MD-88 Emergency Landing here in SC..

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GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) -- A Delta Air Lines plane has made an emergency landing at a South Carolina airport after reports of smoke in the cockpit.


Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport spokeswoman Rosylin Weston says the Delta Air Lines flight landed safely just before 5 p.m. Thursday.

Weston says the MD88 was diverted to the airport just before 5 p.m. after reporting smoke in the cockpit. She didn't know where the plane was headed, or where it had come from.

Weston says the 146 passengers and crew members got off the plane safely.

It's not known what caused the problem. Weston says there will be a full investigation.


Delta Plane Makes Emergency Landing in SC | wltx.com (http://www.wltx.com/news/story.aspx?storyid=68608&catid=2)

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Untitled Page (http://www.ntsb.gov/aviationquery/brief2.aspx?ev_id=20081215X14936&ntsbno=DCA09IA018&akey=1)

It includes some interesting points:

-- repeats that same old lesson for PILOTS, re' the Electrical Fire Checklist (both Generators OFF), BLOWN TIRES upon Lndg, Brake FIRE, Evac';

-- smoke "pouring out" below F/O's Instrument Panel;

-- "depressurization" passing 10000' cleared smoke.

P.C. = DCA09IA018 (http://www.ntsb.gov/aviationquery/brief.aspx?ev_id=20081215X14936&key=1)
Lesson for investigators: get someone to proof-read your final product -->[from P.C., bottom of first paragraph]
"...Four tires on the left main gear burst on touchdown ..."

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Just have to comment on how it annoys me that journalists constantly refer to aircraft as "being diverted"; as if the pilots does not fit into the equation.