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Flight number[edit]

There needs to be a flight number on this to conform to standards on other airplane crashes. I made a few attempts to locate it myself and was not successful. Regrettably it was not well covered, even then. This was likely not sensational enough to an uniformed media/public. Everyone survived and the plane looks fine, who cares *sigh*. This incident was a big deal in the industry because a brand new airplane should not suddenly lose both engines under conditions it was certified for. I first heard about it an industry trade magazine (Air Transport World?) a few months afterwards. We might need to go thru some newspaper microfilms from late May to early June 1988 for the flight number. SkyWayMan 02 March 2006 01:17 (UTC)

I found the flight number, it's 110. The source is Air & Space Magazine, a respected publication from the Smithsonian. -- AirOdyssey 04:24, 15 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Amoz02t writes 9-29-2010: First person witness. Please let me clear up one minor historical detail here. The plane TOOK OFF from the access road next to the grass field, NOT the grass. I was working at Michoud Assembly Facility at the time. I recall the hard rain when the plane landed on the grass and even the paint missing from the nose due to the hail. A guy I worked with was out in the rain when it landed. He was warning the firemen responding to the emergency landing not to run their trucks into the ditches in the field as they raced out to the plane in the pouring rain. The pilot was/is a hero. We Martin Marietta workers assumed that the plane would eventually be riding out on one of the barges used for the Space Shuttle External Tanks made there. Days later after only one of the two 737 GE CFM56 engines was replaced, the Boeing test pilots flew the 737 out. They took off from an access road that was originally put down to support the weight of the Apollo Saturn rocket first stage. The Saturn first stage was produced at Michoud before the Shuttle External Tank. There was a crowd of MAF employees as witnesses when the empty 737 took off like a rocket over the green Chalmette bridge. It took off from a paved surface, days after the 737 landed undamaged with gear fully extended on the wet grass. The short little AvWeek story right after the event wrongly stated the take off was from grass. I was there. Landed on grass. Left from pavement. S Gillespie 2010. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.101.216.161 (talk) 01:58, 30 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Mayday appearance.[edit]

This event was recently covered by the Canadian Mayday program. Should that be put in the main article? Nutster (talk) 23:52, 10 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, why not? Qantasplanes (talk) 03:40, 12 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

To Wikipedians - keep an eye on N697SW![edit]

Hello! In a bit of random news, after watching the Mayday episode and reading this article, I realized that this aircraft still flies today. I ended up reaching out to Southwest, and after suggesting that they should preserve the airframe due to its highly historical value, they seem receptive to the idea, and the suggestion went to the top. I wanted to write this here so that those who are editing or otherwise reviewing this page, can check and see whether this airframe has indeed been slated for preservation. I'll let you guys know if anything comes of it, and will write it here if they come back and tell me themselves. The Legacy (talk) 02:04, 8 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hi again! Just a heads up that I'm still speaking to them about this. I should have a final answer in the near future. The Legacy (talk) 18:51, 6 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Language[edit]

I think words have been mixed up (words reversed) in this sentence, but as I am not a pilot or Ph.D in English (just a Bachelor but still) I am not sure if I should change it, quote://

Dardano agreed, and deadsticked the crippled plane in an unpowered glide adjacent the narrow grass levee on the NASA Michoud Assembly Facility (MAF)//endquote

Shouldn't it be :: ... and deadsticked (landed) the crippled plane in an unpowered glide on the narrow grass levee adjacent to the NASA Michoud Assembly Facility (MAF). --?-- d-axel (talk) 13:29, 4 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]