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Mysterious Flight Diverted After 4 Passengers Faint

DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — A plane was diverted to an Ohio airport after two flight attendants reported dizziness and four passengers fainted.

American Airlines spokesman Ed Martelle (mar-TEL’) says the pilot dropped oxygen masks when the dizziness was reported Friday morning.

Dayton International Airport Director Terrence Slaybaugh (SLAY’-bah) says the pilot alerted the airport that some passengers were complaining about air quality.

Martelle says all 140 people on Flight 547 from Reagan National in Washington, D.C., to Chicago‘s O’Hare Airport walked off the Boeing 737. He says two were taken to a hospital. Their conditions are not known.

Martelle says the airline is investigating to determine the cause. Another plane will transport passengers.

Comments (34)

  • Tractormaniac
    Posted on April 3, 2011 at 10:30pm

    Chemtrails, they are spraying us more and more these days. 1000s of black birds falling from the skys from arkansas to alabama around the turn of the new year, the biologist blamed it own fireworks from new years scaring the birds causing them to crash into cars, ground, etc., yea right. We have birds falling from the skys and they are constantly spraying us with GOD knows what. They don’t take a canary in the mine for no reason. Wake up people.

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  • ForTheRepublic
    Posted on April 3, 2011 at 1:20am

    mysterious flight ?
    I thought they kept better track of the planes than that …

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  • AmeriCat
    Posted on April 2, 2011 at 8:17am

    Aircraft decompression….the 5th one this week!
    How many dry runs do they need?

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  • pwatkins
    Posted on April 2, 2011 at 3:05am

    Mystery it is
    oil spills
    Brazill drills
    money all spent
    China lent
    jobs stall
    birds fall
    fish float
    frogs croak
    control on border lacks
    earth cracks
    radiation spews
    constant green energy in the news
    planes have holes
    libs want banks to fold
    they say Muslims need more rights
    makes the left put up fights
    chaos everywhere
    we‘re told Christians don’t care
    racecard played
    blame upon Tea Party layed
    for the taxpayer the left is like a leech
    makes us call on congress to impeach
    on planes people faint
    you guys feeling safe these days, I ain’t
    If things seem strange
    Obama says it just change
    Liberals get off the dope
    this president has shown us no hope
    for Jesus we take our stand
    He is the Only Truth left in this land

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  • thegreatcarnac
    Posted on April 1, 2011 at 3:03pm

    I believe they decided that these 4 checked their I-phones e-mail and had notes from the IRS detailing how much they will have to pay in taxes this year.

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  • LadyIzShy
    Posted on April 1, 2011 at 2:44pm

    yet one more reason I wont fly.. this will be interesting to see hwta happens

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  • bkeely
    Posted on April 1, 2011 at 2:17pm

    Another reason not to fly.
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    Buck
    http://www.***************
    Heirloom Seeds, “How God plants His garden.”

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  • carnifex
    Posted on April 1, 2011 at 1:58pm

    if they do find another bullet hole and bullet, logic would indicate that we have another “DC sniper” in our midst. An Islamisist, or anarchist is anybodies guess.

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  • Conservative Democrat
    Posted on April 1, 2011 at 1:51pm

    Pressure problem, Airliners use a “differential method” to maintain the cabin pressure at 10,000 ft. anyone who is “short of breath” from smoking, asthma, COPD, or use any type of blood thinner or BP meds MAY have difficulty breathing at angels 10 to 14 feet.

    A “bullet” hole will not cause depressureaziation(?) of an airliner, sorry that is a myth.
    This is a mechanical problem.

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    • TSUNAMI-22
      Posted on April 1, 2011 at 2:33pm

      Tell that to that golfer who died in that Learjet a few years back because the hatch was slightly ajar. Decompression doesn’t necessarily have to be catastrophic to be effective. Oxygen starvation can occur at pressure altitudes of 5,000 feet or less depending on each individual.

      I’m sure the FAA will find something tangible that led to this.

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  • CatB
    Posted on April 1, 2011 at 1:39pm

    @RANDY and TO THE REPUBLIC …

    Thanks!

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  • Gypsy123
    Posted on April 1, 2011 at 1:29pm

    I agree Dry Chemical run!

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  • randy
    Posted on April 1, 2011 at 1:19pm

    Dry run? chemical release? You do not need to blow the plane out of the sky Putting everyone to sleep will do the trick.

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  • PalinWest 2012
    Posted on April 1, 2011 at 1:09pm

    *
    Did the new body scanners cause this.

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  • CanteenBoy
    Posted on April 1, 2011 at 12:37pm

    Sounds like a pressurization failure.

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    • RightPolitically
      Posted on April 1, 2011 at 12:45pm

      Ditto!

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    • CatB
      Posted on April 1, 2011 at 12:51pm

      They should check it for bullet holes … remember the one that was found earlier in the week?

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    • OUTRIDER WRITER
      Posted on April 1, 2011 at 12:56pm

      Re: Canteen and Right
      Refreshing to hear two logical replies and not conspiratorial scenarios or cynical nonsense–the usual problem with blogs.

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    • OUTRIDER WRITER
      Posted on April 1, 2011 at 1:02pm

      CatB — I love cats (you can’t have just one….), but ….. could you please refrain from stale commentary?
      Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat. ~~Robert A. Heinlein

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    • CatB
      Posted on April 1, 2011 at 1:18pm

      OUTRIDER WRITER
      Posted on April 1, 2011 at 1:02pm
      CatB — I love cats (you can’t have just one….), but ….. could you please refrain from stale commentary?

      _____________________________________________________-

      You the new censor? WTF….. or is that too “stale”.

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    • randy
      Posted on April 1, 2011 at 1:21pm

      OUTRIDER WRITER I’m sorry. who died and put you in charge?

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    • and to the republic
      Posted on April 1, 2011 at 1:29pm

      @ O W… what the hec was that attempted beat down for?

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    • CatB
      Posted on April 1, 2011 at 1:55pm

      @RANDY and AND TO THE REPUBLIC ..

      Thanks … perhaps OW missed this ….

      http://www.theblaze.com/stories/update-bullet-found-aboard-us-airway-flight-that-was-grounded-yesterday/

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    • and to the republic
      Posted on April 1, 2011 at 2:02pm

      I have a feeling O W misses a lot of things with being so worried about what is stale and what is not…

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    • TSUNAMI-22
      Posted on April 1, 2011 at 2:24pm

      Yup. That makes sense to me too. Oxygen starvation. Their lips would have been turning blue. If it’s carbon monoxide, that’ll make your skin turn red.

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    • kickagrandma
      Posted on April 1, 2011 at 2:36pm

      @CANTEENBOY ~~ YEP! Due to bullet holes and chemicals.

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    • shotzie
      Posted on April 1, 2011 at 11:31pm

      This story broke around noon – it’s almost midnight. why haven’t we heard any more about this? something does not sound right about this. Especially when you look at one plane with a bullet hole in it yesterday and another place with a 4 foot hole blown in it tonight in AZ. Am I the only one bothered by these incidents so close together?

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    • MaggieRose
      Posted on April 2, 2011 at 9:14am

      @ Outrider… who wizzed in your Cheerios?

      @CatB… we got your back :-)

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  • lynnissmart
    Posted on April 1, 2011 at 12:37pm

    Probably another dry run.

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  • RightPolitically
    Posted on April 1, 2011 at 12:35pm

    Wow, not good. Thank God they got down safely!

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