Canadian PAX injured ?
Breaking news from CBC News:
_______________________________________________ Emergency crews are rushing to the Calgary airport in response to reports that an Air Canadaflight from Cranbook, B.C.,has landed with several seriously injured people on board. Anybody know anything about this? CBC don;t normally use exaggerated headlines. |
Emergency landing
Calgary Herald Published: Thursday, January 10, 2008 Emergency crews are on the scene at Calgary Airport after an Air Canada plane travelling from Victoria to Toronto was hit by turbulence and passengers were injured this morning. Nine ambulances are lined up on the departures level, ready to take patients to hospital. Duty inspector Richard Hinse said between six and eight people were seriously injured while other passengers sustained minor injuries. "It went up and then sideways," said one passenger, who said a friend of hers was hurt. "She flew up to the ceiling and right down." Traffic at the airport is being diverted. An Air Canada Airbus A319 headed from Victoria to Toronto made the unscheduled stop in Calgary at about 8:30 a.m. MT. More details to follow. |
According to recent CBC report the pax suffered injury whilst the aircraft encountered turbulence...
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Air Canada A319 hits turbulence
Air Canada confirms emergency landing at Calgary
Thu 10 Jan 2008, 16:30 GMT [-] Text [+] TORONTO (Reuters) - Air Canada confirmed on Thursday that flight AC190, travelling to Toronto from Victoria, British Columbia, made an emergency landing at the Calgary, Alberta, airport because of unspecified passenger injuries. The airline, owned by ACE Aviation Holdings Inc, said the Airbus A319 passenger list shows the plane was carrying 83 passengers and five crew members, but it said those numbers were based on the preliminary list and were subject to confirmation. It also said the exact number of passengers taken to hospital was not available. |
I'm hoping that the seatbelt signs were on when these people got injured. Nothing annoys me more than seeing folks walking around with the sign on. I'm convinced they think that pilots turn on the signs just because the chime sounds nice.
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C-GBHZ ACA190 Airbus A319-114
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Yup my thoughts exactly hope those seat belt signs were on.
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Airport News Conference
There was a press briefing at Calgary airport about an hour ago. Six people transported to hospital, at least one described as condition "yellow" meaning stable but potentially life threatening. No information given on the incident itself or how the injuries were caused.
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Seat belt signs??
Why all this talk of seat belt signs when no-one has posted the prevailing weather conditions yet? Could it not have been CAT? In which case, I feel sorry for the pax & crew wandering about at the time, pure bad luck & hope the injuries arent too severe...
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Mind your words
SLF here...
I am usually not posting on this threads for professionals, but frankly I do not deem this post appropriate, as well as at least another one that follows it. Yes we are SLF, but we are not idiots and I believe that you should give more respect to the passengers that are obeying to the sign belts when are on. May I remind you that without SLFs you will just one of the cargo pilots that are flying a number of cargo aircrafts around the world? Are you absolutely confident that anytime you switch on the seat belt sign there is danger? or even worse...how many times the you did not switch it on time? This thread should be addressing other issues than the SLF being fasten. Where was the cabin crew? Did they enforce the seat bealt sign? We can go on forever... Regards |
FYI
Part of Air Canada's onboard announcements include a reminder that seatbelts should be fastened at all times when the passenger is in their seat.
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Frequent SLF, I do take your point. And in my many years as cabin crew, I found that most passengers were conscientious and intelligent about fastening belts and staying seated when the signs came on. But there were also far too many who made a point of ignoring them. As crew, we came in for a lot of abuse if we tried to enforce the signs. The situation was possibly not helped by the hare-trigger reaction of some flight crews, to switch on the signs at the slightest hint of a bump. It's the old Cry Wolf phenomenon.. "But you're walking around!" was a common protest (Protest.. As if by asking them to strap in we were in some way trying to put one over on them..!) I somtimes had to bite my tongue not to snap back, "Ah yes, but we're insured!" It was especially galling with the citizens of a certain famously litigious country, whom we knew would be the first to rush bleating to a lawyer if they were injured; we sometimes wondered if that was the whole point.
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@Frequent SLF
Are you absolutely confident that anytime you switch on the seat belt sign there is danger |
Well, looking at that map it seems there was been mod to sev CAT forecast...even so, I don't really see the benefit of ridiculing those who have been injured until the whole story is known. Postulate on what caused this event by all means, but to make the implication this was entirely the fault of the injured pax is just plain stupid!
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@MLS
I do agree with your comments. False alarms are part of the "game". I do not agree on the comments that wants to put the blame on the SLF. IMHO it is outrageous a comment such as "I'm hoping that the seatbelt signs were on when these people got injured. Nothing annoys me more than seeing folks walking around with the sign on. I'm convinced they think that pilots turn on the signs just because the chime sounds nice." I do fully agree with the basic principle of the statement (i.e. seat bealts sign on...fasten the seat bealt and be quite on your seat). I do question the sarcasm (i.e. sounds of chime) and the use/abuse of the sign by some airlines. Really what I could not agree is the tone of the statement... Anyway, let me aks you a simple question...why the cabin crew most of the times is walking around when the seat belt sign is on? Would be simplier that all cabin crew sits down, this will not give excuses for the SLF to walk around too? Anyway my point is not to the need of respecting an instruction (fasten seat belt), I disagree on the way it was expressed. Regards |
Look at the chart - moderate to severe CAT is nowhere near Alberta!! (Assuming this is the correct sigwx chart)
And yes - too many do have a hair-trigger reaction to a few little bumps!!! And Innuendo - FYI, most airlines these days have the same announcement. Certainly mandatory for us here in the sandpit.. |
Well, looking at that map it seems there was been mod to sev CAT forecast...even so, I don't really see the benefit of ridiculing those who have been injured until the whole story is known. Postulate on what caused this event by all means, but to make the implication this was entirely the fault of the injured pax is just plain stupid! |
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