BOX 412 \ 3s412 has turned back (Sat 19th July)
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BOX 412 \ 3s412 has turned back (Sat 19th July)
A local site is Tweeting that flight 3S412 FRA to ORD has recently declared an emergency and turned back.
https://twitter.com/EssexWeather/sta...16231557627905
https://twitter.com/EssexWeather/sta...16231557627905
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Watching flight BOX412 on Flight radar
Sorry for my lameness in asking this, my flight radar app on my iPad popped up with a squawk. So I opened the app up to see, it was just off the coast of Scotland and performed a uturn. Was at FL320, it's currently at FL210 by Darlington. I was wondering why if it has done a u turn and has problems, why has it not gone to the nearest airport? If there is a problem, which is severe enough to turn round then why not land at the nearest airport?
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Been watching him for the last hour, stayed at FL210 for a good hour only just gone to fl190. Stayed on squawk 7700 aswell, I can only presume he is going back to FRA?
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And slow. Maybe on one engine?
Loss of pressurization perhaps with fuel burn back to EDDF enough to get down to landing weight? Still, would you press on all the way back to FRA at FL 190 wearing masks?
Or, loss of altimetry redundancy and inability to do RVSM? Would you squawk 7700?
Nav failures and unable MNPS?
The plane is now headed east, suddenly not going on a course back to Frankfurt.
Last edited by Airbubba; 19th Jul 2014 at 23:50.
So now where is he going? Leipzig?
Does Frankfurt have a curfew.
Ya! Fliegen est Verbotten at night!
Does Frankfurt have a curfew.
Ya! Fliegen est Verbotten at night!
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It does, but for a plane on 7700? Looks like he only diverted from his flight path near Duisburg and now passed Warburg VOR.
Flying low, slow but not landing immediately, cracked windshield?
Flying low, slow but not landing immediately, cracked windshield?
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Wire_Mark:
1) For your information an aircraft turning back does not mean that the problem is serious enough to divert to the nearest airport. I was on a KLM flight which developed a problem 2.5 hrs into my flight to YVR. We went all the way back to AMS.
2) If it was an engine issue, it may well have been shut down as a precaution and not actually "failed". The a/c is perfectly capable of flying on one dong and it makes economic and logistical sense to return to the company's maintenance base if all else looks good.
1) For your information an aircraft turning back does not mean that the problem is serious enough to divert to the nearest airport. I was on a KLM flight which developed a problem 2.5 hrs into my flight to YVR. We went all the way back to AMS.
2) If it was an engine issue, it may well have been shut down as a precaution and not actually "failed". The a/c is perfectly capable of flying on one dong and it makes economic and logistical sense to return to the company's maintenance base if all else looks good.
