Weary
20th May 2013, 10:24
Just got back from an Atlantic crossing.
Around midnight zulu (perhaps a little earlier - didn't note the time) I heard on international HF (New York ARINC) an aircraft reporting overhearing a second aircraft that was supposedly communicating with a third aircraft, which reported a "cockpit fire, ditching in the ocean". The approximate position given (which I had difficulty discerning on HF) sounded like it was somewhere around 75W?
It was quite a long exchange with NY, who subsequently passed it on to another agency when it appeared that the aircraft was not supposedly in his airspace.
Any other crews overhear the same conversation?
Anyone else got any info?
Hopefully it was a false alarm - I cannot imagine the terror of ditching in the ocean at night.
Around midnight zulu (perhaps a little earlier - didn't note the time) I heard on international HF (New York ARINC) an aircraft reporting overhearing a second aircraft that was supposedly communicating with a third aircraft, which reported a "cockpit fire, ditching in the ocean". The approximate position given (which I had difficulty discerning on HF) sounded like it was somewhere around 75W?
It was quite a long exchange with NY, who subsequently passed it on to another agency when it appeared that the aircraft was not supposedly in his airspace.
Any other crews overhear the same conversation?
Anyone else got any info?
Hopefully it was a false alarm - I cannot imagine the terror of ditching in the ocean at night.