Pete Muntean
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Breaking - UPS and FedEx trucks carrying the first U.S. shipment of coronavirus vaccine have left Pfizer’s facility near Kalamazoo, Michigan.
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JUST IN: Southwest Airlines, American Airlines, and Delta Air Lines will NOT REQUIRE employees to get vaccinated, breaking with United Airlines' mandate that workers get vaccinated by October 25th or face getting fired.
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JUST IN: Denver International Airport officials tell us United Airlines Flight 328 bound for Honolulu returned to the airport after an engine problem. Neighbors heard a loud boom, took these photos of what look like Boeing 777 engine nacelle in their yards.
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JUST IN: Southwest Airlines is permanently banning the woman accused of assaulting a flight attendant, knocking out two of her teeth.
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NEW: American Airlines is telling 13,000 workers who received notices of April 1 furloughs "you can tear them up!" House passage of $1.9 trillion stimulus bill extends airline Payroll Support Program once again.
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The UK is BANNING Russian aircraft from its airspace.
Russian airline Aeroflot currently operates flights between Moscow and London.
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DEVELOPING: United Airlines is canceling more than 100 Christmas Eve flights citing the Omicron variant’s impact on flight crews and workers.
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BREAKING: The first
@UPS
truck carrying the Johnson & Johnson vaccine just arrived at the Worldport hub in Louisville. More trucks carrying the vaccine will arrive throughout the day. Deliveries start TOMORROW.
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NEW IMAGE from on board Alaska Airlines 1282 after ***part of the fuselage*** blew out mid-flight. Successful emergency return to Portland after 20 minutes in the air. 10-week-old (!) Boeing 737 Max 9. NTSB investigating.
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NEW: United Airlines now says *even fewer* workers are resisting its vaccine mandate— terminating only 232 of 67,000 workers. 300+ either uploaded records late or changed their minds and got vaccinated (!) when faced with the start of the firing process.
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NEW FROM UNITED AIRLINES: “Effective immediately, masks are no longer required at United on domestic flights, select international flights (dependent upon the arrival country’s mask requirements) or at U.S. airports.”
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BREAKING: American Airlines is bringing ALL PILOTS back on the job and HIRING NEW PILOTS for the first time since the start of the pandemic.
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UPDATE: United Airlines now says “99.5 percent” of workers met this week’s vaccination deadline. United planned to start the separation process for 593 people, but some uploaded records late. Now *only 320* are getting fired.
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Delta CEO Ed Bastian says 550 people are now on the airline’s no-fly list for refusing to wear a mask on board.
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NEW: Southwest Airlines has canceled *another* 1,000 flights—more than a quarter of its Sunday schedule—per FlightAware.
It’s the second straight day of major issues. Southwest said yesterday it was working “to recover our operation.”
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New, massive fencing going up outside the Capitol. The eight foot, non-scalable fence is gone. Now, a 12-foot wall is going up.
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JUST IN: Delta Air Lines is ending its codeshare booking partnership with Russian airline Aeroflot effective immediately, CNN confirms.
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JUST IN: Air travel is HIGHER than pre-pandemic levels. TSA says it screened more people at airports yesterday than on the same day in 2019. 2.08 million vs 1.94 million.
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DERAILMENT NEWS - Biden Admin source tells me that *all seven* Class 1 railroads including Norfolk Southern will announce they are joining a voluntary safety reporting system, as requested by
@SecretaryPete
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Early morning action here at Pfizer’s Kalamazoo, Michigan facility. These UPS and FedEx trucks carrying the vaccine will head to airports. Doses arrive at 600+ hospitals and pharmacies starting tomorrow, more on Tuesday.
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Just in. Air travel just broke a new record of the pandemic. 1,191,123 people passed through TSA checkpoints on Wednesday, more than the previous record set the Sunday after Thanksgiving. This is the sixth straight day of TSA figures near or greater than one million.
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The TSA says it screened 1,284,599 people at airports nationwide on Sunday, a new air travel record of the pandemic. It’s the most people to fly since March 15th.
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The FAA just posted a pair of new Temporary Flight Restrictions over Wilmington, Delaware— the smaller of the two through Friday.
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UPDATE: Now Delta Air Lines is canceling 90+ flights tomorrow due to a “combination of issues” including the impact of the Omicron variant. “Delta teams have exhausted all options and resources.”
