Engine-fire warning forces emergency landing for U of L basketball team

Yikes, this had to have been just a bit unnerving.

Put it on C.L.:

A warning light indicating an engine fire forced the charter flight taking the University of Louisville men’s basketball team to its game at South Florida to return home and make an emergency landing about 30 minutes after takeoff this afternoon.

U of L spokesman Kenny Klein, who was on the charter to Tampa, said that there were no flames visible at any point. He said the players didn’t know of the problem until they saw fire engines lining the runway at Louisville International Airport.

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Klein, who counted eight emergency vehicles on the runway, said, "We actually didn’t know what was going on with the plane until we completed the taxi and the captain came on and explained what happened…. there was initially an indication of some ice, and then [of] a fire."

The players did not have to make an emergency exit. Klein said they got off the same stairs on which they boarded the plane.

The emergency landing didn’t dramatically alter the Cardinals’ travel plans. Klein said instead of eating dinner in Tampa, they ate in Louisville as they awaited another charter plane.

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But

…with Kareem as co-pilot, was there ever anything to really worry about?

So glad that everybody’s safe

by Roz on Jan 7, 2009 9:35 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

Linda

….check that passenger in 12C, he’s real twitchy and looks suspiciously like Bobby Gonzalez….oh no…he’s outside walking on the wing!!

By the way, I’m feeling a little queasy.

Did you have the fish?

by Roz on Jan 7, 2009 9:44 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

hehehe....

oh, I knew you’d be queasy after I saw all those tiny empty bottles adorning your pull down tray.

Man, when I heard this story on the news it about scared me to death – pretty scarey stuff…thank God no one was injured.

By the by, we have got to win this BE opener or we will look foolish (I love that word). It’s time for Coach P to win an opener and get us started on the right foot.

Have a great day Roz.

by Linda on Jan 7, 2009 9:51 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

Once in the early 70's

I flew from Naha, Okinawa, to Taipe, Taiwan. It is about an hour flight, a little less than an hour, going westward into another time zone.

So the way it worked out was that I arrived before I left.

Gosh, wasn’t Clark Kellog brutal the other day?

Roz

by Roz on Jan 7, 2009 10:53 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

The posters at the CJ site are......umm......colorful

"Aio, quantitas magna frumentorum est."

by jch24 on Jan 7, 2009 11:01 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

I know you already know this

but you should never read the comments on CJ, it’s bad for the soul.

by Dais on Jan 7, 2009 11:15 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

are the comments anti-UofL?

I’m afraid to lok.

by Linda on Jan 7, 2009 12:31 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Maybe

But that’s not too bad. It’s usually incredibly insensitive, dripping with racism, and always argumentative.

by Dais on Jan 7, 2009 1:20 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

thanks....

not my cup of tea – I’ll just stick to CC and Card Game and of course Hell in the Hall……

by Linda on Jan 7, 2009 1:26 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Worse

I thought the Cincinnati Enquirer’s were bad, but they’re not usually racist.

"Aio, quantitas magna frumentorum est."

by jch24 on Jan 7, 2009 1:20 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Airplanes and athletes

As a journalist years ago I covered the crash in Evansville, Ind. that wiped out the entire University of Evansville basketball program. Coaches, players, trainers, everybody died. Didn’t write about the Marshall disaster, but ever since the Evansville thing, I’ve had this horrible fear that one day it will happen again and some college or professional team will be pffft, eliminated by the hand of fate.

I hope it never happens, and I take heart in knowing that today’s aircraft — engines, airframes and avionics — work better and longer than 99.9 percent of others things on earth. They just don’t break anymore, and for the Cards, traveling by jet is a heck of a lot safer than traveling by bus. So there’s that.

theoldman

by theoldman on Jan 7, 2009 11:39 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

Grim

…That Marshall tragedy. I was still moist behind the ears in the way too big Ohio State University complex (hell, talk about being a small minnow in a big pond…., I was just looking for a piece of driftwood to hang on to).
We had the football team that could never lose, a pro team really, who somehow got its ass whipped by Michigan and Stanford in succeeding years. But I remember that Saturday night.
The footage was grim with all the twisted metal and smoke clinging to a hill. Awful. And a formula driven Matthew McConnekey movie was a nice try, but couldn’t touch the real loss the family and friends must still feel.

Oldman, as “recently” as 1966, the National Hockey League did ALL of its travel by rail. With the “original six” NHL teams, the farthest trip east was Boston, farthest west was Chicago, farthest north was Montreal.

by Roz on Jan 7, 2009 12:11 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

I lived in Huntington for a few yrs, soon after that accident

It was devastating for that small town of around 40,000.

by frankpos on Jan 7, 2009 3:11 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Ever Been To Ezra J Ward's Country Store

In Barboursville?

by Roz on Jan 7, 2009 3:35 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Yes, I have : - )

by frankpos on Jan 8, 2009 7:40 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Richard Pitino

must have been smoking a doobie in the bath room as set the smoke detector off.

"You win some, You lose some but you never stop trying to do your best" Denny Crum

by DANCARD on Jan 7, 2009 12:43 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Nice

I’d import the Small Faces “Ichy Coo Park” from You Tube if I knew how. A real 60’s testament to, well, just having a good time.
Pure fun from an underrated and underappreciated nascent rock group.

So Richard Pitino with a panatella, huh?
Hard to get my arms around the image, but I like it.

It’s always the innocent looking ones.

Roz

by Roz on Jan 7, 2009 2:08 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Hey, Roz!

It’d be just fine by me if we all got back to traveling more by rail. I know it takes a lot longer, but geez, most industrialized nations in the world have efficient rail service and there’s no reason we shouldn’t either. And yes, the Marshall thing was mind-numbing. Evansville, too. I knew a kid who played for the Purple Eagles — Tony Winburn, from Jeffersonsville. We played in a summer league; he was much younger than I (isn’t everyone.) Anyway, sadness all the way around and I hope it’s never repeated. Yesterday’s scare just got me to thinking….

theoldman

by theoldman on Jan 7, 2009 12:54 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Ancientone

…I love the team nickname “Purple Eagles.” Didn’t Jerry Sloan, three decade NBA coach, play for the “Purple Aces?” NYU was called the “Violets.” (Pretty ferocious, huh?) I like “Gaels” which I think is Iona. Love those college nicknames.

Anyway, in reference to your train travel post, this PM, The Encore Channel featured “The Silver Streak.”
Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor at their very most outrageous. A peak, I think.

Let’s win tonight,
Roz

by Roz on Jan 7, 2009 6:07 PM EST reply actions 0 recs