Houston bound airliner goes off runway at Denver airport

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Houston bound airliner goes off runway at Denver airport

#1 Post by Bob Juch » Sat Dec 20, 2008 9:47 pm

Continental Airlines flight 1404 slid off the runway during takeoff and caught fire. None of the passengers were seriously hurt.
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Re: Houston bound airliner goes off runway at Denver airport

#2 Post by etaoin22 » Sun Dec 21, 2008 1:25 pm

well, in the end the report was of 38 injuries, two of whom were in critical condition overnight, but still not bad under the circumstances.

Denver is a good place to go veering off, or to fail to get properly airborne (which is usually what the journalistic veering off turns out to be) , or to have a late abort. Shortest runways are 12K feet (!), and the longest is 16K. And the 'ravine" area looks like a pretty nice place to go skidding to a stop, ( by comparison to the ravine in Toronto where Air France wound up). Kudos to crew and passengers for all making it out.

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