Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
Seats on a United Airlines flight come loose, roll and injure a passenger
You don't hear about this everyday: A United Airlines flight taking off from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport and bound for San Francisco this past Sunday had to turn back suddenly after a row of seats became loose, slid backwards and slammed into a full row of passengers.Maintenance workers confirmed that there was a loose bolt on three occupied seats in the third row of that flight. At takeoff, the seats simply came undone.
One woman sitting in the fourth row suffered a knee injury and was transported to the hospital after the pilot made an emergency landing.
Maintenance workers fixed the problem (though the flight was delayed more than three hours).
United says it will compensate passengers for that delay.
The injured woman flew to San Francisco this morning on a free first class ticket.
Filed under: Airlines
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Jimbo Aug 5th 2008 5:43PM
How much does anyone want to bet me that it was one of their old 737s?
Those are just horrible airplanes. Fear the 7dirty7!
Mark Aug 6th 2008 12:43AM
Jimbo, I'd rather be on a 7dirty7 than one of American's MD-uglies! Or worse, a Northwest DC-9 deathtrap! Only planes in the air where the tailcone detaches at random!
Lisa Aug 6th 2008 2:44AM
The ticket was not "free" since we paid for the ticket!
JUDY Aug 6th 2008 4:57PM
This is just the beginning. In all my years of flying, I have never seen such fithy broken down interiors in ariplanes.