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San Marino bound Irish squad plane has to circle Dublin airport before returning

  • 06-02-2007 12:12am
    #1
    patto_chan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 256 ✭✭


    Hopefully not an omen of things to come. If the Gift Grub team get a hold of this it should be interesting.

    http://www.ireland.com/sports/soccer/2007/0205/1170363703824.html

    Republic flight grounded in Dublin

    Monday, February 5, 2007

    The Republic of Ireland's trip to San Marino has begun in farcical circumstances, with their plane forced to return to Dublin airport after 90 minutes in the air above the capital.

    The pilot on the Czech Airlines flight to Rimini discovered he was unable to raise the undercarriage after taking off but could not land again immediately until a slot became available.

    All passengers - including the Irish squad, FAI officials, media and fans - then had to wait on the runway until the fault was corrected.

    It is thought a member of the ground crew failed to remove a pin from one of the wheels.
    © 2007 ireland.com


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  • #2
    redzerdrog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,761 ✭✭✭redzerdrog


    Today FM Sport

    All the Eircom league managers are travelling
    with Ireland squad for Wednesday game. (nice jolly)
    Apparently the plane developed technical problems and
    returned to Dublin. When the problem was resolved one
    Of the Eircom managers refused to go back in the plane.
    It took them another half an hour to convince the unnamed
    manager back on the plane.

    my money is on rico:p


  • #3
    Seaneh
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,300 ✭✭✭✭Seaneh


    is it all managers or just the pl managers?

    What's the purpose?


  • #4
    gustavo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,206 ✭✭✭gustavo


    Its a backslapping FAI thing now that we are all one big happy family!


  • #5
    Blackjack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,628 ✭✭✭Blackjack


    patto_chan wrote:
    Hopefully not an omen of things to come. If the Gift Grub team get a hold of this it should be interesting.

    http://www.ireland.com/sports/soccer/2007/0205/1170363703824.html

    Republic flight grounded in Dublin

    Monday, February 5, 2007

    The Republic of Ireland's trip to San Marino has begun in farcical circumstances, with their plane forced to return to Dublin airport after 90 minutes in the air above the capital.

    The pilot on the Czech Airlines flight to Rimini discovered he was unable to raise the undercarriage after taking off but could not land again immediately until a slot became available.

    All passengers - including the Irish squad, FAI officials, media and fans - then had to wait on the runway until the fault was corrected.

    It is thought a member of the ground crew failed to remove a pin from one of the wheels.
    © 2007 ireland.com

    Not sure about the whole thing of a slot becoming available - I suspect the plane would have to burn off a load of fuel before it being safe for it to land. Aside from that, the pilot will have tried everything to sort out the landing gear before attempting to land. I can't imagine that Air Traffic Control would have allowed for a plane in difficulty to have to wait for a landing slot to become available. Mind you that's nothing to do with the football, but I'm fairly sure were fecked as regards having any chance of qualification from this group.


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