I wish it will not happend tome on next month….
from yyznews.com:
..last Thursday (Oct 17th) Air Canada quickly chartered a Boeing 737 to Air
France to “rescue” stranded passengers in Churchill Manitoba. The Air France
Boeing 777 was traveling from Paris to Los Angeles and while over Hudson’s Bay
at 35,000′ observed smoke in the cockpit. The pilot elected to land at the
nearest available airport and put the large 777 down at YYQ. Once on the
ground, with an uneventful landing, they couldn’t get the passengers off the
airplane because they didn’t have an air stairs large enough to reach the
doorsill of the 777. Passengers exited through emergency chutes.
The available hotel rooms in Churchill were already fully booked because this
is the peak season for tourists watching the annual migration of Polar Bears
wandering through the streets of Churchill. So the AC Boeing 737 ferried up
from Winnipeg to Churchill and took a load back, then returned to pick up a
second load of passengers and bring them down to Winnipeg.
By: EGNM - 24th October 2002 at 20:46
RE: Emergency landing
One of the Air Atlanta a/c in S outh America with Southern winds had one blow on t/o – they only found it when a cargolux 744F landed on it – it think they come as a pack which is replaced from boeing!
By: T5 - 23rd October 2002 at 20:17
RE: Emergency landing
[updated:LAST EDITED ON 23-10-02 AT 08:19 PM (GMT)]A bizarre tale – I can see where andrewm is coming from in all fairness. It must have been an interesting experience and Boeing have a good reputation for manufacturing fine aircraft. Once on the ground and safe and then realising they couldn’t get off of the aircraft as planned… it must have been incredibly funny!
Just one question:
When they use these slides, how do they go about replacing them? Or, do they actually replace them? Can the slide just be deflated and stuck back inside the aircraft? If not, are they expensive? Sorry for the sudden Question Time act here!
By the way, that’s a great pic A330.
By: A330Crazy - 23rd October 2002 at 19:28
RE: Emergency landing
[updated:LAST EDITED ON 23-10-02 AT 07:48 PM (GMT)]A shock to Churchill this was, a 777 coming in. Churchill never recives anything bigger than a 737, but even thats unusuall.
No steps were big enough to reach the door of the aircraft, so the emergency shoot was inflated. Must have been a shock to the passengers.
As you can see, the man who took the picture below managed to capture the aircraft at Churchill with the shoot inflated.
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By: KabirT - 21st October 2002 at 15:35
RE: Emergency landing
best of luck Hand. 🙂
By: kev35 - 21st October 2002 at 15:26
RE: Emergency landing
[updated:LAST EDITED ON 21-10-02 AT 03:35 PM (GMT)]Andrew,
“LOL if I was there I would love that. You pay for 1 flight and get 5 flights instead! Yeah there is a risk if the airplane cockpit gets full of smoke but I wouldnt mind. I know Boeing are safe!!”
I don’t mean this in a nasty way but you are one very strange person. I don’t understand how you can express delight at a potentially deadly situation. I assume you are the type of personality who would go to watch a car race in the hope there were lots of crashes.
As for Boeing being safe that is of course a relative term. Boeing do, and have lost aircraft and, unfortunately will probably lose them in the future. Many people have felt themselves to be safe on Boeing, Airbus or aircraft built by almost any other manufacturer and many have found themselves in an early grave. Flying is an inherently risky business. To derive pleasure from someone else’s potential misfortune seems absurd.
BTW Bhoy is right, you only get two extra flights. From Churchill to Winnipeg and Winnipeg to Los Angeles.
Also, your marquee tag. Everyone else’s seems related to aviation but yours is just a pointless example of egocentricity, is it really necessary?
Regards,
kev35
By: Bhoy - 21st October 2002 at 12:35
RE: Emergency landing
no, you get two…
By: andrewm - 21st October 2002 at 11:48
RE: Emergency landing
LOL if I was there I would love that. You pay for 1 flight and get 5 flights instead! Yeah there is a risk if the airplane cockpit gets full of smoke but I wouldnt mind. I know Boeing are safe!!
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