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2008/07/23

Emergency Landing at New Orleans International Airport




What: Continental Flight 458, a Boeing 737 en route from Houston to Washington, D.C Reagan National Airport.
Where: Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport.
When: Tuesday 3:35 p.m
Who: 120 passengers and crew including congressmen:.Reps. Paul, Ted Poe, John Carter, Solomon P. Ortiz, Ciro Rodriguez, Rep. Nick Lampson, and Henry Cuellar.
Why: loss of cabin pressure. The pilot diverted to the closet airport.

Update: The plane began a steep dive half an hour into the flight. Cabin pressure dropped and oxygen masks were deployed. The pilot was able to land safely in New Orleans. There were no injuries. Monday, a US Airways flight and a Northwest Airlines flight were diverted to airports in Kentucky and Wisconsin over cabin pressure issues.

Ironically, the congressmen were trying to get back to Washington in time for a Tuesday night vote on an aviation safety bill.
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