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from today's pm online Herald Sun
Qantas 737-400 from Melbourne makes one-engine landing at Canberra Airport
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/travel/n...-1225841020407 despite the hype, at what point 50% into the flight in this instance does the OIC, say lets go for it? I mean in relation to more emergency services being available IF needed. (maybe where they came from?) They were not needed in a negative way thankfully. I am not knocking his/her call. Just interested. Kind regards, Geoff Last edited by Geoff W; 15th March 2010 at 04:12 PM. Reason: More info. |
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Hi there
What is worst that can happen if they continue to Canberra, the other engine dies?, that would probably happen on the return to MEL anyway. even though the terrain on the MEL approach is better, they still wouldn't have made it. Weather, was CBR better than MEL? ATC, lower workload the CBR terminal area compared to MEL? I don't know why they continued, although it definatley wasn't for the nightlife in Canberra on a sunday evening. Anthony T |
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30 min into flight (rather than from gate) would have been well over the half way point to Canberra.
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Atleast It is better than the Canberra Times article of 'Ailing jet forced to land in Canberra'. Yes, gravity did force it down but nobody else did seeing it was coming here in the first place! Aircraft was VH-TJO, it could be seen being towed yesterday to perform run up tests at the runway 17 end.
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To put this into context I flew CBR-MEL yesterday and we had a 45 min flight time.
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