Denver | George Hatcher's Air Flight Disaster https://airflightdisaster.com Aviation News, Headlines & Alerts Fri, 21 Jan 2011 20:32:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 Cracked Windshield on takeoff https://airflightdisaster.com/cracked-windshield-on-takeoff/ Fri, 21 Jan 2011 20:30:38 +0000 http://airflightdisaster.com/?p=14077 This is the weather for cracked windshields. One almost wonders if maintenance crews are using hot water on that cold glass in Denver. We see: Denver: Skywest CRJ7-Cracked windshield Denver: Skywest CRJ12-Cracked windshield Denver: B752-Cracked windshield Cold makes glass more brittle so that it can crack more easily without additional stresses. We also have: Valdosta:...

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]]> This is the weather for cracked windshields. One almost wonders if maintenance crews are using hot water on that cold glass in Denver.
We see:

Denver: Skywest CRJ7-Cracked windshield
Denver: Skywest CRJ12-Cracked windshield
Denver: B752-Cracked windshield

Cold makes glass more brittle so that it can crack more easily without additional stresses. We also have:

Valdosta: PSA CRJ7 Cracked windshield

Do think that PSA flight flew from Charlotte NC to Tallahassee by way of Denver?

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]]> Continental Boeing Crashes and Burns on Takeoff https://airflightdisaster.com/continental-boeing-crashes-and-burns-on-takeoff/ Sun, 21 Dec 2008 13:27:06 +0000 http://airflightdisaster.com/?p=1760 What: Continental Airlines Boeing 737 flight 1404 Denver to Houston Registration N18611 Where: Denver International Airport on runway 34 Right When: 20 DEC 2008 18:18 local time Who: 107 passengers 5 crew (at least 38 injured, nothing life-threatening) Ten passengers were taken to Denver Health. 15 passengers were taken to the Medical Center of Aurora....

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What: Continental Airlines Boeing 737 flight 1404 Denver to Houston Registration N18611
Where: Denver International Airport on runway 34 Right
When: 20 DEC 2008 18:18 local time
Who: 107 passengers 5 crew (at least 38 injured, nothing life-threatening) Ten passengers were taken to Denver Health. 15 passengers were taken to the Medical Center of Aurora. University Hospital in Aurora took in eight. Four passengers were taken to Swedish Hospital
Why: The plane suffered a runway excursion at runway 34R during takeoff, slid into a ditch and caught fire after the crash. The #1 engine separated from the wing and the undercarriage collapsed. There was a 31 knot (36 mph) crosswind.
Passengers debarked on emergency slides as the plane burned. 38 people were taken to 4 Denver hospitals with injuries ranging from broken bones to bumps and bruises. Fire burned the right side of the plane. Two patients at University of Colorado Hospital initially listed in fair condition were downgraded to critical condition with fractures.

By the time the passengers had evacuated, the fire had spread inside and started melting the luggage compartments.

Debris remained on the runway, with the plane about 200 yards away and its landing gear and left engine shorn off.

The plane’s first flight was 1994-05-31.It has 2 CFMI CFM56-3C1 engines.

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