“Ukukhathalela abakhweli bethu kunye namalungu eqela lethu yeyona nto iphambili kuthi, kwaye siza kubonelela ngalo lonke uncedo oluyimfuneko,” utshilo uGerard Arpey, usihlalo weAmerican Airline kunye negosa elilawulayo malunga neAmerican Airlines Flight 331.
NgoLwesibini, nge-22 kaDisemba, 2009, i-AA's Flight 331, inqwelo-moya ye-Boeing 737-800, yagqitha kumgaqo weenqwelo-moya xa ifika kwisikhululo seenqwelomoya sase-Kingston, eJamaica eNorman Manley International Airport. Inqwelomoya yavela kwisikhululo seenqwelomoya i-Ronald Reagan Washington, yasebenza kwisikhululo seenqwelomoya saseMiami saMazwe ngaMazwe, emva koko yasebenza kwisikhululo seenqwelomoya sase-Kingston's Norman Manley International.
Iingxelo zokuqala zibonisa ukuba akukho mntu wonzakele kakhulu. Inqwelomoya yayithwele abakhweli abayi-148 kunye nabasebenzi abathandathu.
Inqwelo-moya yatyibilika endleleni yaza yema kumda weCaribbean, kubonakala ukuba yathintelwa ukuba ingangeni emanzini kuphela kukuthambeka phezulu kwesanti. Impumlo yejethi yayingaphantsi kweemitha ezi-3 ukusuka emanzini. I-fuselage yenqwelomoya yaqhekeka, i-injini yayo yasekunene yaqhawuka kwimpembelelo kwaye i-gear yokumisa ekhohlo yawa, utshilo isithethi se-American Airlines kwikomkhulu lenkampani eTexas. Uninzi lokwenzakala yayingamanxeba kunye nemikrwelo kwaye akukho namnye obeka ubomi esichengeni, nangona wayengenazo iinkcukacha, utshilo.
Ngokutsho kukaDaryl Vaz, uMphathiswa woLwazi waseJamaica, abakhweli abamalunga nama-44 basiwa kwizibhedlele ezikufutshane bephuke amathambo neentlungu zomqolo. Abo babehla kwinqwelo-moya babesopha, ubukhulu becala kumalungu angasentla emizimba yabo.
UPilar Abaurrea, omnye wabakhweli, uchaze umbhodamo njengoko inqwelomoya yabetha emhlabeni ngentlitha enkulu yaza yatyibilika kumgaqo weenqwelo-moya.
“Ngequbuliso yakufika emhlabeni, inqwelo-moya yaba ngathi iyabhadula; umntu othile uthe inqwelo-moya iyatyibilika kwaye kukho uloyiko,” utshilo uNksz Abaurrea waseKeene, eNew Hampshire.
Njengoko abasebenzi babevula iindawo zokuphuma ezingxamisekileyo yaye abantu begxalathelana ukuba behle, uNkosazana Abaurrea oneminyaka engama-62 ubudala nomyeni wakhe, uGary Wehrwein, baphawula abantu abaninzi abonzakeleyo, kuquka nomntu owayesikeke entloko ngenxa yokuwa kwemithwalo. .
Wathi wayenentlungu entanyeni nasemqolo ngenxa yempembelelo, kwaye umyeni wakhe wayenentlungu egxalabeni lokuwa kwemithwalo, kodwa bobabini babengenzakalanga. “Ndingcangcazele kancinane kodwa kulungile,” watsho.
UNksz Abaurrea uthe indiza yayinzima kakhulu, kunye nabasebenzi baphoqeleka ukuba bamise inkonzo yetroli kathathu ngaphambi kokuba banikezele ekugqibeleni. Ngaphambi nje kokufika, umqhubi wenqwelo-moya walumkisa ngesiphithiphithi esithe chatha kodwa wathi akusayi kuba mbi kakhulu kunale nto bayifumeneyo ukuza kuthi ga ngoku, utshilo.
I-American Airlines inxibelelana ngokuthe ngqo namagosa eBhodi yeSizwe yoKhuseleko lwezoThutho kunye neFederal Aviation Administration kwaye isebenzisana ngokupheleleyo nabasemagunyeni abafanelekileyo. I-American Airlines ayinakuthelekelela ngezizathu ezinokwenzeka zesehlo. Kweli nqanaba, akukho zinkcukacha ezongezelelweyo ezinokuqinisekiswa.
