UA914 today

[Southpole]

Left CDG to Washington and going back to probably London.
Declared emergency. Any news?

[Carbon Bootprint]

UA flight status page confirms flight is diverting to LHR, ETA 13:24 local.

[Carbon Bootprint]

Now on the ground, came into LHR on a direct easterly heading. Ship is N677UA. Reportedly descended about 15,000 feet in three minutes.

[SeenItAll]

UA website now says will depart LHR for IAD at 14:16. But it has been inaccurate before. Was on this flight just three days ago.

[Carbon Bootprint]

It was apparently diverted due to an unspecified mx issue, covered here.

[DaveReidUK]

A well-known expression involving mountains and molehills springs to mind ...

[Carbon Bootprint]

Yup, most likely a serious non-issue despite the frantic gaspings of the Mirror.

[Heathrow Harry]

wellll it wasn't the Mirror that declared an emergemcy -

suggests it was a bit more thean the usual maintenance glitch.....

[MarkerInbound]

I was on brand AA a couple months ago DFW-HNL. Just after top of climb they found out half the lavs were inop. They declared an emergency and went into LAX to get them fixed. The emergency declaration allowed them to land over weight.

[expat400]

Declare an emergency for lav inop? Extremely unprofessional.

[MarkerInbound]

No, declare an emergency because they were going to do an overweight landing.


Are you saying they should have kept going 5 more hours with the inop lavs? Or that they should have dumped fuel and then perhaps taken even more time refueling in LAX?


And before you get all out of kilter, here's what Boeing has to say -


AERO - Overweight Landing? Fuel Jettison? What To Consider

[expat400]

MAYDAY - The radiotelephone distress signal to indicate grave and/or imminent danger requiring immediate assistance

Do you suggest that an overweight landing is an emergency?

"Are you saying they should have kept going 5 more hours with the inop lavs?"

Of course not. Are you saying they can't do an unscheduled landing without declaring an emergency?

What Boeing has to say:

"Landing overweight and fuel jettisoning are both considered safe procedures"

Extremely unprofessional.

[zonoma]

If you haven't declared an emergency then Heathrow are, 99% of the time, going to refuse to accept the diversion request.

[susier]

UA914

Airlive.net reporting that the entertainment system in a particular seat overheated but no fire.


No idea if this is a legitimate report or what their source might be.