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EI-DCK Squawk 7700 (FR4523)

  • 06-02-2012 3:59pm
    #1
    castie
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 3,807 ✭✭✭


    Bit confused here.

    According to flightradar24 it continued to destination anyway?


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  • #2
    Quaderno
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 817 ✭✭✭Quaderno


    Loss of cabin pressure: http://avherald.com/h?article=44a739d3&opt=0
    Must have been a nice low sightseeing flight across the continent.


  • #3
    kub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,562 ✭✭✭kub


    I certainly do not envy that pilot when he has to sit down and explain his fuel figures.


  • #4
    lord lucan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,577 ✭✭✭lord lucan


    kub wrote: »
    I certainly do not envy that pilot when he has to sit down and explain his fuel figures.

    Whilst the final decision is the Captains,i'd be surprised if he didn't contact FR OPs for 'guidance'. The cost of continuing to fly in order to burn off fuel to return to BGY and then re-arrange PAX onto another flight or wait for a fix for the decompression issue may have been more than burning more fuel flying at low level to Belgium.


  • #5
    IngazZagni
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,618 ✭✭✭IngazZagni


    If you think about it, it makes perfect sense for the aircraft to continue flying to its destination. The incident happened 40nm southeast of Zurich. Note what's south of that. A big giant mountain range called the Alps (which by the way it was lucky it didn't happen while they were over the Alps) and it would be impossible for them to divert back to BGY because the mountains would be above them.

    So their other option is to go to an en-route alternate, but what's the point? The aircraft is still perfectly fine below 10,000 feet so if they have enough fuel to make it to CRL, then they should. Also CRL is a Ryanair maintenance base so they can get engineers to check it out as soon as it lands and the pax are at their destination just maybe requiring clean underwear ;)


  • #6
    Quaderno
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 817 ✭✭✭Quaderno


    kub wrote: »
    I certainly do not envy that pilot when he has to sit down and explain his fuel figures.

    Maybe he could argue that the clutch blew up right after takeoff and so he was stuck in second gear all the way to Belgium :)


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  • #7
    DannyD
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 852 ✭✭✭DannyD


    How did you find out about the initial squak ?


  • #8
    Buffman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,875 ✭✭✭Buffman


    DannyD wrote: »
    How did you find out about the initial squak ?

    Probably the Flightradar24 twitter.

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  • #9
    castie
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 3,807 ✭✭✭castie


    Buffman wrote: »
    Probably the Flightradar24 twitter.

    Yeah thats where I saw it.


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