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BRITISH Airways Flight from London to New York grounded after engineers download the wrong map
A BRITISH Airways business class plane was left stranded in Ireland after engineers downloaded the wrong map. Bungling British Airways engineers assumed the New York-bound BA1 flight was headed for Europe as it was a small A318 Airbus... (www.aviationfigures.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Is that a "snark", it's certainly beyond an FA sarc.
Only somewhat. Two aircraft that only go from Point A-C then back C-B-A on a daily basis. Avionics appear to be A32x. Do they load the data in abnito every flight? And who are these 'engineers'?
I think the "maps" they were talkin about were the FMS database updates that the avioniucs techs upload as the old ones expire. Used to be a 56 day cycle with a mid period update. The pilots only load the current flight plan. I suspect the techs uploaded the wrong geo base data so the crew didn't have the correct data for their intended area of ops.
That makes sense, but given that BA only have two A318s and they only fly LCY-SNN-JFK-LCY that's a pretty shameful error whoever made it.
Thanks. That makes a lot of sense.
BA must have a limited number of A318 with ETOPS and it seems strange that the required charts for the transatlantic flight would not have been loaded and checked by the flight crew prior to departing to SNN. Interesting to look at the photo and see the registration is G-EUUS.
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/BAW1/history/20170210/1215Z/EGLC/EINN
I don't think they refrained from loading the electronic maps to save weight. Maybe there is a storage limitation? Does BA have a policy limiting maps so that a pilot doesn't inadvertently fly to the wrong continent? So many questions.