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Old 9th October 2018, 02:00 AM
Mick F Mick F is offline
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Originally Posted by Rowan McKeever View Post
To explain further my earlier post, I am suggesting the UA crew went straight to mayday to make ATC aware that, with a SIGMET in play at YMML, their only options (from their failed flightplan) were YSSY or a diversion.
A sigmet doesn’t necessarily mean that an aerodrome becomes unavailable as an alternate. Also, I highly doubt that United only have one option for an alternate on the east coast of Australia. There are ‘preferred alternates’, which would include company handling etc., but I imagine they also have suitable alternates which can be nominated for a legal perspective only.

Secondly, even if it did, then they then have the fuel no longer required for that alternate to use for the approach and landing in Sydney.

What was Sydney weather like at the time?
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