Breaking NEWS.
Jet2.com’s Boeing 757-200, G-LSAA operating a Charter flight LS2113, has been involved in emergancy landing in Athens enroute from Manchester to Taba-Egypt. 5 Passengers on the flight have been taken to Hospital. The Airline has now sent Boeing 757-200, G-LSAH from Manchester this afternoon as the LS31P to pick up the stranded passengers.
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2009/03/02/europe/EU-Greece-Emergency-landing.php
Plane makes emergency landing at Athens airport
ATHENS, Greece: A charter flight carrying 192 passengers from Manchester, England, to an unidentified destination in Egypt had to make an emergency landing at Athens International Airport on Monday due to a loss of cabin pressure, an airport spokesman said.
The Boeing 757, operated by low-cost airline Jet2.com, landed safely at 3:40 p.m. local (1340 GMT), spokesman Ioakeim Tsimbidis said.
Greek state TV reported that five passengers who complained of difficulties with their ears were taken to the hospital as a precaution. Tsimbidis could not confirm this.
Tsimbidis said the company was sending another plane to Athens and the passengers would resume their trip “sometime during the night.”
By: FlyMonarch - 5th March 2009 at 12:00
Here is the landing of the plane on rwy 21L of Athens. Despite that the captain declared an emergency in the beginning, later during final approach to 21L he said that it will be a normal landing.
The nature of what happened was the emergency, hence the mayday call, but the landing was as ‘normal’ as landings go, but was still an emergency landing! just no need to evacuate etc
By: MerNion - 5th March 2009 at 11:44
Here is the landing of the plane on rwy 21L of Athens. Despite that the captain declared an emergency in the beginning, later during final approach to 21L he said that it will be a normal landing.
By: Tonker - 4th March 2009 at 21:32
The main aim is to decend to the safe MSA, or FL100 whichever is higher. Not much point in getting everyone to start breathing normally again, on for them to see the slopes of Mont Blanc appear in their window!
By: Deano - 2nd March 2009 at 21:24
No it wouldn’t necessarily end up in a diversion. It all depends on what type of decompression it was. If it was rapid or explosive then yes maybe they would divert, the main aim is to descend to FL100 then make the decision. If you are close enough to your destination then it’s highly likely you’d continue, lot’s of factors come into it like maintainance bases etc.
However, if passengers/crew are injured then yes this is an immediate divert
By: maffie - 2nd March 2009 at 20:41
Hi,
I would presume cabin decompression during the cruise would call for an immediate decend and landing at an appropriate airport. A bit more than a diversion ( bad weather springs to mind )
Matt 🙂
By: tomfellows - 2nd March 2009 at 20:37
Sounds a bit of a minor event. If posted on PPRUNE no doubt quite a few of them will tear into these sort of news items as they always do with technical diversions! 🙂
By: OneLeft - 2nd March 2009 at 19:41
Surely that’s a diversion rather than an emergency landing.
1L.
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