No injuries, except pride.
By: Arabella-Cox - 23rd September 2012 at 16:54
Doesn’t look like there was any damage.
By: Arabella-Cox - 22nd September 2012 at 08:31
Evidently, one of the passengers has commented to the BBC that the Air Austral B737-300 was the oldest aircraft he had ever flown on.
I’m not convinced that that notion is directly relevant to it skidding off the runway on this occasion but back in the days when I used to use chartered airlines, I looked at some of those sub-contracted aircraft (often without markings of any sort) and wondered exactly where they had come from and who was flying them. One was piloted by an old boy who had a large cigar hanging out of his mouth, and who applied full take-off power while the aircraft was still turning to line up with the centre line.
The B737 equivalent of a handbrake turn, I suspect.
By: Mr Creosote - 21st September 2012 at 22:11
Given all the other problems with this airline, I think Monarch will be ashamed of ever having used them. Passengers will remember that they booked and had a bad experience with Monarch and no one else.
By: Matt-100 - 21st September 2012 at 22:07
I don’t really see how this would damage Monarch’s pride? Runway over-runs are a relatively common occurrence and have happened to pretty much every airline at some point (and a lot of the time a lot more seriously than this incident, eg. the Qantas over-run in 1999, http://www.skybrary.aero/images/B744_Bangkok_230999.jpg Air France flight 358 in 2005 http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e0/Air_France_Flight_358_cropped.jpg and more recently Singapore Airlines at Munich http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=0rn-iI7wX-Y&NR=1 all spring to mind)
The aircraft wasn’t in Monarch livery, so again, I fail to see how this should damage the company’s pride? 🙂
Sign In
September 21, 2012 at 6:29 pm
