What: Chicago-bound United Airlines flight 158
Where: San Francisco International Airport
When: August 23, 2008 thirty minutes after takeoff
Who: 240 Passengers and nine crew members. No injuries.
Why: After one of its engine compressors stalled, the pilot turned the plane around and returned to the airport, flying on the aircraft's second engine. Smoke came into the cabin after the plane landed and the engines were shut down. Good job, Pilot.
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actually the news about this post is incorrect. UA is downplaying the incident. There was a fire in the left engine. I don't know if a compressor causes a fire...but a fire happened nonetheless. The smoke filled the plane almost immediately. The pilot came on after about a minute of alarms and smoke saying "there was an equipment failure and we would be landing at SFO in 6 minutes". I assure you as a passenger, those were the longest 6 minutes of my life.
The notion of flying in the second engine I would question as well. It sounded like they shut down the second engine. The flight was silent once the alarms were turned off. If felt and sounded like we were gliding. I imagine the second engine was just on very low power/thrust because it wasn't making any noise.
We do appreciate the correction. We saw the buzz online that UA was downplaying the incident; it is one of the reasons we made sure to post what news we had. And again, we do commend the pilot, because it sounds like a miracle that you made it thru the flight alive.
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