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Tuesday, July 22, 2008
EMERGENCY LANDING!
A commuter plane with 14 passengers coming into the Wicomico County Airport called in for an emergency landing tonight stating they had lost power to one engine. It was decided the runway wasn't long enough so they sent the plane off to the Patuxent Airport in Marlboro Maryland, across the Bay. We are still awaiting further information as to how they made out. Hopefully there will be more to come......
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There is no "Patuxent" Airport in
Upper Marlboro. NAS Patuxent River is 45 miles West of Salisbury and an emergency aircraft did NOT land there today. Salisbury has a 5500 ft long runway. If they needed more pavement, they must have gone to BWI.
Look, challenge me all you want, I don't care. This did happen tonight, period. I guess you'll have to see it on the news and or the Daily Times in the next few days to prove I'm correct. Granted, I was told it was Marlboro, Maryland by a reliable source. Call around and ask the right people and stop acting like a fool. They did not go to BWI.
Joe,
You make a great point about hearing or reading news days after it appears @sbynews.com
Sometimes these news items NEVER get in or on other venues.
Thanks for your efforts.
whos the ass at 10:24 - patuxent has a 10,000ft. a 7500ft and a 5000ft. runway, and is where the flight was diverted to. now where they finally landed i don't know, but that is what was reported to the fire departments on the ground. makes no sense to me to take a flight 10 miles from salisbury (its destination) and last minute divert, considering pilot should be able to land with one engine - but what do i know.
I work at Patuxent and know for a fact that it did not land here. Rwy 6/24 is 11,807 feet long, rwy 14/32 is 9742 ft and 2/20 is a little over 5000 ft. (for annon1042)
I wasn't trying to challange you Joe, only trying to figure where it could have landed.
There aren't many airports in the area that have more than the 5500 ft that SBY has.
Del has Wilmington, Dover and Georgetown (5000ft)
Maryland has Martin state 6996 ft, Patuxent, BWI, and Hagerstown.
Virginia has Wallops 8749 ft
Aircraft with an engine out do not typically fly around bye passing good pavement. Just random thoughts from an air traffic controller.
Are you sure you're not the habitual JR? You claim to work at that airport. Do tell everyone how you just happened to come to Salisbury News?
While you're sorting things out with the (possible) air traffic controller, can you tell us that the plane landed safely? I don't want to wait the two or three days until this news might make it into the msm here in good 'ol sby.
Joe,
I e mailed you with the Cat converter info last week. I was an air traffic controller for NASA at Walloops for 3 years and at Salisbury for the last 9 years.
Just moved west of the bay 4 months ago. I followed your blog since the article about the shrink wrapped car in the airport parking lot. Drop me a note on my e mail if you want to confirm.
I wasn't trying to be a smart ass with my replies. I don't know much about the politics of Salisbury but I do know about airplanes.
Joe the gentleman is correct. The plane never landed at Pax River. Although, the last you heard on the scanner was the plane was heading towards Pax river
GulfstreamIII N918BG Departed KPBI (Palm Beach) Bound for KFRG (Republic on long ISland) Diverted its flight plan at about 2048L for the inflight bound for KSBY. (salisbury) However, at 2058L the a/c chose to goto KBWI and landed 17mins later at 2115L.
well what's ironic about this is the folks on the plane were on the way to a seminar on airline safety!!!!!!
The biggest problem with this so called newsite is that on a lot of instances you "report" "news" and and never go back and correct it when you get the full scoop. I know you have another post up regarding this and that is great. How abou trying to report the facts and not the first thing you hear?
This plane N918BG, a charter Gulfstream G-III operated by AC Aviation Services and Century Jets of Nashua NH. Dropped 15000 feet in three minutes!! One engine failure would not cause this!
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