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BA Boeing 787 returns to LHR four hours into flight to India
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/BAW277/history/20160612/1420Z/EGLL/VOHS Defective weather computer. (www.standard.co.uk) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Probably because they were going to be flying in night time conditions into unknown weather conditions and the most prudent thing was to return for a new radar or aircraft back through areas and a capable ATC that could steer them around weather if they had too. In airline flying, the Minimum Equipment List(MEL) which guides whether an aircraft can be dispatched with inop equipment lists the Radar as must be working unless,,,you can maintain visual separation from clouds, and it is a daytime flight only. Most pilots use it in flight for guidance sometimes in determining whether to continue on. Its not like a lot of spare parts are available en route so one could drop in. Plus it's the beginning of the rainy Monsoon season there aka thunderstorms.
Remind me to never fly on an airline where they can't keep tabs on the weather, don't know the difference between a thunder storm and a monsoon, and aren't sure if it's going to be dark outside or not. OH, and if they have a part that breaks before they are at the halfway point, if they DON'T turn around and go to home base and instead cross their fingers hoping to get to the destination safely, as it turns into night, and THEN wait for the part to catch up to them. Not interested either. I'm also pretty sure that ATC east of London can handle telling a pilot if there's bad weather ahead. MEL and all that.
Absolutely the only decision was indeed to turn back to LHR. In 1961, a Vickers Viscount 700 series(VH-TVC) disintegrated minutes after departing at night from Sydney SYD (Kingsford Smith) due to flying into a TS during climb for Canberra, just 128nm away to the southwest. The tailplane failed first. WX radar was made mandatory for all pressurised airline opertions in Australia very soon afterwards..
Sounds like a return to base for repairs was the fastest most ECONOMICAL way to keep the plane in the air. You really don't want to have repairs done in India. I've done it and the specialist showed up in short pants and sandals carrying a 13mm spanner and a slotted screwdriver with a chip on the tip.
Air India owns 27 Dreamliners. Im sure their engineers arent like the one you have described above.
Actually Air India is poor with maintence on there 787's. They have so many issues with them in the past they kept having to make emergency landings almost 4:1 of any other airlines including Norwegian airlines. Yes they have gotten way better but there maintence program stinks. It's like a 2 year old 777 they ground and stripped to keep other planes going. Why not just order the parts then strip a brand new aircraft.
I could barely assemble that puzzle (comment).
I THINK you are saying that Air India has emergency landings that are almost 4 times as frequent as the next airline. I'd love to see your stat sheet on that.
I THINK you are saying that Air India has emergency landings that are almost 4 times as frequent as the next airline. I'd love to see your stat sheet on that.