DHC6 Mayday and diversion to Gatwick
 

I understand that a DHC6 that was being ferried from Canada to the Maldives diverted to Gatwick in the early hours of Wednesday morning after a fire that left the aircraft without any electrical power. The story I have heard makes it sound like a trouser change might have been required after the landing butif it is as I was told well done to the crew.

Hope all is well. Happened to be speaking to one of the crew on Tues night at Birmingham.

DHC6 Mayday and diversion to Gatwick
 

Hope he was on wheels?:ooh:

Don't worry twochai..
 

...floats perfectly suited for LGW/West Sussex in late Feb :ok:

The aircraft was ferrying Calgary, Frobisher Bay, Keflavik, Birmingham, Dubrovnik, Luxor, Muscat, Male (Maldives). After departing Birmingham, it was somewhere over Kent on its 6hr 10min trip to Dubrovnik when it suffered an electrical fire in the cockpit, losing all lights and all electrically powered instruments. The flames were just a couple of feet from the auxiliary long-range fuel tanks that were fitted in the cabin! The crew managed to extinguish the fire and inform LATCC of their situation by handheld transceiver, with navigation being accomplished by handheld GPS. A torch was used to view the attitude indicator and altimeter.
Post from a John Dyer post at flightglobal.com

Well done guys!:ok:

Medals all round - BZs too, throw hats in the air.

I love a happy ending:ok:

Sir George Cayley

Very well done indeed!

I suspect it would be a trouser change and quite possibly be an upholstery change.

Happy Ending indeed Sir George!
 

Nice to learn that portable TX and GPS were being carried... but sh*t, they were lucky they weren't nearer the Alps eh? :ok: