BA 350/EK 777 Collide
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Originally Posted by A320LGW
(Post 10749474)
Any idea of date and circumstances?
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BA and Virgin still flying away!
How come BA are still flying to all these places especially USA? Flight to Lima launched off this morning? Are they just flying freight or are they still rescuing "expats" or confused travelers that are just realizing the magnitude of this virus?
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Originally Posted by giggitygiggity
(Post 10749534)
Tug's connected so looks like a pushback incident. Looks like the A380 is parked behind its line so assume the A350 was pushed back incorrectly/too far.
BA is an A350 EK is a 777.... |
Originally Posted by launchpat
(Post 10749546)
How come BA are still flying to all these places especially USA? Flight to Lima launched off this morning? Are they just flying freight or are they still rescuing "expats" or confused travelers that are just realizing the magnitude of this virus?
There is still some very minimal pax activity but almost nil. As for the incident reported here where did it happen?! |
With all those EK aircraft lined up it looks like Dubai.
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Pushback crew strike again. Poor lookout on their part.
Ttfn |
Originally Posted by atakacs
(Post 10749577)
Yes mostly rapatriation and freight.
There is still some very minimal pax activity but almost nil. As for the incident reported here where did it happen?! It was freight only! Dubai Airport Last night |
Originally Posted by launchpat
(Post 10749581)
So what is going on here? BA295 has just launched off over our houses, a BA 777 going to Chicago O Hare but is shown on BA website as cax or non existent????
champ |
So, in the composite vs aluminium debate do we declare that a tie? Or do we need to see which flies first?
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Originally Posted by krismiler
(Post 10749578)
With all those EK aircraft lined up it looks like Dubai.
https://simpleflying.com/british-air...350-collision/ |
No great problem for EK - they have plenty of other 777's sitting around doing nowt..:(
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A touch ironic. With over 80% of the worlds fleet grounded. Two that aren’t manage an unauthorised coming together.
David |
Friend hoping to be repatriated from Lima tomorrow
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Originally Posted by champair79
(Post 10749605)
it’s a freight-only flight. Most of them are flying with passenger flight numbers rather than adding the customary ‘F’ suffix to the callsign. However in the systems, it’ll be listed as BA295F in your example.
champ |
Originally Posted by DaveReidUK
(Post 10749873)
A number of BA's remaining flights are indeed operating with an F suffix (BA027F, BA099F, etc). So far, the BA295 and the corresponding return flight BA294 are operating without that suffix.
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In BA at least, the following apply.
C - Charter E - Engineering F - Freighter P - Positioning (ferry flight) T - Training There might be a few I’ve missed out but that covers most of it. Often you won’t see these suffixes in the flight’s callsign though, just in the backend systems. champ |
Originally Posted by DaveReidUK
(Post 10749873)
ASo far, the BA295 and the corresponding return flight BA294 are operating without that suffix.
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A common convention with international carriers is that 9000-series flight numbers often mean no pax, i.e. a ferry or cargo flight.
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Feel for the skipper involved, an absolute top top bloke. Not that it was in any way his fault.
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