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Old 16th Dec 2018, 08:06
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What on earth are you people thinking ?

ETOPS is to allow you to continue when there is no suitable airport to land at, not an excuse to keep flying on one engine because landing might be inconvenient. The single engine landing checklist says “ land at the nearest suitable airport” and the crew did exactly that...... A wise decision !

Iran has a long reputation of behaving correctly when it comes to emergency’s that are threat to life and will no doubt behave correctly in this case.

The US export ban is intended to put pressure on the Iranian govenment NOT strand almost new American supplied aircraft in Iran, part of the export controls allow for special licences to be issued just to allow for cases such as this in this situation the US product is clearly not being supplied to Iran but being fitted to a Norwegian aircraft to enable it to leave Iran.

All a bit of a storm in a tea cup.
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