tirsdag 4. september 2018

Denne minner meg om The Gimli Glider som for 35 år siden.....


......gled inn til nedlagte CFB Gimli nord av Winnipeg uten brennstoff. Det var en utrolig prestasjon, og siden det også var en B767 kom minnene på plass. (Red.)


Incident: American B763 near Moncton on Sep 2nd 2018, fuel quantity indication issue

An American Airlines Boeing 767-300, registration N343AN performing flight AA-734 from Philadelphia,PA (USA) to Manchester,EN (UK), was enroute at FL350 about 100nm northeast of Moncton,NB (Canada) when the crew requested to expeditiously return to Philadelphia advising they had a fuel quantity indication issue, no assistance was needed. The aircraft descended to FL320, then turned around and subsequently diverted to New York's JFK Airport for a safe landing about 2 hours after leaving FL350.

A passenger reported the captain announced there was a problem with the left hand engine and they didn't have enough fuel to get to Manchester. They diverted to JFK and waited for a replacement aircraft.

A replacement Boeing 767-300 registration N390AA departed JFK about 8 hours after N343AN had landed and reached Manchester with a delay of 11:45 hours.

The occurrence aircraft is still on the ground about 17 hours after landing.

https://flightaware.com/live/flight/AAL734/history/20180903/0120Z/KPHL/EGCC

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