|
|
|
#1
16th January 2010, 02:55 PM
|
|||
|
|||
United Airlines lands in BNE due to low fuel
http://www.news.com.au/travel/news/u...-1225820344788
Looks like todays UA flight from LAX diverted to BNE due to low fuel. I love the picture in story in the link above... they must have had a lead block in the fuel tanks to cause the plane to do that! 
|
|
#2
16th January 2010, 03:51 PM
|
|||
|
|||
|
That picture is very misleading. Unless you read the full bi-line of the story on the front page, you would thing that is the aircraft in question.
I know news.com.au make mistakes like this regularly (not just aviation stories) but they seem to have a standard "tail" image for most of the local airlines in thier library. Surely they could have one for one of the worlds biggest carriers as well? 
__________________
Eagerly counting down to the next YSSY Spotters Weekend
|
|
#3
16th January 2010, 03:54 PM
|
|||
|
|||
|
Quote:
__________________
"When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your head turned skywards; for there you have been and there you long to return"
|
|
#4
16th January 2010, 06:01 PM
|
|||
|
|||
|
The Age has this headline....
http://www.theage.com.au/travel/trav...0116-md3h.html Forced down. hello! Kind regards, Geoff
|
|
#5
16th January 2010, 07:21 PM
|
|||
|
|||
|
Send it into Media Watch - they love stuff like that.
Seems strange for a fuel diversion that they ferried a second B744 into BNE to take the pax down to SYD - anyone know the story there? Did the diverted aircraft land with a non-MEL item or something?
|
|
#6
16th January 2010, 07:23 PM
|
|||
|
|||
|
This made me laugh as much as on Channel 10 the other night they were doing a story on the melbourne trains buckling in the heat and how many stuff ups the rail service had and when they went to the story thy couldnt get audio.... and they went back to Mel Waldon who said "they were having some technical difficulties" WAS SO FUNNY!
|
|
#7
16th January 2010, 07:43 PM
|
|||
|
|||
|
Well the aircraft in question was N127UA which also diverted into BNE mid week as well.It was operating UA 839 today .United sent up N107UA to pick up the pax and take them back to Sydney.N107UA operated UA 863 SFO-SYD then onto BNE.There was no SYD-MEL-SYD today as this aircraft operated SYD-BNE-SYD.
I am not sure if N127UA has departed BNE as yet ??
|
|
#8
16th January 2010, 08:44 PM
|
|||
|
|||
|
Adam,
I am unsure if your comment was meant to my post or earlier ones. In my case, I would'nt give media watch such easy fun. I like our interests more than media, I just put up here, what I think is crazy. Lloyd, My observations from earlier in the day indicated with the SYD-BNE-SYD shuttle? As you mentioned there was no SYD-MEL-SYD today. UA have recovered the day OK. The eastbound LAX flight has left a couple of hours late. Not to bad. I am ASSUMING, there wasnt a spare UA aircraft hanging around in SYD. Very happy to be corrected. Kind regards, Geoff Last edited by Geoff W; 16th January 2010 at 08:46 PM. Reason: lost direction, whoops.....
|
|
#9
16th January 2010, 10:13 PM
|
|||
|
|||
|
Quote:
I think this aircrafts diversion earlier in the week was a SFO/SYD flight.
|
 |
|
|
Linear Mode
