Hopefully they included the 6 we couldn’t find when we left Seville!

Originally posted by EGNM
Leeds has and still can handle a/c up to B747 size.

hmmmmn…well ok, if you consider reducing pax numbers massively and carrying limited fuel!

Some people here have hit the nail right on the head as far as I’m concerned.

Batbay – ‘Why fly through it?’ Exactly what I was thinking. It would seem to me that the flightcrew failed to use their weather radar properly to identify oncoming CB activity and were therefore masters of their own destiny.

Kev35 – ‘Interesting that there are no pictures of the damage said to have been inflicted in the fuselage and wings.’ The damage to the radome and the crack in the windscreen appear to me to be largely cosmetic. What would bother me more is whether the leading edges of the wings containing the high lift devices (eg slats) would deploy for landing coupled with loss of lift due to dent induced misshapen leading edges. I can’t imagine the engine fan blades were too happy with their lot either!

EGNM – ‘Stricken Holiday jet limps back into Manchester’, ‘Plummiting thousends of feet’ and ‘Thrown uncontrollably through the skies’. I’m with you on this about media reporting. I bet you that aircraft was never ‘uncontrollable’, never ‘plummiting’ (sic) and I’ve never seen an Airbus with a ‘limp’. Pathetic glitzing up for reader appeal yet completely missing the material that mattered. More useful as tommorrows chip wrapper than todays news journal!

regards
wys

An inside source tells me to expect a big Qatar order/announcement in the next few weeks.

A perfect example (in miniature form) of what Boeing should have made the NG 737 into.

He would be cruising at between his normal operating mach number and MMo but he would have been travelling the bulk of the way down a huge jetstream to set these kinds of speeds.