Flight carrying members of Congress makes emergency landing

HOUSTON -- A Continental Airlines flight carrying seven members of Congress from Houston to Washington was forced to make an emergency landing after it lost cabin pressure and took a major nosedive Tuesday afternoon.

Flight 458 was bound for Reagan National Airport, but was diverted and landed safely in New Orleans, a spokeswoman for U.S. Rep. Ted Poe told 11 News.

Poe and fellow Congressmen Nick Lampson, Ron Paul, John Carter, Ciro Rodriguez, Solomon Ortiz and Henry Cuellar were aboard the flight, said Poe's press secretary DeeAnn Thigpen. There were 118 people aboard the plane, said Continental spokeswoman Julie King.

No one was hurt, the airline confirmed.

Continental Airlines said the problem was caused by a sudden loss in cabin pressure.

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Loss of cabin pressure & a nose dive is a scary, scary experience!

It's what we do to get down to an altitude where people can breathe without supplemental oxygen.

they'd love to have those two guys fall out of the sky. I cant stand Paul's politics, but he's a pain in the GOP's ass.

Think nothing of it. :D
But then sometimes the passengers are wingnuts...I guess the bad guys aren't keeping up much with who's on board on any given day.
:rofl:

For being on the same plane as Ted Poe. :)

:woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo:
:hi:

And that is one of their brand new 737-900G

practice attempts?

(donning asbestos suit)

seemed odd to me at the time to have two incidents the same day, when I don't recall having heard on the news about a loss of pressure incident, except one or two which were serious &/or life-threatening if nor deadly.

Federal Reserve.

165K +++++ for part time work, poorly done.

15,000 in the same city at the same time as the Pug Convention? It seems that Paul had better stay out of all planes, not just small ones.