DAL9

[Blakey2229]

Hi all,
First post and all that!
Why has DAL9 just done several circuits of Somerset?
Im playing with flightradar24 and I can see it went as far as Ireland before turning back.
Also anyone know why Cheddar had a BA 747 come over the Gorge last Saturday, it followed the M4 coridoor before making a massive left turn before Bristol? Very strange.
Cheers.

[treadigraph]

If it was reasonably low, I'll hazard a guess that the BA 747 was positioning from Heathrow to Cardiff for maintenance?

[Blakey2229]

Cheers Tread,
Yep the 747 was low, caught it right above the Gorge while making a turn. Hadn't seen one that low over Cheddar before.
There also wasn't any destination against its call sign.

[TopBunk]

This (http://www.thebasource.com/index.html) site usually has information on things like Cardiff maintenance flights.

[DaveReidUK]

Yep the 747 was low, caught it right above the Gorge while making a turn.
Hadn't seen one that low over Cheddar before.

G-BNLM departed Heathrow for Cardiff just after 3pm on Saturday. That would have been what you saw.

There also wasn't any destination against its call sign.

You wouldn't expect FlightRadar24 to display a routeing for a non-scheduled flight (BAW9170 in this case).

[DaveReidUK]

And back on the original topic, DAL9 landed back at Heathrow an hour ago, having spent 90 minutes presumably burning off fuel to get below max landing weight.

[Airclues]

Not the first time (or the second);

http://www.pprune.org/spectators-balcony-spotters-corner/444310-dal9-lhr-atl-returning-heathrow.html

Dave