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Shiver me timbers!
2nd Jun 2010, 07:55
Ahoy!
Anyone know what time this is due to depart?
It it from Heathrow?
How do they select crew for this flight?
Is it a normal scheduled flight or private?
ukdean
2nd Jun 2010, 08:09
Looks like its out of LHR. Dont know Flight time, England team due to meet at hotel in Heartfordshire at 16.00 so would presume a early evening flight i.e between 19.00-21.00.
Would be good if someone could confirm flight time. I need an excuse to get away from the missus.
AircraftOperations
2nd Jun 2010, 10:45
I believe it's VS 9983 LHR-JNB departing at 21.00
adz555666
2nd Jun 2010, 11:22
Anybody know who took the USA team & what plane it was?
Heard it was a 17hour flight!
Best Wishes
Adam
Flightmech
2nd Jun 2010, 12:25
I guess the hotel in Hertfordshire will be Sopwell House in St. Albans?
Hopefully they have better luck than the poor Nigerians. Stuck in STN after there Luzair 767 (CS-TQI) had tech issues. I heard that the Nigerians refused to get back on it so an alternate aircraft was sourced. Anyone konw what the alternate was? I saw the Luzair 767 depart to Doncaster of all places yesterday afternoon.
I couldn't figure out why the Nigerians would end up in the UK between Nigeria and South Africa but apparently they've been on a training camp here!
AndoniP
2nd Jun 2010, 12:58
flightmech-
it used to be sopwell house but i believe that's changed to the grove in watford.
US team went with SA, looking at the pictures it looks like a A340 to me.
brs planespotter
2nd Jun 2010, 19:23
is the a/c inquestion a b744?a340? what would be the flying time?would the a/c and crew stay down there for the duration??any replies would be great thnks:)
springbok702
2nd Jun 2010, 19:54
The US team arrived in South Africa on the scheduled SAA flight from Washington.. so far the only team to arrive on a chartered flight are the Australians, the rest have been on scheduled flights, the Germans are due to arrive this weekend on the first Lufthansa A380.
olivermbs
3rd Jun 2010, 05:44
Italians are flying MXP-JNB on the 8th of June, aircraft positions back to FCO the next day :ok:
ericlday
3rd Jun 2010, 06:27
brs planespotter.....G VRED A346
Planemike
3rd Jun 2010, 07:48
is the a/c inquestion a b744?a340? what would be the flying time?would the a/c and crew stay down there for the duration??any replies would be great thnkshttp://images.ibsrv.net/ibsrv/res/src:www.pprune.org/get/images/smilies/smile.gif
Why would they (want to) do that?!!!!
Planemike
Fernanjet
4th Jun 2010, 12:02
would the a/c and crew stay down there for the duration??
I assume you do not have a career in ops?:ugh:
At least if you did....i assume the airline went bust!!