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Hailstorm Seriously Damages AirEuropa Plane Traveling From Madrid to Buenos Aires
... On September 9th, an AirEuropa Airbus A330 flying into Argentina’s Ezeiza Airport encountered a serious hailstorm in the last 20 minutes of a 12-hour flight, theblaze.com reports. (www.wunderground.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Many years ago a DC-9 ran into large hail over Georgia and lost both engines. The plane was at an altitude that would have allowed it to make Dobbins AFB without power but it unexplainedly executed a 360 degree turn which used up so much altitude it had to put down on a highway in a small town resulting in multiple fatalities.
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Hailstorm Seriously Damages AirEuropa Plane
Passengers aboard a harrowing transatlantic flight from Madrid to Buenos Aires might be kissing the ground this week. On September 9th, an AirEuropa Airbus A330 flying into Argentina’s Ezeiza Airport encountered a serious hailstorm in the last 20 minutes of a 12-hour flight, theblaze.com reports.
http://www.weather.com/travel/hail-damages-aireuropa-plane-buenos-aires-20140912?cm_ven=FB_TRAVEL_JB_91615_20
Hailstorm Seriously Damages AirEuropa Plane
Passengers aboard a harrowing transatlantic flight from Madrid to Buenos Aires might be kissing the ground this week. On September 9th, an AirEuropa Airbus A330 flying into Argentina’s Ezeiza Airport encountered a serious hailstorm in the last 20 minutes of a 12-hour flight, theblaze.com reports.
http://www.weather.com/travel/hail-damages-aireuropa-plane-buenos-aires-20140912?cm_ven=FB_TRAVEL_JB_91615_20
Weren´t the pilots briefed before departing or say two hours before landing about this ominous weather so they could consider landing at an alternate airport to wait it out. Beviating right or left for 30-50 miles or whatever and then resume is not an option in this particular route because the 330s land at Buenos Aires with just the bare legal mínimum fuel in normal conditions.
Well, the story did say something about no way to deviate.
no alternate?
Hard to believe that they could not deviate along a 6,600 miles route
I agree although somewhere in the story or one of the comments here somewhere I was reading that those Madrid flights came in sucking on fumes. That said, I don't know if ICAO has the FAA ETOPS standards in place or not, but it doesn't sound like it.
Standards are being followed in fact there have been a number of cases where 330s bound for Buenos Aires from European cities have landed at Rio or other cities due to higher than expected fuel burn. This is no different from west-bound UAL, DL and American 757s landing at Goose Bay and other airports in Newfoundland all the time after crossing the Atlantic when strong headwinds call for caution.
Well, I wasn't there, but I would hope that 20 minutes out I could do something to let that thing kinda pass. That will spoil your day in a hurry. LOL