dxb?????
 

Why in the world would they go back to DXB why not land at Bahrain they were on fire, remember Swiss air crash, instead of wanting to dump fuel and go to Halifax , if they would have gone to Muncton right away at first sign of fire they would have made it.

for that matter DOH was close by ..

only the blackbox can tell us what made the crew head back to DXB .. :ooh:

Of course they do.
 

They would have simply thawed the clone embryos they secretly hatched from the stem cells that were extracted during your joining medical.

But in the future EK crew accomodation will be dispersed and moved underground.

We always make perfect decisions after the event don't we. No-one except those two fellas know what indications they had or why they did what they did.

Just the same way the Swissair Capt did what he thought was right at the time. Happens every day, luckily we don't face the real life and death ones like this very often, and our not really perfect answer to the situation actions still get everyone down ok without the names needing to be published in the media.

the Don

Quite right Don.
There but for the grace go any one of us.
Condolences to the families of the gentlemen involved.
This scenario has to be every pilots nightmare.
RIP fellas.......

For those curious about why/where they turned back.... Bahrain airspace does not mean they were actually close to Bahrain. Bahrain ACC controls a lot of airspace from UAE to Riyadh/Kuwait (almost).

So an aircraft can be closer to DXB but controlled from BAH.

And its a huge argument in these parts, as to whether its the Arabian or Persian Gulf ! Same splash of water either name.

On the radio it was Doha or Dubai, they choose Dubai and didn't make the approach ( to high, to fast), went around and crashed close to DSO. ( ATC told them, YOU ARE TOO LOW, TOO LOW)

I feel so sad for this 2 guys and they families,

What is the book procedure for fire on a freighter?

I understood that as no fire suppression/extinguishing systems are fitted, that the idea was that if a fire broke out you remained at altitude and depressurised - thereby starving the fire of oxygen.

Jet---perhaps, but they radioed fire and smoke in the FLIGHT DECK. Could not even change freq's since there was so much much smoke.

They did the right thing---tried to get down ASAP!