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A Freedom Airlines Boeing 737-300 register ZK-FDM operating flight number SJ 324 departing Melbourne for Hamilton while taxing from taxiway E onto Taxiway P ran off the taxiway completely getting all three gears bogged in soft soil. This happened around 1934 local when taxing past it didn?ft look to good as flight crew still trying high power to get it self out!!!
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Freedom 737-300 stranded!
Freedom To Investigate Plane Stranding
05/10/2004 06:35 PM
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Freedom Air will be investigating how one of their planes got stuck at Melbourne airport, stranding all the passengers.
The flight was bound for Hamilton.
General Manager Michael Young says the plane's left-hand lane landing gear got caught in soft turf on the taxi-way.
He says the plane was going very slowly and no one was hurt in the incident.
At this stage, he says they have got no idea how the landing-gear got to be so far off to the side in the first place.
He says that is something they will investigate once they have recovered the plane and got all the passengers and crew back to New Zealand.
Nearly 100 people on the Freedom Air plane have spent the night in a Melbourne hotel.
Freedom Air General Manager Michael Young says it has now been recovered and is in the hangar.
He says it will undergo comprehensive checks but there does not look to be any structural damage.
05/10/2004 06:35 PM
NewstalkZB
Freedom Air will be investigating how one of their planes got stuck at Melbourne airport, stranding all the passengers.
The flight was bound for Hamilton.
General Manager Michael Young says the plane's left-hand lane landing gear got caught in soft turf on the taxi-way.
He says the plane was going very slowly and no one was hurt in the incident.
At this stage, he says they have got no idea how the landing-gear got to be so far off to the side in the first place.
He says that is something they will investigate once they have recovered the plane and got all the passengers and crew back to New Zealand.
Nearly 100 people on the Freedom Air plane have spent the night in a Melbourne hotel.
Freedom Air General Manager Michael Young says it has now been recovered and is in the hangar.
He says it will undergo comprehensive checks but there does not look to be any structural damage.
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Just saw the pictures on Ch10 News. The guy cut the corner and became bogged off the taxiway. Very poor show. Just no excuse for this.
LCC. You pay peanuts, you get monkeys. Surprised it hasnt happened to VB or J* yet. Give it time I s'pose...
LCC. You pay peanuts, you get monkeys. Surprised it hasnt happened to VB or J* yet. Give it time I s'pose...
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perhaps you could give the benefit of your expertise with reference to a QF737 which left the runway whilst landing with a 3, yes that's 3 (T H R E E) knot croswind?
This link refers.
Mungo Wouldn't an aircraft that has been bogged be subsquently grounded pending an inspection?
perhaps you could give the benefit of your expertise with reference to a QF737 which left the runway whilst landing with a 3, yes that's 3 (T H R E E) knot croswind?
This link refers.
Mungo Wouldn't an aircraft that has been bogged be subsquently grounded pending an inspection?
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Claret. Thanks for clarifying that. I'm now suitably chastised. NOT!!!
HOW RIDICULOUS. There is a huge difference between taxiing and landing. Now, I don't know ecactly what happened during that approach, and neither Sir, do you. The investigation continues.
Now, Claret? Would you like a lesson in the basics of handling an aeroplane and the differences between landing and taxiing? I will submit to you once again that departing a taxyway in an effort to cut the corner is unforgiveable. YOU HAVE THE OPTION TO STOP and figure out where you are and what you are doing!!
HOW RIDICULOUS. There is a huge difference between taxiing and landing. Now, I don't know ecactly what happened during that approach, and neither Sir, do you. The investigation continues.
Now, Claret? Would you like a lesson in the basics of handling an aeroplane and the differences between landing and taxiing? I will submit to you once again that departing a taxyway in an effort to cut the corner is unforgiveable. YOU HAVE THE OPTION TO STOP and figure out where you are and what you are doing!!
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Thanks for turning another thread into a pissing contest quim!
We could all go on for hours bringing up dirt on different companies...... Do you really think there will be a conclusion to your stupid game?
We could all go on for hours bringing up dirt on different companies...... Do you really think there will be a conclusion to your stupid game?
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Reports are that tar was laid at side of taxiway during WIP to keep dust down. Not readily apparent to flightcrew that couldn't support a/c weight. If this is the case then you better be prepared to eat your arrogant drivel, quim.
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So, as a matter of course CATAWAMPUS, do you let the acft nosewheel leave the taxiway centreline. I ask this because, in most companies (apart from LCC's apparently!), you do NOT. EVER! And this guy clearly.... DID!
CATAWAMPUS
Whilst I agree with the general thrust of your post on this thread in that it is easy in hindsight to slander our peers without having the full insight of the events, I disagree with your argument about the
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The centrelines on the taxiway are there for pilots to follow accurately no matter what the aircraft size.
Whilst I agree with the general thrust of your post on this thread in that it is easy in hindsight to slander our peers without having the full insight of the events, I disagree with your argument about the
tar was laid at side of taxiway during WIP to keep dust down
The centrelines on the taxiway are there for pilots to follow accurately no matter what the aircraft size.