Monthly Archives: December 2009
Jamaica’s Ministry of Transport and Works has set up a hotline for persons involved in the American Airlines 331 crash who need information. The hotline numbers are: 876-501-9522 and 876-836-5900. Despite the American Airlines jet skidding off the runway Dec. 23 at Kingston’s Norman Manley International Airport, many passengers on that flight reportedly still have yet to receive their luggage. Their bags reportedly are being detained as part of the investigation of what caused American Airlines Flight 331 to skid … Read more…
In an article published by the Jamaica Sunday Herald newspaper on Dec. 26, 2009, a list of Boeing 737-800 aircraft accidents recounted some of the recent tragedies involving this plane. Not only did it include the latest incident in Jamaica on Dec. 23, 2009, when a plane skidded off the runway, crashed through a fence and came to rest just feet from the Caribbean Sea, it also listed the Feb. 25, 2009 Turkish Airlines Flight 1951 that crashed at Schiphol … Read more…
RadioJamaica.com is reporting that the offshore approach lights on the landing strip at Norman Manley International Airport were not working. According to a report filed on Christmas Day, Radio Jamaica was quoting a report from the online edition of Businessweek magazine from the previous day that a 400-meter stretch of white lights over the water from the shoreline near Kingston’s airport had been out for the past month. The report said that the Jamaican Director-General of the Civil Aviation Authority … Read more…
A 125-pound petite mother of two is being described by one Jamaican newspaper as “the hero of AA Flight 331.” Annette Howard was driving a bus for the Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) on the road near where American Airlines Flight 331 crashed, and she said she witnessed the event just meters away, according to the Jamaica Observer in a Dec. 27, 2009 article. She was on the last leg of her four trips of the day and was carrying … Read more…
The voice and data recordings from the black box of American Airlines Flight 331 that overshot the runway at Kingston’s airport last week is reportedly being analyzed in the United States. According to a Jamaican newspaper, The Gleaner, transcripts from the black box will be available to local investigators “sometime this week,” Jamaica Civil Aviation Authority Lieutenant Colonel Oscar Derby is quoted as saying. Derby also told The Gleaner, according to a story dated Dec. 28, 2009, that investigators also … Read more…
Jamaican officials have closed Port Royal Road for most of Sunday in its effort to cart away sections of the downed American Airlines jet that skidded off the runway in Kingston on Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2009. A crane at the site reportedly is lifting parts of the broken fuselage, engine and wings which is near the Caribbean Sea across this road from the Norman Manley International Airport. Director of Flight Safety at the Jamaica Civil Aviation Authority, Nari Williams-Singh, and … Read more…
It has been reported that a Ryanair Boeing 737-800 jet skidded off the runway at Prestwick airport in Scotland just after 9 a.m. Wed., Dec. 23, 2009. The plane slid on to the grass just moments after landing and just hours after a Boeing 737-800 jet skidded off the runway at the Kingston, Jamaica airport. No one was reported injured in the incident. Fire and rescue crews were at the scene as a precaution, according to reports. The plane’s undercarriage … Read more…
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) reported that it had taken possession of the flight data recorders from the American Airlines flight that overshot a runway in Kingston, Jamaica Tuesday night. Officials hope to figure out from the two so-called “black boxes” what caused the plane to overshoot the runway at Norman Manley International Airport, crossing a road and landing on the beach. The pilots’ voices were recorded and their conversations will be examined back in U.S. labs, according to … Read more…
An investigation is underway to determine the cause of American Airlines Flight 331 overshooting the runway in Kingston, Jamaica, sending as many as 100 people to the hospital. Jamaican and U.S. authorities reportedly have launched a probe into determining why the plane did not land safely in the rain at Norman Manley International Airport Tuesday night. The Boeing 737-800 cracked and broke open after the plane lurched to a stop at the edge of the Caribbean Sea. The director general … Read more…
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is part of the investigating team that is looking into the cause of the American Airlines jet that overshot the runway in Kingston, Jamaica, landing just a few feet short of the Caribbean Sea. About 100 people reportedly were taken to area hospitals, and about 7 were admitted. Everyone survived. Oxygen masks deployed from the aircraft as it cracked during the bumpy landing. Luggage was strewn from above and many were injured. Rescue teams … Read more…
