Source: Chinadaily.com.cn Author: 07/30/2008
Subject Concerned: Airlines Airport
On July 29, a Delta Air Lines plane carrying 167 people safely made an emergency landing at John F. Kennedy International Airport in the evening, hours after it blew out a tire on take-off from the airport, authorities said.
Flight 141, which was bound for Salt Lake City, circled Kennedy for several hours to burn off fuel, then dumped extra fuel over a nearby body of water before landing, said Alan Hicks, a spokesman for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which oversees the airport in the New York City borough of Queens.
Passengers were taken by bus back to a terminal.
A spokeswoman for Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines Inc. said there were no injuries. She said maintenance workers would inspect the plane, a Boeing 737-800, and passengers would be rebooked on other flights.
She said the tires are checked regularly but she did not know when they were last replaced.