no clue - lots of posts - I lose my respect for a certain profession.
Okay - here is the gospel: 9 year old girl suffered a seizure in Y class. Medlink demanded immediate diversion. Closest airport was VIE, which is not suitable for A380, therefore on to MUC. M. O'G.. did a beautiful overweight landing. (Why dump 60 tons if you don't have to? Airbus SOP are lightyears ahead of Boeing when it comes to overweight landings). Trace files and E-logbook came out clean. The bird is back on the way to JFK by now.
Out of curiousity, how do you figure Boeings SOP doesn't allow for overweight landings? (Or better put, why is Airbus' thought process better than Boeings with this?) Boeing certainly allows you to land overweight and encourages that an approach not be delayed during an emergency to jettison fuel down to max landing weight. What am I missing?
Fred, I think what M5.5 is referrring to is that with Airbus if your V/S at touchdown is less than 360ft/min, then no inspection is due and you can get airborne again at your own discretion. Very useful when you have diverted somewhere with no qualified engineers to sign off the inspection in the Log.
This is going to become quite a regular occurrence. The law of probabilities would dictate that the increased number of passengers increases the likelihood of passenger related problems. Wait until the high density version enters service.
Medilink will 90% of the time recommend a diversion because that is the easiest thing for them to do. They have no idea of the difficulties or problems that the crew face during unforeseen diversions nor do they care, their job is done. This may become a big problem on more remote routes.
Actual landing weight was around 447 tons. And the very sad fact...the little girl did not make it. But a very nice move from the Munich Airport... they will not charge anything for the whole costs incl. chopper to the hospital.
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