Originally Posted by
Monkton3
Passing PIK today I noticed the Delta 767 is still there and I am assuming it probably will be for a while. It got me thinkingif Prestwick hadn't been available - or a housing estate as some would like - what other options would the crew have had?It overflew Glasgow and apparently needed almost the full length of Prestwick's runway before stopping.A highly flammable fully fuelled aircraft - ditch in the Clyde perhaps?
Needed most of the PIK runway, or chose to use most of it? Big difference. Unlikely it was fully fuelled from EDI or at MTOW anyway.The aircraft only had an engine shutdown, it wasn't on fire. So, in the event of PIK not being available, the crew would reasonably have had time to stay airborne to select a suitable landing runway or even would have been justified to firstly lose some fuel weight nearby if they thought they'd be tight in stopping at EDI or even GLA.