mikel97 wrote: » Its N2731G (prob CIA) yes Shannon
Departed at 1603.
Reported brake and nose wheel steering issues
..as well as a thorough inspection of any apron/runway it may have leaked hydraulic oil onto…
Apparently a hydraulic leak for the Delta plane. Getting towed back to the stand. I'd imagine that means a long delay or a cancellation?
Returning to stand.
Something seems to have delayed the takeoff for the Delta flight from Dublin to Atlanta DL 177.
I just checked it now. Apparently the dots give the altitude of the aircraft at that particular spot when you hover the mouse over them. (I'm using a PC) Much more accurate than previously where the altitude was harder to ascertain.
I think the aircraft shadows were always there, depending on your settings.
Had the plane icons always had shadows? Just noticed it now!
Also the track line is dotted instead of just plain
It has 3 feeds… for whatever reason, the disaster recovery plan to use either of the other two wasn't utilised.
Mission critical systems were functioning, so theoretically, they could have landed planes… it was all the people moving services which were out of action (building lights, escalators, lifts, baggage belts, charge points for electric ground tugs, information screens, etc….)
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Virgin relocating this morning
I do love that quote. Use it very oftennwhen people at work think chaos is planned.
Didn't realise it had a name ; "Hanlons Razor "
Urgent delivery of essential pharmaceuticals perhaps.
Have you ever heard of fluoridation SCADA?
Remote command and control of industrial plant which is often woefully secured.
Some years back the US/Israelis/both were able to destroy hundreds of extremely expensive and hard to obtain uranium enrichment centrifuges in a supposedly top secret plant in Iran because someone plugged an infected USB key into something that should never have had anything plugged into it.
But usually it's ports left open on the firewall and default passwords.
Regardless of any external interference or not, what is more worrying is that some eejit designed the electrical grid in the area in such a way as to supply pretty much the entirety of one of the world's busiest airports via a single point of failure - Hanlon's Razor - "never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity"
BA A380 making the short hop from LGW to LHR now.
https://www.flightradar24.com/BAW35JG/3990dc12
To drop off passengers on a private charter and return to base / the next pick-up?
Any number of reasons really.
Why would a 5 seater private plane fly from Swaffham Airfield (in Norfolk) to Weston Aerodrome, and then after a stop of no more than 30 minutes, fly back again?
Qantas' only other operations in Europe (in northern Winter - they have Perth-Rome in northern summer/Aus winter) are at CDG so would explain that particular diversion.
You'd think, but given the sheer amount of disruption and the likelihood that many passengers final destinations are going to be places other than London, it complicates matters.
Given that Qantas don't have many flights from Heathrow, it's possible it could be organized, but if you're flying with British Airways I can't imagine they have the capacity to even answer the phones to all the disrupted passengers.
Eurostar currently has availability at €264. Cheaper for the airline than hotac+meals etc in Paris?
Ouch yeah, a 17 hour flight and you're landing in Paris, ouch. At least another day there!
That's fair, lets just rephrase it to say that it would be well down the list of liklihoods.
Seems it was literally a transformer that went on fire and it spread throughout the site.
That must be rather embarrassing for Heathrow and the National grid that a substation over 6km away is both the main source of power and also the feed for backup power to the world's busiest airport and a simple fire can halt all airport operations.
My guess is most flights scheduled to land simply won't take off from their originating airport and only those that were in the air will have required diversion.
Surprised Quantas landed in Paris rather than Gatwick or Stanstead.
Has there been an electrical substation fire caused by them in the past causing widespread disruption at an airport?
And if substations going on fire causing absolute chaos wasn't on their radar it sure is now
That wouldn't be the most unlikely option.
because it’s right out of Russia’s play book….
Why think the most unlikely option?
1st thought came into my mind… Russian sabotage…. As this would be right up their street…
LHR daily 1,350+ flights affected. Never mind knock-on effects globally next few weeks. That's huge!
