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Row of seats comes loose on United flight

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Row of seats comes loose on United flight#1
Posted: 8/5/08 at 7:01pm

A United Airlines flight bound for San Francisco from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport Sunday evening was forced to make an emergency landing after a row of seats gave way during takeoff and slid into the row behind it, injuring one passenger.

Man ... with prices going up, you'd think they'd pay closer attention to maintenance.
Row of seats on United Airlines flight comes loose

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re: Row of seats comes loose on United flight#2
Posted: 8/5/08 at 7:03pm

WHAT??!!!!!!!!!!!! dear Lord, that's scary.

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re: Row of seats comes loose on United flight#3
Posted: 8/5/08 at 7:07pm

That's it. I'm never flying United again.

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re: Row of seats comes loose on United flight#4
Posted: 8/5/08 at 9:36pm

So now you not only have to buy a 7$ pillow but you get a row of seats coming apart too for that price!

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re: Row of seats comes loose on United flight#5
Posted: 8/6/08 at 3:25pm

"Here's your seat, sir. Would you like bolts with that? That'll be $49."

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re: Row of seats comes loose on United flight#6
Posted: 8/6/08 at 8:06pm

But given the G-forces at work during takeoff, he said, just one loose bolt is enough to unanchor a row of seats.

I know absolutely nothing about aviation, but are they serious??

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#7
Posted: 8/6/08 at 8:09pm

Updated On: 1/14/09 at 08:09 PM

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re: Row of seats comes loose on United flight#8
Posted: 8/6/08 at 10:04pm

Maybe I'm the only one who didn't know this, but I just found out that all the rows of seats are adjustable in moving side to side and back and forth. Also, the seats can actually be "unscrewed" to be taken off the plane. Apparently, this is done more often than we realize.

If there are rows with 3 seats, then an aisle, and then 3 other seats, you can slide 3 of the chairs over and not have an aisle where it originally was.

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Updated On: 8/6/08 at 10:04 PM

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re: Row of seats comes loose on United flight#9
Posted: 8/6/08 at 11:26pm

sweet, you don't read much, do ya? That's pretty common knowledge

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re: Row of seats comes loose on United flight#10
Posted: 8/7/08 at 12:56am

"Would you like bolts with that?" LOL! Sounds like a sequel to YF. Or Boeing Boeing.

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re: Row of seats comes loose on United flight#11
Posted: 4/21/17 at 8:52pm

I'm just annoyed that the people in the forward row that moved back ended up getting extra leg room seats and didn't have to pay extra for them like I do when I fly.

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re: Row of seats comes loose on United flight#12
Posted: 4/21/17 at 9:21pm

"Bolts are for people mit owt nuts"!

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re: Row of seats comes loose on United flight#13
Posted: 4/23/17 at 8:09am

Y'all realize this thread and its story is nearly 9 years old, yes?

If we're not having fun, then why are we doing it? These are DISCUSSION boards, not mutual admiration boards. Discussion only occurs when we are willing to hear what others are thinking, regardless of whether it is alignment to our own thoughts.

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