Relevant only from the part about one airline diverting and the other not
3. Inaccurate...I think another airlines narrow body hit some trees in that part of the world some years ago and got away with it..not much in the news about it. To my knowledge there was not a US Air incident at KBDL in recent memory. Please if relevant supply the links.
Thanks.
Flown-it.
I was aboard the UAL flight coming from ORD-BDL and I assure you we did not divert or abort even though we used the same approach over the tree line. We bumped around some (always fun at low altitude)
The only difference was that we did not descend below MDH. I saw the AA MD80 the next day in the hangar and it was an eye opener to see the tree branches stuck in the belly skin lap joints.