From: "Mark Panitz" <mrpanitz@xxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, April 10, 2006 12:47 AM > WN Sued/MDW > > >>COOK COUNTY -- The family of a 6-year-old Indiana boy >>killed in >>The lawsuit, filed in Cook County Circuit Court, >>alleges negligence >>against Southwest for failing to properly assess the >>poor weather >>conditions and not diverting the plane to another >>airport, among other >>claims. > > this makes wonder what airports could WN diverted to > on that day? (yes I think they could have diverted to > ORD but would they have the same weather? > also did they have engough fuel? to divert? > > also was that flight continuing onto another city? The landing was made in snow with a 25 knot tailwind. Using the same runway the other direction might have solved the problem. There must be a lot of airports within reserve distance in addition to ORD. There was negligence enough to pass around to everyone involved, probably excepting Boeing.. Gerry http://www.pbase.com/gfoley9999/ http://www.wilowud.net/ http://home.columbus.rr.com/gfoley http://www.fortunecity.com/victorian/pollock/263/egypt/egypt.html http://foley.foleypages.net/~gerry/