Emb-195 incident - Southampton Wed evening

[Corsairoz]

Almost certainly not as big a deal as the local 'paper' spoke of. The reporter failed to work the word terror into the report, but managed a 'desperately' crew reference.

Eve Muirhead caught up in drama on board Flybe flight to Southampton Airport (From Daily Echo)

If you read every word it seems the flaps possibly refused to extend correctly.

Is a flapless landing such a huge deal in an EMB-195 assuming the runway is long enough?

C

[itsresidualmate]

Liked the comment from one of the passengers onboard....!;

"The most scary part of the flight was the price of the beer. Flybe wanted £3.90 for a 330ml (coke can) sized lager!"

[Tamer]

Awww you beat me to it ! But you forgot to say it was only Coke can sized

[Tamer]

Oh yes you did.

[WFLineage1000]

Well, Embraer should really do something about flaps thing. Quite common occurrence with E190 ...

[itsresidualmate]

I wasn't going to mention it...!

[itsresidualmate]

Had an E190 with a slat skew fault just a couple of days ago. Might be the skew/assymetry sensors being too sensitive. Cleared the fault memory and the thing was fine. However I've been working on them constantly for a year and a half now and that's the first one I've seen with a flap fault.

[MATELO]

"The most scary part of the flight was the price of the beer. Flybe wanted £3.90 for a 330ml (coke can) sized lager!"

Does this go into the box marked "quote of the year nominations"

[BEagle]

FRIGHTENED passengers watched on as crew members tried to find a fault in their plane just minutes before it was due to land at Southampton.

Police shut the M27 as the stricken Flybe aircraft circled above the city, while the runway at Southampton Airport was lined with emergency services.

For a simple flapless landing? Why on earth should Plod have needed to shut the M27?

[forget]

Why on earth should Plod have needed to shut the M27?

Didn't a Citation 'slide' onto the M27 a while back. Maybe they closed it only for the approach. (Doubtful )

[wiggy]

Why on earth should Plod have needed to shut the M27?

Dunno, Beags, I suppose they might have been worried about an overrun if they were landing to the southwest, OTOH if in doubt there's always the simple "'Elf and Safety" excuse to fall back on....

[Corsairoz]

Maybe some of them are old enough to remember this ending up on the M27 in 1993:


http://www.skybrary.aero/bookshelf/books/1303.pdf



C

[jackieofalltrades]

If they were so worried about a potential runway overrun that the M27 was closed, why wasn't it requested they divert to Bournemouth with it's much longer runway?

[5milesbaby]

Or Exeter where they could get maintenance too??????

[gcal]

@Corsairoz
I was driving by at the time! It almost took out our brand new car, and us of course!