I went to Madrid this weekend to a wedding and I flew on a Spanair Link B717. The plane was superb, clean, silent and nice. Both flights were really good, but on coming back to SCQ, we had a strange event on board. There was a VIP event, so many private planes were landing. We were going to land and in the middle of the descend in clouds we went up again and were going round for 60 minutes….I really thought we had a problem with the landing gear. But it seems that a Challenger had lost the communication and was flying without contact. All flights had to wait for a long while. Do you really believe this excuse?. What are the procedures for that things?
By: KabirT - 26th June 2002 at 04:35
RE: Plane uncontrolled
well when an aircraft looses contact with the ATC, it is supposed to land imigately at the nearest airport and the ATC is supposed to keep the skies clear for the distressed aircraft, although in this story, you have mentioned time for waiting as 60 minutes which is rather too much. I dont think the airline was trying to hide a fault in the a/c, that is actually an offence in the FAA book. B717 had some problems when the upgradtion form the MD 82 was offered to Boeing to make B717, but those problems were restricted to the rudder and the fuel lines. So i dont think anythin was wrong with your a/c….some miscomunication or really some major problem with the Challenger.
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June 25, 2002 at 7:33 pm