Aircraft declares zero-flap failure near Harrisburg airport, Middletown PA
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Aviation IncidentAn inbound aircraft near Harrisburg International Airport reported a zero-flap failure with 7,000 pounds of fuel and 63 people on board. Emergency response teams were dispatched and Alert 2 was declared for runway 13.
Audio|Heard on: Dauphin County Public Safety
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01:23
Transcript:
00:00
This is a third tower with anything about emergency? This pressure's on.
00:10
All right, yep, I got anybody by emergency for you.
00:12
Call sign, Envoy 4182.
00:16
We got.
00:18
He's in an Embraer 170.
00:22
He has a zero-flap failure, so he's going really fast.
00:27
Not really fast.
00:28
He'll have been going $160,000 on final, the whole runway.
00:32
I'm sorry, what's the runway, one-three or three-one? One-three.
00:35
Okay. One-three?
00:37
How much fuel and souls? 7,000 pounds of fuel,
00:41
and 63 souls on board.
00:43
Copy. All right.
00:44
Okay, what's the ETA?
00:45
It's about 10 minutes, 10 minutes out.
00:50
Okay,
00:51
thanks.
00:54
Crisis number three-one transport and two connections.
01:02
Hey, that he's real.
01:05
Nation 1771, respond, runway, one-three,
01:09
alert two, inbound aircraft with no flaps.
01:14
And for all seven you guys have responded.
01:20
Seventy, I have the attack engine 702, 703.
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Location mentioned:
Harrisburg International Airport (MDT), 1 Terminal Dr, Middletown, PA 17057
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