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

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


Passengers told to call their loved ones??

Oh my god! are you serious? :ugh:

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

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

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.

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

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

Cheers,
Greaser

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

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.

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: :ugh: :mad::mad::mad:

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.....:ouch:

ATC: Understood.

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.:ok:

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