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One year ago today.
Breaking - UPS and FedEx trucks carrying the first U.S. shipment of coronavirus vaccine have left Pfizer’s facility near Kalamazoo, Michigan.
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JUST IN: United Airlines is activating four Boeing 777-300s as part of the Civil Reserve Air Fleet that will help evacuate U.S. citizens and personnel from Afghanistan.
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JUST IN: Pilots are now reporting the Chinese spy balloon floating a few thousand feet above them.
"DERELICT BALLOON ADRIFT" at 50,000 feet was just reported by the crew of a Cessna Citation private jet cruising at 43,000 feet near Kansas City.
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BREAKING: There are reports of airplane debris falling from the sky into several neighborhoods outside of Denver, according to Broomfield Police.
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JUST IN: Amtrak is canceling ALL long-distance trains starting tomorrow fearing the impacts of a looming rail worker strike. Most Northeast Corridor trains not impacted.
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BREAKING: The off-duty pilot who tried to "shut the engines down" on an Alaska Airlines flight has been criminally charged, CNN confirms.
Joseph Emerson, 44, faces 83 felony counts of attempted murder, 83 counts of reckless endangerment, and one count of endangering an aircraft.
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NEW: American Airlines says ticket sales are now 90 percent of pre-pandemic levels and it will soon pull most of its idle aircraft out of storage.
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BREAKING: The FAA has published *RESTRICTED AIRSPACE to 60,000 feet* for parts of the Carolinas and is "pausing departures" to Wilmington, Myrtle Beach, and Charleston airports "to support the Department of Defense in a national security effort." More to come.
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Airspace over Ukraine is EMPTY now, according to
@ADSBexchange
. Heavy civilian air traffic elsewhere warned of "HIGH risk," any altitude. The image says it all.
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NEW: Delta Air Lines now says it has banned 950 people for violating its mask policy. CEO Ed Bastian says President Biden's transportation mask mandate "adds a layer of protection for our people who have been integral in enforcing our mask policy."
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BREAKING: Source familiar tells me FOUR ON BOARD Cessna Citation private jet that crashed in SW Virginia this afternoon, “pilot unresponsive,” overshot destination by 300+ miles. NORAD confirms flight busted DC restricted airspace, F-16s scrambled and went supersonic in pursuit.
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American Airlines says it's "disheartened" that President Trump ended stimulus talks. That means 19,000 $AAL workers will not be recalled from furloughs that started last week. An airline spokesperson says $AAL "will continue to make the case in Washington that action is needed."
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BREAKING: United Airlines confirms that it has found *loose door plug bolts* and "installation issues" on an undisclosed number of its Boeing 737 Max 9 aircraft. First reported by
@jonostrower
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NEW: Red warning lights meant to stop pilots from taxiing onto Haneda runway 34R were OUT OF SERVICE at the time of Tuesday's fatal collision, a NOTAM shows.
Yet another factor to be probed as part of the investigation into JAL516 vs. a Japanese coast guard plane.
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JUST IN: Air travel just hit a NEW RECORD of the pandemic. The TSA screened 1,357,111 people at airports on Friday— the highest number since March 15, 2020.
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SCOOP: FAA software that failed causing 10k+ flight delays is *30 years old* (!) and at least 6 years away from being updated, a government official tells me.
Sec. Buttigieg has held multiple meetings and “has made it very clear” he wants NOTAM system fixed faster than planned.
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BREAKING: Buffalo Niagara International is CLOSED to ALL departing and arriving international flights, per FAA.
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NEW: The FAA has hit 10 violent passengers with *$225,000* in new fines for shouting, spitting, screaming, shoving, and throwing punches on flights.
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Just in. The FAA has issued an emergency airworthiness directive to all airlines who fly Boeing 737s. It says jets that have been in storage during the pandemic could have their engines suddenly fail. The FAA is ordering inspections after four incidents.
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NEW: The FAA is starting a probe into how a commercial airliner taxiied in front of a flight that was taking off.
The crew of a Delta Air Lines 737 aborted its takeoff from JFK Friday night, stopping within 1,000 feet of a taxiing American Airines 777, the FAA says.
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8 AM LATEST — US airlines have canceled 450 flights today citing staffing shortages caused by the Omicron variant. 169 United flights, 127 Delta flights.
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A march led by
@WashMystics
and
@WashWizards
players chants “no justice, no peace” as they pass the National Guard.
