As the busy Spring Break travel season gets underway, safety was on the minds of some passengers flying out of Jacksonville International Airport on Friday.
– Friday morning, a United Airlines flight skidded off the runway at Houston’s George Bush Intercontinental Airport. And on Thursday,, damaging several cars in the parking lot. The flight made an emergency landing in Los Angeles.
“We were just wondering if it could happen to us because you never really know what’s going to happen with all the planes and stuff,” passenger Clara Joyce said.Joyce said she watched the video of the United plane’s lost wheel Thursday night just hours before her and her family’s Friday afternoon flight to Nashville.Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 Max 9′s door panel flew off mid-flight.
“Honestly I haven’t had many incidents when I’m on a plane except for a lot of turbulence, so it doesn’t bother me too much,” Gretchen Morgan said.At United and Alaska airlines, frustration with Boeing’s manufacturing problems is boiling overAccording to Safety Record for U.S Air Carriers, in the last ten years, there have been two deaths on commercial planes.
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