Seven Congressmen On Board For In-Flight Emergency

Seven Texas Congressmen were on board a Continental Airlines flight from Houston to Washington D.C. when their aircraft lost cabin pressure and was forced to divert to New Orleans. Flight 458 was carrying Congressmen Ted Poe, Nick Lampson, Ron Paul, John Carter, Ciro Rodriguez, Solomon Ortiz and Henry Cuellar along with 111 other passengers when the problem developed on the 737. Representative Lampson praised the efforts of the crew by saying, "Continental Airline’s personnel and staff were exceptional; executing what seemed to me a textbook performance in emergency procedure. I was very impressed." Ironically, the Congressmen were on their way to the Nation's capital to vote on House Bill H.R. 6493, better known as the Aviation Safety Enhancement Act of 2008. Earlier this month Senator and Presidential hopeful Barrack Obama's Midwest Airlines chartered MD-81 had to divert and make an emergency landing in St. Louis due to an in-flight aft emergency exit slide deployment.

(KHOU)

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