Article : "Delta flight raced Hurricane Irma from San Juan Puerto Rico, and won"
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Article : "Delta flight raced Hurricane Irma from San Juan Puerto Rico, and won"
https://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/trave...o-rico-and-won
Non pilot so no idea if this is newsworthy, but what a cool graphic!
Non pilot so no idea if this is newsworthy, but what a cool graphic!
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Thanks for sharing this, a hoary aviation aphorism is that it's better to be lucky than to be good. 
Like many of us here, I've operated JFK-SJU a time or two in less challenging conditions.
Like many of us here, I've operated JFK-SJU a time or two in less challenging conditions.
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The interesting part of the article was not the escape, but venturing into SJU in the first place. Getting in is one thing, but not knowing if you could get out is another, IMHO. They succeeded, but the risk must have been significant. It could have been one of those days where,"it is better to be on the ground wishing you were in the air rather than in the air wishing you were on the ground." and that piece of ground might not have been SJU.
But hey, all's well that ends well; isn't it????
But hey, all's well that ends well; isn't it????
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Yes, me too I was thinking getting out in time as being the real challenge.
A last minute grounding snag for example would kind of ruin your day and your aircraft...
A last minute grounding snag for example would kind of ruin your day and your aircraft...
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The story here isn't really about the plane getting in and out of an airport right on the edge of the storm, where winds were still within limits, but what the decision process was in dispatching the flight there in the first place!
As others have said, if there was a technical glitch, or for example another plane having a landing mishap and blocking the runway, Delta would have had a multi-million dollar asset stuck in a place about to get hammered by a 180mph hurricane and most likely destroyed.
It doesn't seem to make much sense to me?
As others have said, if there was a technical glitch, or for example another plane having a landing mishap and blocking the runway, Delta would have had a multi-million dollar asset stuck in a place about to get hammered by a 180mph hurricane and most likely destroyed.
It doesn't seem to make much sense to me?
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The story here isn't really about the plane getting in and out of an airport right on the edge of the storm, where winds were still within limits, but what the decision process was in dispatching the flight there in the first place!
As others have said, if there was a technical glitch, or for example another plane having a landing mishap and blocking the runway, Delta would have had a multi-million dollar asset stuck in a place about to get hammered by a 180mph hurricane and most likely destroyed.
It doesn't seem to make much sense to me?
As others have said, if there was a technical glitch, or for example another plane having a landing mishap and blocking the runway, Delta would have had a multi-million dollar asset stuck in a place about to get hammered by a 180mph hurricane and most likely destroyed.
It doesn't seem to make much sense to me?
