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Title: United 3759 Emergency Landing New Castle County, Delaware - Smoke in cabin
Post by: nyy574 on January 30, 2014, 10:03:49 AM

United 3759, a CRJ-700 operated by Mesa Airlines, made an emergency landing at New Castle County Airport in Wilmington, DE on 01/29/14 due to smoke in cabin. Audio is edited down to include only this flight and starts when asks for emergency descent while on Washington Center. Audio continues on Philadelphia Approach and stops when switches to tower frequency as tower frequency was down at the time. The audio ends with the radio transmissions of the fire department response.

Title: Re: United 3759 Emergency Landing New Castle County, Delaware - Smoke in cabin
Post by: mk223 on January 30, 2014, 01:06:25 PM

Thanks for digging this out, I tried finding it yesterday with luck.

Title: Re: United 3759 Emergency Landing New Castle County, Delaware - Smoke in cabin
Post by: StuSEL on February 01, 2014, 07:59:31 PM

Thanks for including the emergency tones & comms!

Title: Re: United 3759 Emergency Landing New Castle County, Delaware - Smoke in cabin
Post by: RonR on February 02, 2014, 08:40:48 AM

Nice find!  IMHO it sounded like the first pilot was not getting the urgency of the situation across to the controller; he requested a descent to 10000 four times.  Only after the second pilot came on did they get the clearance for the immediate descent.  You couldn't hear the controller side of the conversation while they were talking with Washington Center so maybe that's not how it was but it seemed like that to me...

Title: Re: United 3759 Emergency Landing New Castle County, Delaware - Smoke in cabin
Post by: RonR on February 02, 2014, 08:59:07 AM

Aviation Herald report here:

http://avherald.com/h?article=46f3d7bb&opt=0