could have decided larnica instead of Cairo for a few reasons:
-decending will require idle thrust as there is no need for an emergency decent for an engine failure, unless its blown up and taken half the wing with it. it will take time to decend which could be the same amount as flying to another airfield
-passed the turn around point so decided time to continue to different alternative. dont forget it takes time to turn around an aircraft in the air.
-need to burn fuel inorder ot land under MLW
-as stated earlier possable ATC understanding issues so went somewhere else where they can get better assistance
-company base, better fire cover, more familiar airfield
edit: forgot to say i know nothing about what happend here but just stating possibilities as some people just jumped to conclutions and passed very strong comments without having any idea what, where, when how it happend, and by the looks of it no realy understanding of the decission making involved.
the fact that a one runway may be shorter than another is not a problem providing that it is long enough for a single engine landing which is calculated before the flight with the other performance data.
an engine failure is major event but not as serious as suddenly having half the roof rip off, so you do the emergency drills for shut down then refer to the checklist for the rest of it.
if im not mistaken, last year a thomsonfly lost an engine on takeoff and was flying for over 2 hours before landing.
Last edited by Nashers; 11th Jul 2008 at 10:19.
Reason: a few dumb typos