Finnair Mariehamn-Helsinki diverts to Turku
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Finnair Mariehamn-Helsinki diverts to Turku
Just qurious as news on TV-Finland reported that Finnair Mariehamn-Helsinki flight had diverted to Turku due to insufficient fuel reserves and to the fact that gear could not be retracted after takeoff (Pinns still in place?). There where 40 PAX on board
Distance from Mariehamn to Helsinki is 152 nm (Thats a 55 minute block or so) and from Marie to Turku 74 nm.
One would think that ATR could make Marie Helsinki with gear and flaps down with no need to divert anywhere... So this must be another case of journalist professionalism. That is they have no clue what they are talking about.
Next time watching news keep in mind how much knowledge journos have on aviation subjects, they probably know equally little about everything else they are reporting... Shouldn't "news"be called "Lies" instead
"Next the 9 o'clock lies"
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Distance from Mariehamn to Helsinki is 152 nm (Thats a 55 minute block or so) and from Marie to Turku 74 nm.
One would think that ATR could make Marie Helsinki with gear and flaps down with no need to divert anywhere... So this must be another case of journalist professionalism. That is they have no clue what they are talking about.
Next time watching news keep in mind how much knowledge journos have on aviation subjects, they probably know equally little about everything else they are reporting... Shouldn't "news"be called "Lies" instead
"Next the 9 o'clock lies"
Kiitti vaan ja thunder
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I totally agree with you on that one.
Example 1:
A short while back, an aircraft was ordered on a go-around, while on final for RWY 30 at CPH. A Boeing 747 (Thai int., I believe) had not yet completed a crossing after landing on either 04 or 22. In the danish press, this was called a near miss, "Emergency in Kastrup Airport".
Example 2:
Another wolf-cry was when a captain chose to return after a spontaneous cabin-oxygenmaskdeployment. This was also judged to be an emergencysituation...
What would they call a CAT I-missed approach? "We nearly hit the ground...!"(?)
The problem is, that the journalists, in their papparazzi-like attempts to sell more papers, in reality are scaring people from flying. Definitely NOT a thing, that we need in these days, especially since most of what they report is totally out of proportion.
After the tragedie in Linate, back in '01, some newspaperwriters even cried out long and loud over the fact, that SAS had the nerve to have regular flights to airports without a ground radar?
Please, gentlemen of the press...
Example 1:
A short while back, an aircraft was ordered on a go-around, while on final for RWY 30 at CPH. A Boeing 747 (Thai int., I believe) had not yet completed a crossing after landing on either 04 or 22. In the danish press, this was called a near miss, "Emergency in Kastrup Airport".
Example 2:
Another wolf-cry was when a captain chose to return after a spontaneous cabin-oxygenmaskdeployment. This was also judged to be an emergencysituation...
What would they call a CAT I-missed approach? "We nearly hit the ground...!"(?)
The problem is, that the journalists, in their papparazzi-like attempts to sell more papers, in reality are scaring people from flying. Definitely NOT a thing, that we need in these days, especially since most of what they report is totally out of proportion.
After the tragedie in Linate, back in '01, some newspaperwriters even cried out long and loud over the fact, that SAS had the nerve to have regular flights to airports without a ground radar?
Please, gentlemen of the press...
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I'll start out by saying that I agree to what you both have to say.
The size of the letters on the first page of the papers, are set depending on how famous the most famous person onboard was.
I've talked to the captain on that CPH-flight that were mentioned earlier, and that was a standard Go-around procedure. The papers said seconds from a crash, the truth says 2 min from the ground
The size of the letters on the first page of the papers, are set depending on how famous the most famous person onboard was.
I've talked to the captain on that CPH-flight that were mentioned earlier, and that was a standard Go-around procedure. The papers said seconds from a crash, the truth says 2 min from the ground
