Dr. Paul's flight made an emergency landing last night. By Rhino
Posted July 23rd, 2008 by rhino
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HOUSTON -- A Continental Airlines flight carrying seven members of Congress from Houston to Washington was forced to make an emergency landing after it lost cabin pressure Tuesday afternoon.
Flight 458 was bound for Reagan National Airport, but was diverted and landed safely in New Orleans, a spokeswoman for U.S. Rep. Ted Poe told 11 News.
Poe and fellow Texas Congressmen Nick Lampson, Ron Paul, John Carter, Ciro Rodriguez, Solomon Ortiz and Henry Cuellar were aboard the flight, said Poe's press secretary DeeAnn Thigpen.
Ironically, the seven congressmen were trying to get back in time for a Tuesday night vote on an aviation safety bill, a spokesman for one of the representatives said.
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Here’s something else. The glitch didn’t fail. What “failed” was the oxygen masks came down and told everybody to put them on. Had they not come down, no one would have known that cabin pressure had been lost and everyone would have fallen gently asleep including the pilots, air marshalls, et. al. That was what was supposed to happenl. The plane would have then flown on until it ran out of fuel and crashed. Period.
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Poe told 11 News the flight was about an hour late leaving Houston because of mechanical difficulties with an engine. He said things went downhill from there not long after taking off from Bush Intercontinental Airport.
"Suddenly, we started to descend more rapidly than normal and the oxygen masks came out," Poe said.
The pilots told everyone to fasten their seatbelts.
"There wasn't any talk because a lot of people had their oxygen masks on," according to Poe. "Everyone seemed to be quite calm."
The flight landed about 20 minutes after the scare began.
"You're thinking of everything, of course. You're thinking of all the possibilities," Poe told 11 News. "But the pilots did a great job of getting us down. And when we got down we saw all the fire trucks on the runway, just like in the movies."
For Poe and the others, it was an unforgettable experience.
"It was exciting to say the least," Poe said. "Glad to see that landing gear come down."
The cause of the loss of cabin pressure will be investigated.
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