Originally Posted by
Awol57
I have been to the airport there a few times, I guess I was just playing a bit of "what if" as well.
Living in the NW I have a fair idea of the resources available and I just suspect it wouldn't be as straightforward as some people seem to think if it did all go pear shaped I guess was more my point. Sure if you have no options I'd be headed there but I can only presume at the time with the information they had they decided PH or somewhere further south was a better option was all.
An extra 359 in a town of about 2500 is a fair impost even with an airline potentially throwing money around.
If they had landed at Learmonth, wouldn't it be fairly straightforward to send another plane up from Perth to pick up the pax and transport them back to Perth on a plane that wasn't trying to shake itself to bits.