Now I am amused.....
 

If the crew had told ATC twice that it was commercial reasons, I cant understand why he should have expected the crew to elaborate any further.

However I also agree that the crew should not have done anything without clearance. Perhaps the language barrier was playing its part.

That is why the original story doesnt quite add up to me. I certainly cant think of any reason to divert to ALC for technical reasons at that point. I would suggest the crew gave that answer to try and expedite reclearance. :ugh:

I apologise if I offended any ATC friends with my 'nosey' comment. Surely as long as the reason isnt an emergency or technical, what difference does it make? Can you file a plan for an in flight diversion? :confused:

And there was me thinking I was going to bed…

Outofsynch what doesn’t quite add up to you in the original story?

If you kindly go back to the very first post and carefully read it you’ll see there is no maths involved.
Exactly what it says is what happened. No hidden agenda, just wondering if anybody else had heard it and knew more about it. That’s it.
Don’t worry, it’s not that important.
Hey, I’m off to PMI again tomorrow, but this time I’ll keep it to myself if I hear anything like it.
Good night.

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Come on mate, as a commercial B737 driver you should know the answer to that :E

Not so long ago (March/April) CSA did exactly the same at STN a BHX-PRG flight visited us on the ramp...I am led to belive they called a PAN as the AFS met them and followed them to the stand - a very bemused crew wondered why when they eventually made contact as they were diverted by ops to pick up a tech aircrafts pax!!

We used to file plans to enroute alternates a few years back.
GLA-LCA on a 737-400 was always a challenge...so PFO or RHO were often used....
Not anymore....fuel policy was changed and it hasn't happened since.
Not sure whether is a company thing or not...
It got us out of loads of scrapes !

The local rumor has it that in fact declaring very little at all made the police squads board the aricraft and I fully understand why if that was the case.

Sad thing is that they brought no extra pax back at all since the situation was solved otherwise by the time they had landed. The crews will never jump the ops bait so easily any time soon.

:hmm:

FlightDetent

Are you suggesting that perhaps the reason was to do with a security problem?

Can you please explain?

Thanks.

On the contrary, my friend. They only jumped OPS rushed request, only to find upon arrival they were not needed anymore. Sad for them, could have saved the efforts for next time.

Local rumor says the "commerical reasons" got garbled at some point on the way and thus the treatment. I only mean to say that emergency and security services cannot take any chances and this is understood. It was such non eventful that they became suspicious so to say. No one's fault.

I am a poor writer but try to read Cythereas and my previous posts in sequence and I am sure it'll add up for you.

Cheers,
FD.