Seeing that we have had some bad weather , lots of rain and snow,I got thinking about passed div days at Manchester.
and reading my old logs I was remind me of a day a long time ago at Manchester ,when the pier’s were open and I was taking pic’s of 3 British Caladonian DC10’S and a Gauda 747 not sure if it was the same day ,all I remmeber was the DC10’s has diverted from Gatwick and was there a few days ,and that was in about -11 frezzing fog and snow.
Pity pic’s have long since been lost and mores the pity my log book to 🙁
We dont seen to get div day’s like we used to have 🙁
Paul
By: Grey Area - 17th March 2006 at 21:27
Lost your logs? You haven’t logged up that far yet, more like! :diablo:
By: pauldyson1uk - 17th March 2006 at 21:00
If I had known you I would of done,can you tell me what day it was dived in ,I have lost my logs for that period.If I remmeber rightly it was in for a few day cos it blew an engine.
By: David Kerr - 17th March 2006 at 19:28
Why didn’t you come over and say “hello!” to me on that day with the Garuda – it was parked on stand 26 I believe.
Most frequent “exotic” diversion was ET-AIZ, seen 3 times in Ethiopian colours and once whilst leased to Air Tanzania.
Best for me was 8/2/92 with 20 747s on the ground at once (19 being diverted), with a total of 30 widebodies (8 operating normal services) noted in the space of 90 minutes.
AS for the lack of decent div days, improved weather forecasting is leading to more planes having excess fuel so that they can handle anything up to 60 minutes in the hold, plus an increased number of aircraft and crew being certified to land in foggy conditions. The only hope for decent days diversions nowadays is to pray for about 18 inches of snow to fall and for it to partially melt and then a sudden drop in temperatures occurs to freeze everything!
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March 17, 2006 at 4:51 pm