Oh no 210 landing gear trouble - call your loved ones?

[rioncentu]

Passengers told to 'call your loved ones' aboard ChartAir Cessna 210 flight | Courier Mail


Passengers told to call their loved ones??

[beat ups are fun]

Oh my god! are you serious?

[b_sta]

Surely the pilot was taking the piss, if he actually said anything to that effect at all.

[RadioSaigon]

If that's a photo of the actual aircraft, it strikes me that the registration is pretty appropriate to the reported circumstance... WiMP

[roundaboutway]

Looks like the media making something out of nothing...again!

I note that nowhere in the article did it say the pilot told the passengers to call loved ones.

[tom88]

Another article of pure fiction from the N.T. News.

[206greaser]

Which one of you chartair boys pissed off the NT "News"? They really seem to have it in for the company!

Cheers,
Greaser

[rioncentu]

Yep there's no floods or cyclones or tsunamis or meltdowns today so they dream up crap like that

[eternity]

Although having no real info on this.....


It would not surprise me that whilst the pilot was holding to try and sort out the problem a conversation went something like this....

Passenger - "Can I turn on/use my phone?"
Pilot - "Um ok."


Which can then allow the NT News to use such a misleading headline.

[The Green Goblin]

Or the passengers went:

Pax: ehhh pah-lot can I use me puckin phone?

Pilot: Um, standby, I'm kinda busy right now

Pax: ehh dats okay ay, ah just godda call up me brudda. Iz dis gunna take long eh Pah-lot? Im a kinda thirsty ay?

Pilot: Standby and await further instructions.

Pax: How bout a schmoke den ay? You got wun I can borrow?

Pilot:

Pilot: Pan Pan, Pan Pan, Pan Pan, 210 xxx xxx xxx, gear issues and injured passenger, request immediate vectors for final.

ATC: xxx, copy the pan pan, state the nature of the injuries.

Pilot: I dunno, if you look at your window, you'll see him in about 5 seconds.....

ATC: Understood.

[alidad]

In my day.......a mate had an u/c problem in a C210 and got the black fella to hang out the door with a cargo strap and lock it in place.

And I used to carry the horse twenty miles to school everyday.