Timing
Unless I'm missing something, the timing seems odd:
- YPAD TAF updated at 172100
- Diversion occurs at 172300
I find it hard to believe a crew, on discovering that their destination went below Alternate minima, continued with either no alternate (it seems they had no planned alternate based on them never getting near Adelaide) or with an alternate allegedly below the alternate minima.
So if they didn't know their destination was PROB30 two hours before they diverted - why not? The layers of the cheese should have been:
- ACARS updates
- company operations department
- ATC (would this warrant a Hazard alert? I thought they were for METARs going SPECI?)
Everyone else seems to have turned back (except the QF - where did he come from? Did he also not get the message?)
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