BA emergency landing Barcelona
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Strange Odors in Aircraft
I saw a story yesterday about this same problem, although the plane was a BAe146. Everyone onboard was incapacitated. The crew finally managed to get masks on and land safely.
Oil was found to be dripping from number two.
Here's a Google page on the subject. Not uncommon, apparently. Has to do with TCPs.
TCP in aircraft bleed air systems - Google Search
Oil was found to be dripping from number two.
Here's a Google page on the subject. Not uncommon, apparently. Has to do with TCPs.
TCP in aircraft bleed air systems - Google Search
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to be honest, the travelling public have no idea how busy the flightdeck are when something like this happens.Even the cabin crew find it an eye opener when they come in the sim and see it happening live and direct.
communicating with the pax is well down the list and invariably whatever you say just makes them more scared, less information is more.
communicating with the pax is well down the list and invariably whatever you say just makes them more scared, less information is more.
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BA's Airbus and 757 aircraft cannot dump fuel. Very poor customer relations not to tell the customers what is going on for 2 hours. Power probably off on the ground to allow the engineer to investigate without frying himself on the busbars. Strange that pax were not taken off though. With a defect like that I would have expected ground engine runs at high power at least to confirm it's fixed after working on it.
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So were the pax left on board for 2 hours AFTER the landing, sat in the dark? Or were they onboard a total of 2 hours - includding boarding, pushback, taxi and the short flight?
I find it strange if they were made to sit there 2 hrs after landing that they weren't ASKING what was going on or making phone calls or rioting...
Were there no ground crew, fire trucks, police, etc. there for those 2 hrs? If so why didn't they ask questions as to what was going on?
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I find it strange if they were made to sit there 2 hrs after landing that they weren't ASKING what was going on or making phone calls or rioting...
Were there no ground crew, fire trucks, police, etc. there for those 2 hrs? If so why didn't they ask questions as to what was going on?
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320Driver, I'm not a driver - and I hope my handle makes that unambiguously clear. I'm also well aware that reflexive journo-bashing doesn't do anyone any favours. However, that particular write-up was sensationalistic at the expense of being informative - and I believe it deserved a bit of a ribbing. Also, what is it with the desire to use "plunged" in any story involving an aviation mishap?
Gordonakelly, at no point did the story make it clear that the lights and IFE screens went off during taxi, and as has been pointed out, the shutdown of that particular cabin power bus during this kind of problem is standard practice. However I'm sure that if the crew believed there was any danger to the passengers you would have been informed. Sometimes it's just better to inform once those with the know-how have all the information to hand.
Everyone, apologies for premature oar insertion.
Gordonakelly, at no point did the story make it clear that the lights and IFE screens went off during taxi, and as has been pointed out, the shutdown of that particular cabin power bus during this kind of problem is standard practice. However I'm sure that if the crew believed there was any danger to the passengers you would have been informed. Sometimes it's just better to inform once those with the know-how have all the information to hand.
Everyone, apologies for premature oar insertion.
