Five EasyJets Squawking Emergency?
Five EZY's squawking 7700 right now with apparent diverts to STN.
Low fuel? Or a systemwide security concern? :confused: |
They have all landed now.
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Three of them were inbound to LGW, maybe something going on there ...
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Here's a tabloid media report of the incident:
The planes are now making the final approach to the busy UK airport after making the emergency calls within seconds of one another |
So, a non-story. Runway closed. Aircraft held until minimums, then declared Mayday for fuel and diverted. Nobody died. Nobody crashed. Nobody cares.
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Originally Posted by Flying Wild
(Post 10703992)
So, a non-story. Runway closed. Aircraft held until minimums, then declared Mayday for fuel and diverted. Nobody died. Nobody crashed. Nobody cares.
Is declaring a MAYDAY en masse part of the low cost carrier fuel policy in the UK perhaps? |
I don't think that outburst was necessary Flying Wild. It was just curiousity by the OP and nothing more. It's not often one sees three (it was only three from what I saw btw) aircraft squawking 7700 more-or-less simultaneously and all from the same carrier.
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seems twas a pot hole in the runway???
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I saw three EZY's divert to STN and two more continue to LGW after the emergency squawks.
Declaring an emergency for fuel is not common in my experience. I've never done it myself but then I've never been forced to fly around without fuel for holding and an alternate. And yes, I've flown into STN, LGW, LHR and a couple of other places over the years. |
:ok: Fair enough. Just that my source only indicated 2 approaches broken off at LGW with div to STN and a third which did get into LGW.
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Social media reports that there was a problem with BA2624 LGW-NCE and it needed to be towed off the runway. Did they think it fodded the engines with runway debris perhaps? Or maybe fodded the runway with engine debris?
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Originally Posted by BRUpax
(Post 10704011)
:ok: Fair enough. Just that my source only indicated 2 approaches broken off at LGW with div to STN and a third which did get into LGW.
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BA2624 (G-GATS) has landed at Nice in the last few minutes, having left Gatwick 4 minutes early. So I think that may be a duff rumour.
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Pot hole? Well that wouldn't surprise me. This is the county of Sussex, UK!
Try driving home from LGW.... I'd suggest a Land Rover with rather chunky tyres!!!!!!!! But I must say to anyone who operates, or is going to operate into LGW, its busy, but a great airport, with excellent ATC... I've flown globally for decades, and hold LGW ATC in the very highest regard, bar none. FK10 |
PS. The vast majority of go arounds I've witnessed, or performed myself at LGW have been due to aircraft not starting the take off promptly... as requested by TWR.
We have TCAS, and we have eyes, so if an aircraft is at 2.5 mile finals, so don't dilly dally please, just get your butt off the deck!!! |
Originally Posted by fokker1000
(Post 10704092)
PS. The vast majority of go arounds I've witnessed, or performed myself at LGW have been due to aircraft not starting the take off promptly... as requested by TWR.
We have TCAS, and we have eyes, so if an aircraft is at 2.5 mile finals, so don't dilly dally please, just get your butt off the deck!!! |
So You mean it is basically normal ops to divert in mayday fuel ?
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