First Choice Emergency Landing

… also The Guardian, The Times, and The Daily Telegraph, etc. :diablo: :diablo: :diablo:

No, I disagree. The papers you refer to are not perfect but they are less inclined to sensationalise as the tabloids.

It’s interesting that many people on this thread are very keen to be accurate in how they view aviation but don’t seem to want to understand the difference between a genuine emergency and the need to resolve a situation before a problem occurs. To brand an arrival at anywhere other than destination as an emergency is just not reality.

Did the aircraft have fire engines round it?

Whilst there, I think it was probably around midday or a bit after, a First Choice 767 G-OOAN landed and was subsequently followed by a group of fire engines. It wasn’t on the arrivals board, and I watched it fly from West to East on downwind for RWY24, so I can only assume it was an Atlantic crossing going into somehwere like MAN or LGW.

So in other words, yes there were fire engines around it.

Did the aircraft have fire engines round it?

James

… also The Guardian, The Times, and The Daily Telegraph, etc. :diablo: :diablo: :diablo:

Let’s look at this from a professional standpoint…
An emergency landing IS a completely different thing from a precautionary landing. Using the the former to describe the latter is done on a regular basis…by the Sun, the Mirror and the Sport, etc.

Calm down, chaps. Keep your tempers and your dignity intact.

I’ll be keeping an eye open for any further unpleasantness. 🙂

And, for what it’s worth, I see nothing wrong with the term “emergency landing”.

GA

To be honest, Dan should know a little better.

Since when? I struggle to see exactly what I have done wrong….and even then I’m confused as to why I should supposedly have ‘known better’ when I used a common phrase (’emergency landing’).

I’ve always called it that, since my Dad worked at STN and phoned me up every time there was an ’emergency landing’ and he’d tell me all he knew about it, so that I could listen in on my radio.

Who do you think you are? :rolleyes:

Flex 35

Why are you bringing it up again? This will turn into a slanging contest.

To be honest, Dan should know a little better.

Who do you think you are? :rolleyes:

Flex 35

This is the second time in two weeks a FCA B767 has stopped in Shannon. Last week G-OOBM stopped for a short while on its way back from Sanford to Manchester, and now the Cozumel flight, although the first was a medical emergency.

I consider that you were insulting people and showing them disrespect. That’s why I deleted the postings.

If you don’t want your postings deleting then don’t use them to insult people or to show them disrespect. Simple.

Anyway, the subject is not up for discussion or debate. Just be more careful how you address people in the future, that’s all I ask.

Apologies for disrupting your thread, Dan.

GA

No one is insulting anyone (and the moderator took my deleted comments completely out of context but thats by the by).

All that has happened is that we have discussed the use of the term “Emergency landing”. As the fire service quickly went back to the station, it shows there was no real emergency. Hence this was more of a precautionary landing. This is a forum after all and we are within our rights to discuss this.

The term `Emergency landing` is what you will find in the media every single time a plane lands somewhere it isn’t scheduled to. Regardless of what actually happened, be it a landing due to a lost bag or a slightly vibrating engine. Emergency sounds “cooler” than “precautionary” and turns more heads.

To be honest, Dan should know a little better. But, none of us has actually “slated” him for using the term. We have just questioned if its appropriate.

And BTW Dan, a friend on board the plane tells me it was an overheating coupled with vibration from one of the engines. A precautionary landing was carried out, as per the Pilots announcement. I cannot gaurantee the veracity of this, my friend has a tendancy to over inflate things.

hold back the insults

Guys, why insult the poster of this thread, he is an aviation enthusiast like all of us here. I am sure, when you are spotting at the airport and you see a number of fire engines going down the runway or taxiway, the thought of emergency landing comes into your mind. The poor chap simply asked a genuine question and got slated for it. Lighten up chaps.

I will have a good laugh, if somewhere on a news channel we hear an FCA 767 did actually make an emergency landing…..shame on you !

having only joined the forum last week i am amazed at how unkind other members on here are i was insulted in a thread i started last week and people are doing it again on this thread all wannabe pilot asked was a simple thing if members dont have the answer then they should just say so not start picking at the thread also i would ask grey area to think about taking action against members who insult others as per forum rules i think its the only way it will get it stopped

Bmused55 and respect for other members? Nah the two don’t go together that well. 😉

Flex 35

Some people like to veer away from the subject as seen here. I would have used the term “Emergency Landing” too mate, as you say, that it the term widely used!

Regarding the problem, i wonder what it was. But i don’t think here you’ll find the answer :rolleyes:

Just because it is widely used, that does not make in the correct one.
With that logic, I should be calling all Airbus’ “Scarebus” as that “term” is widly used. Of course, its incorrect, so I don’t use it.

Of course Dan will get his answer… he just need to wait until the person who has it read his first post. The correction of the term he used will have no impact on this.

Ok, so because I miss-worded the title (it should have read “Firct Choice plane in Precautionary Diversion”) I will never actually get a serious answer?

Stop being silly. No one has said anything like that.
Expecting a full answer at 1am is a bit over the top, don’t you think? How about excercising a little patience and waiting untill the forum is in full swing.

Moderator Comment

BMused55, please show more respect for your fellow-members.

Personal insults and derogatory comments will not be tolerated here indefinitely.

You have been warned.

Andrewm – if you have a complaint about a posting made by another member then make it by PM, either to the member concerned or to a Moderator. NOT in the open forum.

Please remember this in the future.

Thanks

GA

Ok, so because I miss-worded the title (it should have read “Firct Choice plane in Precautionary Diversion”) I will never actually get a serious answer?

Some people like to veer away from the subject as seen here. I would have used the term “Emergency Landing” too mate, as you say, that it the term widely used!

Regarding the problem, i wonder what it was. But i don’t think here you’ll find the answer :rolleyes:

Ok, so because I miss-worded the title (it should have read “Firct Choice plane in Precautionary Diversion”) I will never actually get a serious answer?