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Old 16th Jan 2003, 03:11
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Carbon Life Form
 
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Manaus

Diverted into Manaus with the 767-400 enroute Sao-Paulo-NY
due to the loss of one engine driven Generator, the APU'S refusal
to come on line, and our unwillingness to fly another 7hrs on one generator.

Dumped 20,000lbs of fuel into the Amazon and arrived in Manaus, appropriately, to an evironmental convention that had absorbed all but 70 hotel rooms and we had over 270 souls.

Answer was a room each for all crewmembers, while everyone else got to know each other a lot better than expected.
Interesting place though. As stated earlier Amazon is more like a lake at that point, very wide, and lot's of wildlife.

Left the next night after replacing all GCU'S which was still not the cause of the problem, as, a week later in Gatwick during a 'c'
check the same aircraft's generator's would not come on line after start.

After some trouble shooting it was resolved to be a software problem, but was still enough of a concern with it's history that we ferried back empty to NY the next day, leaving LGW at 0700
which was quite unusual.

I picked up some stuffed Piranha heads in Manaus and brought them home for the kids, after which one went missing accompanied by a very sick dog. Hard to believe those teeth didn't cause a problem.
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