Azerbaijan Goss
 

What's the Azerbaijan goss?

Intermittent cargo smoke indication. Precautionary diversion.

So in other words a Qantas Cessna horrifyingly death plunged towards a former Russian territory. Russian sympathising rebels held the passengers and crew hostage until the aircraft was refuelled, it then left for Heathrow after the passengers had their 15 minutes of fame, while regaling the worlds media about their terrifying experience? Or it just landed?

Now the fun begins. Trying to get the passengers out. If they fired the bottles then you can kiss goodbye the A380 schedule for the next week. Press are already having a field day about this I see.

Or they can just leave the hold empty and arrange for the bags to be sent later. Some would probably argue they may get there sooner!

Every chance of that. Swissport aren't involved....

Presumably at that point on a flight from Singapore to London, there are fairly few airfields available which can take an A380? Hence the precautionary 180 over Georgia.

Can, say, Ankara or Athens take 380s? Perhaps folk more knowledgeable than I will comment?

I believe one of the terminals at Buka was modified a while back to provide two A380 capable aerobridge bays. Not sure if LH or EY operate A380s there but they do operate something to the airport.

There's a few available, company approved options after Baku. Trabzon, Ankara, Istanbul, Larnaca and Athens are all usable alternates for diversion following a significant failure such as this one.

Aerial, Last time I was at Buka the terminal was just a little tin hut for the Paps to keep out of the sun.

Would appear to more than a tin hut now. Quite a modern facility.

Looks like a replacement is about to ferry ex SYD to GYD to collect everyone.

How would you feel, called out from standby on Christmas Eve to go to Azerbaijan for God knows how long, guess thats why they get the big bucks.

Back in 2014 a Singapore Airlines A380 enroute from London to Singapore landed there due to a pressurisation problem. Not that many options available in that area if you need to get it on the ground ASAP.

Yes seems that way

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heydar...tional_Airport

OK, I'll explain since no-one picked it. Post by aerial perspective - https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....79c7b39573.png

Interestingly, I've been to both - Buka in a RAAF Falcon 900, and Baku for a refuel in a 604. Buka was a sh!tty strip with a tin shed, Baku was effing enormous. Buka was busy as hell, Baku didnt have a single movement in our 45 minutes on the ground.

Spare 380 on the way with Syd based engineers aboard.The QF PR machine has of course been telling everyone what a great job is being done in assisting the passengers.
I wonder if they have actually worked out how many of the text messages they have sent have actually been received in the middle of nowhere,guess that wouldnt be a consideration though.

Well it’s a recovery at least. It would seem things are worse over in Virgin land but that PR machine seems to be working a treat not a single word out of that camp.

With a population of 2+ million people and a history of hosting quite a few international events, I doubt that telecommunications would be the problem you unkindly refer to.