#JuneteenthDay
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Maybe ten thousand or more on
#BlackLivesMatter
Plaza chanting “this is what democracy looks like.” Our
@cnn
crew on the White House Lawn says the protest *is* clearly audible— and President Trump is there.
@KristenhCNN
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JUST IN: FAA now says the computer system failure that triggered Wednesday air travel meltdown was caused by a file damaged by “personnel who failed to follow procedures.”
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NEW: Russian airline Aeroflot has been dropped as the sponsor of Manchester United, CNN confirms.
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JUST IN:
@SecretaryPete
is giving railroads an end-of-week deadline to join a hazard reporting system following the East Palestine derailment disaster.
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DEVELOPING: Amtrak confirms to me a train derailment in Mendon, Missouri. 243 passengers on board. Reports of injuries. More info coming.
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Remember meeting people? Having started at CNN in the pandemic, I haven't actually met many coworkers... so bumping into
@jaketapper
AND
@abbydphillip
for the first time this morning was a huge treat.
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More members of the National Guard arriving every moment here outside the U.S. Capitol. Officials say the threat of more violence is real. Secret Service monitoring online chatter, Pentagon worried about pipe bombs.
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Two of the world’s biggest container shipping companies-- Maersk and MSC-- are halting cargo bookings to and from Russia.
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NEW: Donald Trump's personal 757 is nowhere near airworthy, sitting for months in upstate New York. With
@KateBennett_DC
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NEW STATEMENT from Delta Air Lines: "Delta will continue to comply with the TSA Security Directive on masks until informed otherwise by the TSA."
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An Air Force official tells
@CNN
that a Huey helicopter was shot at during a training flight near Manassas Regional Airport in Virginia on Monday, injuring one of the two pilots on board. The crew declared an emergency and landed at Manassas. Now the FBI is investigating.
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BREAKING: The Biden Administration will extend the transportation mask mandate by another 30 days, multiple industry sources tell CNN. It was set to expire March 18.
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JUST IN: FAA says earlier NOTAM system outage that caused nationwide ground stop has been traced to “a damaged database file.”
NO evidence of cyber attack. Agency “working diligently to further pinpoint the causes” to avoid a repeat.
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JUST IN: Delta Air Lines says it is canceling ALL flights to and from Israel’s main international airport *for the rest of the month*
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Freedom Day March headed to Lincoln Memorial, calling for
#JuneteenthDay
to become a national holiday. “Juneteenth is a celebration of black liberation and unity!”
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Passenger Kyle Rinker took this photo. He tells CNN "it was really abrupt, just got to altitude and the window/wall just popped off."
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FIRST ON CNN: FAA insists there are NOT air traffic control issues causing Southwest cancellations. “Due to aircraft and crews being out of place, some airlines continue to experience scheduling challenges. No FAA air traffic staffing shortages have been reported since Friday.”
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First-ever live hit in a CNN DC studio!
What you see: What I see:
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NEW: The pilot of the Yeti Airlines that crashed in Nepal was widowed when her husband was killed flying for the same carrier.
Anju Khatiwada learned to fly after the 2006 crash, using insurance money to train in the U.S.
An airline spokesperson called her "a brave woman."
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NEW: CNN identifies Darren Harrison (right) as the passenger who landed a Cessna Caravan at PBI when his pilot became incapacitated.
Air traffic controller & flight instructor Robert Morgan (left) helped guide Harrison “one step at a time” using a photo of the Caravan cockpit.
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UPS Worldport in Louisville is standing by for the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. Packages arrive here by truck from a McKesson warehouse, are unloaded and sorted, then sent on
@UPSAirlines
coast to coast. Deliveries begin tomorrow.
@UPS
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JUST IN: Alaska Airlines confirms to me that "nobody was assigned to sit" near the spot where the hole opened in the side of flight 1282, and "nobody was moved."
Alaska will not say if seats in row 26 were empty because pax missed the flight, which would have been amazing luck.
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NEW RECORD high gas prices. AAA reports US average is now $4.37 per gallon, dwarfing previous record set March 11.
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These numbers are now more similar to what they were a year ago when 1.9 million people flew. In general, air travel levels have been 40 percent of last year’s figures. Now, more than 60 percent.
