Delta flight from Boston makes emergency landing in Denver

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A Delta Airlines plane made an emergency landing Friday night in Denver after hail cracked the front windshield and punched the nose cone, terrifying passengers who screamed and cried.

"There were times when we felt like the air dropped out from under us. We could see lightning spider-webbing over the wings and hail pounding the plane," said passenger Beau Sorensen of Provo, Utah.

The Airbus A320 was diverted and landed safely at Denver International Airport at 8:42 p.m., according to Ian McGregor, an FAA spokesman.

Delta Flight 1889 was en route from Boston to Salt Lake City International Airport when it was pelted by hail, according to McGregor.

Sorensen said the plane flew through a powerful thunderstorm in Nebraska near the Colorado border.

The turbulence battered the plane, shaking it sideways and up and down, bouncing like a cork on a rough sea, Sorensen said. The plane dropped 14,000 feet in altitude over a two-minute time span.

"Babies were crying. Some young teens behind me were screaming and crying," Sorensen said.

As shaken as passengers were, they could not see the damage the storm had done to the nose of the plane. As suddenly as the storm struck, it was over. Almost immediately, the plane veered more sharply south.

Emergency vehicles surrounded the plane after it landed and came to a stop on the tarmac. One older woman was attended by paramedics.

"I think it was more stress and anxiety than anything," Sorensen said.

After they climbed off the plane, some 130 passengers stood near the window in amazement at how much damage was done to the front of the plane, he said. They and flight attendants took pictures of the cone. One attendant said it was her worst flight in 30 years of working as a flight attendant.

"Delta should give the pilot of my flight a sizable bonus for saving our butts," Sorensen wrote on Twitter. "Glad to be alive."

The FAA will investigate the incident.

Passengers were then flown to Salt Lake City on another plane, Delta spokeswoman Liz Savadelis said.

"The safety of our customers and crew is always our top priority," she said.

Sorensen said some children who were on the plane refused to get on another plane, and their parents rented cars and drove to Salt Lake City.

A team of Delta maintenance workers is evaluating the extent of the damage to the plane, Savadelis said.
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http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_28607221/delta-flight-from-boston-makes-emergency-landing-denver
 
Wow, that must have been a flight from hell! Sure wouldn't have wanted to be on that one, double yikes, yikes!
I'd probably be the old lady that had to be attended to by paramedics, anxiety would have caused me a heart attack for sure.
 
Annie09Z said:
Wow, that must have been a flight from hell! Sure wouldn't have wanted to be on that one, double yikes, yikes!
I'd probably be the old lady that had to be attended to by paramedics, anxiety would have caused me a heart attack for sure.
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I would had been going this :Ohno: ! LOL ! I once took a small plane to Maine with my daughter and that was a :Ohno: moment for me .
 
The pilots did great job landing this plane with the obstruction on the windshield as well as the damage to the nose. Going to take quite a while to repair the damage.
 
All I can say is OMG OMG OMG OMG!!!!! I've had a few rough flights but this one would have been the end of flying for me.
 
Angel1989 said:
All I can say is OMG OMG OMG OMG!!!!! I've had a few rough flights but this one would have been the end of flying for me. I hate flying but will be doing it again soon.
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I can remember when I was flying from the West coast to the East coast and the captain came out of the cockpit and walked over my seat to look out my window at the wing . I am glad this was not on the wing !

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We had to land at another airport b/c an engine light came on which could had meant we lost an engine .
 
Safest place in the plane is in the back...planes never back into mountains...
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I hate flying but these days only way get from A to B
 
My worst flight, happened to also be my very first flight, was a connecter, small plane, in Oregon. Pilot couldn't find the airport in the fog, we flew around and around and up and down for quite a bit. Finally turned around in another direction and landed in Eugene, I think it was. Bused to our destination.

That time I wasn't anxious, it being my first trip in a small plane, I thought all was normal!!! :lol:
 
I'm sure there is transatlantic cruises out there but more expensive than flying.
 
Article said the FAA was going to investigate....wonder what they will glean from it....
 
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