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British Airways B747 makes two Emergency Landings

  • 09-08-2013 12:56pm
    #1
    poteen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 503 ✭✭✭


    Just caught the tail end of this on BBC news and went online to check it out.

    A 747 on route to Heathrow from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia made 2 emergency stops.


    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23631153


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  • #2
    smurfjed
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,431 ✭✭✭✭smurfjed


    made 2 emergency stops
    They weren't really emergency landings as they had flaps extended. The problem was that once the flaps are extended, the aircraft cannot fly over 20,000 ft (or whatever the 744 limitation is), so the fuel burn etc is increased, they sensibly decided that it was safer to dump fuel and land again.

    Saw the aircraft yesterday, Riyadh went over 43 degrees yesterday, so if they kept the people onboard, i seriously hope that they had an external air conditioning truck.

    smurfjed


  • #3
    poteen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 503 ✭✭✭poteen


    smurfjed wrote: »
    They weren't really emergency landings as they had flaps extended. The problem was that once the flaps are extended, the aircraft cannot fly over 20,000 ft (or whatever the 744 limitation is), so the fuel burn etc is increased, they sensibly decided that it was safer to dump fuel and land again.

    Saw the aircraft yesterday, Riyadh went over 43 degrees yesterday, so if they kept the people onboard, i seriously hope that they had an external air conditioning truck.

    smurfjed

    Call it what you want but that's hardly the point. Returning once is understandable but to return 24 hrs later with the same plane and fault raises major questions over technical procedures on the ground. How was the fault deemed fixed by the second day when it clearly wasnt?
    The person sitting on the wing watching fuel been dumped from 20,000ft twice in as many days may have been less understanding. I think a certain amount of people chose to wait on the aircraft and protest but most disembarked.


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