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TSA screened almost a million people at airports yesterday. 992,167 passed through checkpoints on Tuesday. That’s the fifth straight day of air travel numbers near—or more than—one million, numbers that Dr. Anthony Fauci called “concerning” when on CNN last night.
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THE FIRST Johnson & Johnson vaccine has been administered in the United States. 86-year-old Barbara Schmalenberger was the first here at Ohio State University. “I wanted this shot,” she just told me. “I didn’t want to settle for anything else.”
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JUST IN: The CDC is expected to announce new travel guidelines LATER TODAY for people who have been fully vaccinated against Covid-19, according to a federal official.
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Just released: Pete Buttigieg’s prepared remarks for his Senate confirmation hearing. Less about DOT regulation, more about rebuilding. “We need to build our economy back, better than ever, and the Department of Transportation can play a central role in this.”
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Video of a Cessna 172RG ditching off Ocean City, Md. Kudos to 23-year-old pilot Trevor Deihl of Reedville, Va. who performed a textbook ditching after reporting engine trouble. He was not hurt. Video by Graysen Levy of Baltimore.
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NEW: The FAA will announce tomorrow that flight attendants will get more mandated rest time between flights, two sources familiar with the announcement tell CNN.
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Just in: Delta Air Lines says it will keep blocking middle seats through April, an extension of a pandemic policy shed by other major airlines.
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JUST NOW: President Biden says he’s spoken to the Justice Department about the uptick of unruly passengers on commercial flights. “We’re going to deal with that.”
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JUST IN: Delta Air Lines says it will hire more than 1,000 pilots by next summer, citing a “remarkable” rebound in air travel demand.
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On the right is Southwest Captain and U.S. Navy veteran Tammie Jo Shults, who spoke to passengers personally as they left
#WN1380
.
@SouthwestAir
These are the hero’s of SWA 1380 NYC to Dallas We lost an engine mid-flight and they guided back to Philly saved 149 on board
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Airlines and airports will now be REQUIRED to report those violating President Biden's travel mask mandate to federal authorities, per new docs obtained by
@gregorywallace
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JUST IN: American Airlines has set a deadline for workers to get fully vaccinated or get fired. November 24th.
“To be clear, if you fail to comply with the requirement, the result will be termination from the company.”
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HUGE: Sabre—the reservation system that is the backbone of airlines worldwide—has TERMINATED its agreement with Russia’s Aeroflot. Bookings now blocked from travel websites and travel agencies.
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JUST IN: A source familiar with the details of the American Airlines flight attendant assault tells me “the attack was unprovoked.” The passenger went to the back of the plane and punched the flight attendant twice in the face and broke her nose.
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Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian, in a new memo, says “as of this week, we’ve added 460 people to our no-fly list for refusing to comply with our mask requirement.”
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BREAKING: NTSB now says the four bolts that hold the Boeing 737 Max 9 door plug in place WERE MISSING at the time of last month’s blowout on Alaska Airlines flight 1282.
MORE TO COME
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JUST IN: The FAA is prohibiting flights from all but one high-altitude route over Afghanistan. Any US civil operator that wants to fly in or out of the country must also get FAA authorization.
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NEW DETAILS: A just-released Haneda ATC transcript points to *failure by the crew of the Japan Coast Guard plane* only moments before
#JAL516
slammed into it.
The damning new evidence shows the tower told Coast Guard JA722A to taxi to spot C5—short of (but not on) runway 34R.
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Just in:
@DHSgov
says TSA now has emergency authority to implement President Biden’s transportation mask mandate at security checkpoints “and throughout the commercial and public transportation system.”
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JUST IN: Boeing is party to a *new* investigation involving a 737 Max after United Airlines pilots reported the rudder pedals jammed (!) while landing in Newark last month.
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JUST IN: Delta Boeing 717 lands with the nose landing gear UP in Charlotte, 101 people on board unhurt after evacuating by emergency slides on runway 18L which is now closed. Passenger tells CNN crew did a "wonderful" job-- one fly-by followed by a "smooth" landing.
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NEW INFO: FAA says “post flight inspection revealed a SOFTBALL SIZE HOLE above the
#2
engine” of Atlas Air Boeing 747-8 cargo flight that suffered an engine fire over Miami late Thursday.
Successful emergency landing, great work by the crew!
Video from Melanie Adaros.
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A proper St. Patrick’s Day includes rewatching the RTE interview with
@donie
’s parents. ☘️
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