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*** CONTINENTAL AIRLINES ***
0006/06JAN
P GUM/OUT 1247P E00.13 )
P GUM/OFF 106P )
P NRT/ON 343P )
P NRT/IN 353P L00.08 )
P NRT/OUT 459P E00.06 )
P NRT/OFF 526P )
P MDY/ON 253A )
P MDY/IN 310A L00.55 )
P MDY/OUT 230A
P MDY/OFF 0000A )
P IAH/ETA 0000A )*
P IAH/OFF 355P )
F IAH/ETA 313P L25.28
P SAT/ON 432P )
P SAT/IN 438P L00.13 )
D CRC/DIVERTED TO MIDWAY ISLAND DUE TO MX
D FCF/OPTG IAH-SAT AS ADV SECT 5006 IN FOMS/COSMOS ONLY
SKED GUM ORIG 100P GTD 10 SHIP 228
NRT 345P 505P GTA D99 GTD D97 SHIP 4
IAH 145P 330P GTA D-4 GTD C-31 SHIP 834
On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, David Mueller wrote:
> SOURCE: Honolulu Star-Bulletin
> http://starbulletin.com/breaking/breaking.php?id=3D2255
>
> Continental Airlines flight lands at Midway
>
> Emergency landing "without incident"
>
> Continental Airlines Flight 6 from Japan to Houston with 294 people on
> board made an emergency landing =93without incident=94 at the airfield on
> Midway Atoll=92s Sand Island early this morning.
>
> At 3:10 this morning the crew of the fully-loaded Boeing 777 noticed low
> oil pressure and =93as a precautionary measure they diverted to Midway,=
=94
> said Julie King, a spokesperson for Continental.
>
> King said there were no injuries to passengers or damage suffered to the
> plane during the landing.
>
> A maintenance engineer, who happened to be on board the flight that had
> left Japan=92s Narita Airport bound nonstop for Houston, inspected the
> plane and found it needed a new starter, said King.
>
> Continental has flown a new starter from Honolulu along with a
> maintenance crew and extra box lunches to feed the 279 passengers and 15
> crew.
>
> King said the repairs should be made and the plane ready to leave by 9
> p.m. HST today. The flight between Narita and Houston is about 11 hours
> and 40 minutes, she said.
>
> King said the passengers were offloaded and were being entertained with
> tours of the island that has 1.5 million seabirds.
>
> =93They=92ll have lots of albatross to look at, if nothing else,=94 said
> Barbara Maxfield, a spokesperson for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
> which operates the Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge.
>
> Maxfield said that the airfield continues to be in operation even though
> the former military site has been converted into a wildlife refuge. She
> said the last commercial aircraft to land there was an Aloha Airlines
> charter carrying supplies. The last emergency landing of a commercial
> aircraft on the atoll was Sept. 4.
>
> --
> David Mueller / MRY
> dmueller7@xxxxxxxxx
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