Wed, Nov 23, 2011
But Fundraising DC-7 Flight To Charlotte Not Without
Problems
Some of the passengers from US Airways Flight 1549 got back into
an airplane with Captain Chesley Sullenberger and First Officer
Jeffrey Skiles Friday, but this time it wasn't an Airbus, and it
wasn't flying over the Hudson River.
Sully and Skiles had agreed to pilot a 1958 DC-7 (photo:
Facebook) once flown by Eastern Airlines from Miami's Opa-Locka
Executive Airport into Charlotte Douglas International, where it
was displayed for a while at the Carolinas Aviation Museum.
Charlotte happens to be the intended destination of the famous
Flight 1549 which became better known as "The Miracle on the
Hudson."
Tickets for the flight with Sully and Skiles cost $1,000, part
of a fund-raiser for the Historical Flight Foundation, which
restored the DC-7. The 40 passengers on the trip from Miami to
Charlotte included former Flight 1549 passengers and other aviation
buffs. The foundation has also scheduled other flights aboard the
vintage airliner.
Charlotte's WCNC-TV reports that after the landing at Charlotte,
some oil was leaking from one of the plane's four engines, and
mechanics administered some TLC. Tickets for the return flight to
Miami cost $375, and a fresh crew replaced Sully and Skiles. But
after takeoff for the trip back to Miami with 55 passengers
onboard, the DC-7 had another engine problem and returned to
Charlotte trailing smoke. The landing was described by passengers
as smooth.
The foundation was reportedly looking Friday for a tour bus to
get the passengers back to Florida, but Charlotte's WBTV reports
some chose to spend the night in Charlotte, while others caught
commercial flights home.
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