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PASSENGERS ON A Boston-bound plane taking off from Chicago had to be evacuated from the craft earlier this week, after an engine went on fire during take-off.
The sight, to be frank, looks pretty terrifying…
Southwest Airlines said the plane had been evacuated due to a “mechanical issue” on Wednesday night.
A statement, reported by NBC Chicago, said pilots had aborted take-off due to a “performance issue with one of the engines”.
Emergency vehicles met the passengers at the steps of the plane, and a fire department spokesman confirmed smoke was coming from one of the engines.
This passenger, who live-tweeted the whole thing, wasn’t all that bothered by the experience.
“You go through many emotions in a moment like that with a blast like that. You’re unsure of what’s going on or what’s going to happen,” Blain Thayer later told Boston.com.
Passengers boarded a later flight, and made it to Boston in the early hours.
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When the sh⚡t hits the clam
I missed a week’s work with that bug. I took it as – Time off in loo
Some aphrodisiac they would be to get!
I’ve had norovirus (also known as winter vomiting bug). It’s awful. 24 hours of emptying your digestive system out at both ends, lovely! Also gave me the only fever I remember having as an adult. Took our babies a week or so to get over it. Almost everyone that was near someone who was sick with it caught it. And then, because ‘immunity is partial and temporary’ (thanks wikipedia), and it lives a really long time in any spot you didn’t manage to bleach clean, we caught it again, from ourselves, another twice or three times, over several years. Honestly, how and why anyone with that bug was still in work rather than at home in bed I have no idea. *mental note, avoid South Korean shellfish*
LOL to Deirdre and Stephen.
But Noro virus does sound horrible. I’ll be looking closely at all labelling of shellfish from now on.
Ah it’s grand if you get it in early January, saves you having to diet off the Christmas excess!
Just to give you an insight. This kind of thing doesn’t surprise me at all. I worked in Cheong’ju in 2000 teaching kids in a private school. There was never any toilet roll or soap in their toilets, and they never washed their hands…and this was quite a posh private school. I remember friday evenings particularly. The businessmen used to go for friday evening drinks. i’d be walking home at 9pm and they would be absolutely thrashed, stupid drunk, puking on the street and often would just unzip their fly and pee against a wall, sometimes just on the street in full view of a busy thoroughfare..very odd …if you ever read any accounts of the american marines that fought in the korean war 1950-1953..most at some stage will mention their disgust at crawling through paddy fields under fire…the koreans fertilised their fields with their own excrement..lovely!!!
There is a lot of food coming to ireland from completely unregulated countries. We have no idea what we are consuming. It’s a joke.
LOL Bandara!
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