Air Canada Boeing 767 returning to Madrid after landing gear fell off & entered engines.

[MrSki]

Hope it can make a safe emergency landing!

 

[Santino]

Interesting use of the word 'entered'.

 

[Pickman's model]

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[MrSki]

 

[editor]

Must be really shit for the passengers

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[MrSki]

Must be really shit for the passengers

Yeah imagine circling for three hours (so far!) burning fuel. I would be shitting it. I expect there must be a good few hours more fuel to burn off. Only positive is they can at least be as prepared as possible on the ground.

 

[cupid_stunt]

Yeah imagine circling for three hours (so far!) burning fuel. I would be shitting it. I expect there must be a good few hours more fuel to burn off. Only positive is they can at least be as prepared as possible on the ground.

They can dump fuel.

 

[MrSki]

They can dump fuel.

How long does that take? Been at it for 3 hours or is that for preparations on the ground?

130 on board.

 

[MrSki]

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

They can dump fuel.

Not all 767s have the necessary equipment. It's a customer option.

 

[keybored]

According to this passenger it was a tyre. Fingers crossed.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

Would they put foam out on the runway in a case like this?

 

[cupid_stunt]

Not all 767s have the necessary equipment. It's a customer option.

Blimey, I didn't know that, how bonkers.

 

[MrSki]

Blimey, I didn't know that, how bonkers.

Yeah just read there is no fuel dump facility. Scheduled emergency landing at 18.20 gmt

 

[SpookyFrank]

Not all 767s have the necessary equipment. It's a customer option.

I'm starting to think I might not want to buy anything at all from Boeing.

 

[planetgeli]

Crew are “fully trained for such an eventuality”. Apparently.

Good luck to them all.

 

[Baronage-Phase]

Hope they land safely.
Must be very frightening for the passengers and crew

 

[mauvais]

Blimey, I didn't know that, how bonkers.

Dumping fuel is for relieving the weight difference between max takeoff weight and max landing weight, not - as many people think - to get rid of an explosion or fire risk.

If it were a full emergency and immediate landing was required, they would just land overweight. It might damage the aircraft but is unlikely to result in catastrophic failure.

 

[T & P]

You have to be at a certain minimum altitude to be allowed to dump fuel anyway, and as the flight only has one working engine it might be safer to circle around to burn it off than to have to climb to the required altitude.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Would they put foam out on the runway in a case like this?

They didn't when a Virgin plane did similar at Gatwick a few years ago.

Good luck to all on board and on the ground.

 

[T & P]

Landing now!

 

[keybored]

Looks like a pretty decent landing. Excellent news.

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

Looks like the landing went smoothly. Live feed:

 

[MrSki]

 

[weltweit]

Scary, hope they make the landing ok.

Canadian passengers don't need yet more drama.

 

[T & P]

Looks like the landing went smoothly. Live feed:

Yes. I was watching the live feed and apart from (perhaps) some sparkles from friction- though it could have been lights- it seemed an uneventul landing.

 

[keybored]

Blatantly ignoring the "Flight mode" instructions.

 

[MrSki]

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Thanks be to any passing deity.

And top work by the flight crew

 

[cupid_stunt]

Dumping fuel is for relieving the weight difference between max takeoff weight and max landing weight, not - as many people think - to get rid of an explosion or fire risk.

If it were a full emergency and immediate landing was required, they would just land overweight. It might damage the aircraft but is unlikely to result in catastrophic failure.

Not always, there was a case in the news a couple of weeks ago.

However, if an airplane encounters a technical problem or passenger medical issue and needs to make an emergency landing early in a flight, they won't have had a chance to burn enough fuel to reduce the weight below the maximum. This means the flight crew has to quickly get rid of excess weight and the easiest way to do that is by dumping fuel.

That was the course of action chosen by the pilots of Delta Flight 89 on Tuesday after engine problems forced them to make an emergency landing back at Los Angeles International Airport moments after the wide-body Boeing 777 took off for Shanghai loaded with fuel for the long-haul journey.

Ask the Captain: Why do planes have to dump fuel before making emergency landings?

Captain John Cox explains what happens when it becomes necessary for pilots to dump fuel before an emergency landing like the one at LAX last week.

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