Singapore Airlines diverts due bomb scare
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To tie up one or two unanswered queries, The fire dept asked the Captain, after taxiing off the runway, what his intentions were, either chutes or steps on, 121.6, the reply was from the Captain was that he was going to use steps.
To question the airports emergency procedure with regarding one set of steps may be a little premature , as I saw two sets of steps taken there even though only one was used. Whoever decided not to use the other set I do not know.
The only other thing that occured was the tug going up in a puff of smoke whilst towing it to stand 80 , and having to get another one to complete the journey.
To question the airports emergency procedure with regarding one set of steps may be a little premature , as I saw two sets of steps taken there even though only one was used. Whoever decided not to use the other set I do not know.
The only other thing that occured was the tug going up in a puff of smoke whilst towing it to stand 80 , and having to get another one to complete the journey.
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54North13West is quite a northerly track and the a/c possibly overflew Mancester outbound as it came from Frankfurt originally so a quick 180 and back to a place you know is a possible scenario, that and as pointed out by MAN777, the fact that SIA have staff at Manchester. Anybody got the track mile difference between EINN and EGCC from 54North?
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I'm not sure about SIA's evac procedures, but the airline that I work for has a "precautionary disembarkation" procedure which is a sort of a bastardised full evac, normally used after a high speed RTO or other situation requiring rapid egress of pax and crew, but not as rapid as the full blown evacuation. In this case, the fire bottles are not pulled, and stairs or slides may be used.
As I say, I don't know whether SIA have such a procedure
I think it would therefore be in the scope of the Captains responsibility that he would choose not to fire the bottles..it would cause a MAJOR delay if he did so.
I'm not sure about SIA's evac procedures, but the airline that I work for has a "precautionary disembarkation" procedure which is a sort of a bastardised full evac, normally used after a high speed RTO or other situation requiring rapid egress of pax and crew, but not as rapid as the full blown evacuation. In this case, the fire bottles are not pulled, and stairs or slides may be used.
As I say, I don't know whether SIA have such a procedure
I think it would therefore be in the scope of the Captains responsibility that he would choose not to fire the bottles..it would cause a MAJOR delay if he did so.
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I think everyone is missing something here, if this was a full scale bomb warning then to the best of my knowlage there is no way on earth they could have disembarked all the pax, checked them, all the luggage, cargo and had the aircraft back in the air in 2hrs 36 minutes, not even mentioning that after 1 hr of the deck the towed it to gate and let a fully fuelled Dragonair 747 taxi within 100 yards of a aircraft with a suspected bomb on ??.
Also if it were a full scale bomb warning, then why did they bring it into Manchester overflying heavily populated areas, the procedure is to take it into STN where it can be brought in over maily countryside.
Also the fact that with previous diverts (Olympic in STN) the news crews were all over the story.
Something amiss here, but despite my attempts to find out what I have managed to turn up nowt!!
Anyone got one of those light shedding machines handy ???
Also if it were a full scale bomb warning, then why did they bring it into Manchester overflying heavily populated areas, the procedure is to take it into STN where it can be brought in over maily countryside.
Also the fact that with previous diverts (Olympic in STN) the news crews were all over the story.
Something amiss here, but despite my attempts to find out what I have managed to turn up nowt!!
Anyone got one of those light shedding machines handy ???
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54North13West is quite a northerly track and the a/c possibly overflew Mancester outbound as it came from Frankfurt originally so a quick 180 and back to a place you know is a possible scenario, that and as pointed out by MAN777, the fact that SIA have staff at Manchester. Anybody got the track mile difference between EINN and EGCC from 54North?
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Looks to me it's about twice the distance. From a point 54N13W to EINN is about 163 nm and to EGCC is about 358 nm.
54North13West is quite a northerly track and the a/c possibly overflew Mancester outbound as it came from Frankfurt originally so a quick 180 and back to a place you know is a possible scenario, that and as pointed out by MAN777, the fact that SIA have staff at Manchester. Anybody got the track mile difference between EINN and EGCC from 54North?
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Looks to me it's about twice the distance. From a point 54N13W to EINN is about 163 nm and to EGCC is about 358 nm.
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The impact on airport operations would probably have been minimised given EINN's lower traffic, far less urbanised approach and long expertise in handling diversions. Instead MAN was made single runway... for some tech difficulties sure head for the company but for a bomb which might have been set to explode in the approach?
