CO 90 Diverted to CLE
Aug 10, 2006 | 6:22 pm
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CO 90 Diverted to CLE
A passenger onboard CO 90 from LAX to EWR just called to say they were diverted to CLE after the aircraft was in a lengthy holding pattern near EWR. The plane apparently ran low on fuel and diverted to CLE.
Any idea why it would go to CLE and not BOS or someplace closer? Is there something even more unusual going on at EWR, besides bad weather and the terrorist warning?
Any idea why it would go to CLE and not BOS or someplace closer? Is there something even more unusual going on at EWR, besides bad weather and the terrorist warning?
Aug 10, 2006 | 6:45 pm
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Looking at the map on flightaware.com, they were put on a holding pattern over Toledo, OH, just before CLE. Not close to EWR.
Aug 10, 2006 | 6:49 pm
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Originally Posted by rkkwan
Looking at the map on flightaware.com, they were put on a holding pattern over Toledo, OH, just before CLE. Not close to EWR.
Aug 10, 2006 | 6:52 pm
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Originally Posted by manhattan92
Thanks for the clarification--latest update from that flight is that passengers deplaned at CLE and given option to overnight in CLE or continue if/when flights to EWR resume. CO90 eventually becomes the EWR-TLV flight but maybe not tonight.
Aug 10, 2006 | 6:52 pm
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Nasty storms just rolled through EWR within the past hour......
Aug 10, 2006 | 6:57 pm
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CO16 LAX-EWR also went to CLE.
Probably more flights diverted too.
Probably more flights diverted too.
Aug 10, 2006 | 7:44 pm
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Originally Posted by manhattan92
Any idea why it would go to CLE and not BOS or someplace closer?
Aug 10, 2006 | 8:11 pm
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Originally Posted by ctownflyer
It's part of the CLE lobby to land TLV service..
Aug 10, 2006 | 8:18 pm
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Originally Posted by ContinentalFan
That's what I was thinking too. Poor Newark: it's had a rough day. I wonder will they ferry a widebody up there tomorrow to bring all those stranded passengers back to EWR.
Aug 10, 2006 | 8:22 pm
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A friend of mine is a CoEX FA and she was the FA on a flight to EWR that has diverted to Philly and has been there about 1.5 hours in the penalty box.
Aug 10, 2006 | 9:18 pm
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It's part of the CLE lobby to land TLV service..
Aug 10, 2006 | 9:38 pm
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Originally Posted by entropy
I swear I had nothign to do with it.
Aug 10, 2006 | 10:31 pm
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כן. אבל אני מקווה שהיה בגללי.
he said, are you sure, and I reply, yes, but I wish that it was because of me.
אני רוצה אתcLE-TLV...
he said, are you sure, and I reply, yes, but I wish that it was because of me.
אני רוצה אתcLE-TLV...
Aug 11, 2006 | 12:03 am
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Originally Posted by ContinentalFan
That's what I was thinking too. Poor Newark: it's had a rough day. I wonder will they ferry a widebody up there tomorrow to bring all those stranded passengers back to EWR.
Aug 11, 2006 | 12:19 am
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Originally Posted by IAH_FLYER
We had some pretty nasty thunderstorms here in Houston this afternoon, too. Poor Houston.
