747 "emergency" at Cardiff
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I think he meant staff on the ground at Cardiff
After all, having passengers on the aircraft might have been a clue to the CC that it wasn't a ferry flight
I'm guessing here of course
Duh
After all, having passengers on the aircraft might have been a clue to the CC that it wasn't a ferry flight
I'm guessing here of course
Duh
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SPEEDBIRD!
Are you telling me that the cabin crew wern't informed of this diversion?? how is this posiible,,,,!!!!!!??????
CHEERS!!!!!!!!!!!
Are you telling me that the cabin crew wern't informed of this diversion?? how is this posiible,,,,!!!!!!??????
CHEERS!!!!!!!!!!!
Rowardennan
Thanks for pointing out the obvious
For such a young ac and modern design it seems rather surprising to have this problem.
In my experience, new a/c designs often have problems early on. It's only after about ten years service that operators settle down and the manufacturers come up with the correct mods.
But in many ways you are right. If I bought a car brand new and it had as many faults as new a/c do i'd go back to my bike.
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Hovis, no offense, but for anyone capable of reading, you were asking the same question a week ago, in the same thread. And heck, if you scroll back, you'll see I even stated that this is not the first "smoke in cockpit" event that a single operator had to declare an emergency on, on the same type, and on a transatlantic flight.
If you ask me, the question, "is this a common problem?" is the wrong question to ask on a "rumour network".
By definition, no emergency is a common problem. If it were, it either wouldn't be an emergency, someone would issue a fix, or the whole fleet would be grounded until they did. "Common emergencies" just don't bode well for business.
From my experience reading this board, the folks "in the know", (and I sure as hell am not one of them) can provide anecdotal evidence -- what happened in a certain set of circumstances -- and not the quantitative evidence needed to make a judgment such as "this is common". If you want the real dirt, there are plenty of lonely singles in Everett. Hit the weights for a few weeks, go out there, and you'll earn the pulitzer, or whatever it is that's the British equivalent.
Or, if there's an aerospace engineering rumour network, they might know. But I think it's a stretch to have someone say "Yeah, half the time I fly a 777-200, I land with smoke so thick it sets off the aft lav detectors. Thank God for autoland."
If you ask me, the question, "is this a common problem?" is the wrong question to ask on a "rumour network".
By definition, no emergency is a common problem. If it were, it either wouldn't be an emergency, someone would issue a fix, or the whole fleet would be grounded until they did. "Common emergencies" just don't bode well for business.
From my experience reading this board, the folks "in the know", (and I sure as hell am not one of them) can provide anecdotal evidence -- what happened in a certain set of circumstances -- and not the quantitative evidence needed to make a judgment such as "this is common". If you want the real dirt, there are plenty of lonely singles in Everett. Hit the weights for a few weeks, go out there, and you'll earn the pulitzer, or whatever it is that's the British equivalent.
Or, if there's an aerospace engineering rumour network, they might know. But I think it's a stretch to have someone say "Yeah, half the time I fly a 777-200, I land with smoke so thick it sets off the aft lav detectors. Thank God for autoland."
