Originally Posted by
Mad (Flt) Scientist
There was a post earlier about duty time. Could it have been that the transat crew was actually out of time, so while other a/c were able to leave again after a couple of hours, the transat plane was stuck, perhaps waiting for a replacement crew to drive up from Montreal (a good two hours drive in the conditions, i would say, never mind tracking down a crew to start with)
Just a random thought.
The CARS say max Flt plan time 14 hrs under situations like this you can go 15 hrs and
under abnormal situations such as this up to 17 hours duty time