but the ruin of a good pair of shoes by the flame retardant sprayed around the plane while evacuating. Six hours later, I was on another flight, and then another, before I finally got home exhausted only a few hours before I had to go to work. My luggage got re-routed and lost, and didn't show up--somewhat battered--for two more days. That bothered me more than the original accident. But I refused to fly that airline for years afterwards.