Delta DL 29
 

On flight radar. Delta dl29 squawking 7700 looks like heading heathrow ?

Landed Heathrow - got the stacks quite full so 29 had priority. The landing stream just getting back underway now.

He got almost half way across the pond apparently before turning back.

The track I saw looked like the aircraft turned back at around 49N009W. Obviously got a lot of priority with traffic being backed up into the stacks.

:zzz::zzz::zzz: This is for the Spotters Forum!

And that's being charitable. :O

9 west.....is hardly "halfway across the pond" .....To Spectators Balcony with this .

IanW Any priority traffic is threaded under the holding areas and fitted in with the normal sequence, perhaps with a little more room ahead of an behind, depending on what the problem is. The holding stacks don't simply pile up and wait - normality continues until the priority aircraft is closer in.

Forum Police
 

To those members of the Forum Police,

Was this item not news?

This is the Rumours and News forum!

So where is the information on why the aircraft turned back?

FERetd
 

Clearly it was a slow day on 121.5 so the guard police sent a a contingent here to augment their skill set.

It's no more news than the many other daily instances of aircraft diversions.

I suspect that even the denizens of the Spotters Forum would get rapidly fed up if every one of those was similarly reported.

You have many daily Maydays over there, so you?

Considering the extreme reluctance of pilots of scheduled carriers to declare emergencies, squawking 7700 and diverting to Heathrow is more than a weather/fuel diversion and indicates a level of concern that is far from normal. A valid thing to put into this section of the forum.

Nice to see the professionals are right on it

Ian W Having read your profile I cannot believe that you could write such things.

HH is right. Squawking 7700, akin to declaring a Mayday, is the best way to get priority and not be messed around when you want to return for whatever reason. :cool:

I don't recall constraining my comment to "over there" (wherever that is). If every 7700 squawk worldwide produced a post on PPRuNe's R&N, they would outnumber all the other threads put together. I'm sure that's not what you would want.

Looks like the mods share my view that stuff like this didn't belong there (R&N).

Moderators?
 

You call them moderators (good to keep on the right side, I suppose). I'd call them censors. What you see, is what they want you to see!

The item was no more or less newsworthy than half the posts on Rumours and News.

Perhaps we need an "Approved by DavidReidUK" endorsement.

By all means feel free to disagree with my views and opinions, but let's leave the ad hominem stuff out, shall we?