FlyBe undercart collapse on landing
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If. It's an important word that makes it completely irrelevant. Why not mention the Icelandair, Ryanair or Thomson aircraft that declared fuel pans/maydays because they might have been newsworthy "if" something had actually happened. Nothing did happen, it's not that uncommon an occurrence and it's not normally reported. I don't see why they'd write a muddled article flicking between an incident that could have been quite nasty and another that was a complete non event. I also doubt they had 10 crew members on board as stated by the DM, Dash 8's have two pilots and two cabin crew. Like I said abysmal sensationalist nonsense written by someone with no idea.Glad no one was hurt at Amsterdam.
djc206 said:
If. It's an important word that makes it completely irrelevant. Why not mention the Icelandair, Ryanair or Thomson aircraft that declared fuel pans/maydays because they might have been newsworthy "if" something had actually happened. Nothing did happen, it's not that uncommon an occurrence and it's not normally reported. I don't see why they'd write a muddled article flicking between an incident that could have been quite nasty and another that was a complete non event. I also doubt they had 10 crew members on board as stated by the DM, Dash 8's have two pilots and two cabin crew. Like I said abysmal sensationalist nonsense written by someone with no idea.
Glad no one was hurt at Amsterdam.
What do you mean "if"?Glad no one was hurt at Amsterdam.
The whole point of this thread is that something else did happen - the undercarriage collapsing on a different FlyBe plane.
tontoro said:
What do you mean "if"?
The whole point of this thread is that something else did happen - the undercarriage collapsing on a different FlyBe plane.
You've misread what I've written. The DM wrote an article about the undercarriage collapse as posted in the OP and littered it with snippets about a plane that diverted back to Glasgow which is irrelevant, they were not the same plane, they did not suffer with similar issues. Why they mentioned it is beyond me since it would normally go unreported. It's irrelevant.The whole point of this thread is that something else did happen - the undercarriage collapsing on a different FlyBe plane.
djc206 said:
You've misread what I've written. The DM wrote an article about the undercarriage collapse as posted in the OP and littered it with snippets about a plane that diverted back to Glasgow which is irrelevant, they were not the same plane, they did not suffer with similar issues. Why they mentioned it is beyond me since it would normally go unreported. It's irrelevant.
Relevant in the fact that it's the same airline. Newsworthy in that sense5150 said:
Relevant in the fact that it's the same airline. Newsworthy in that sense
I don't consider it relevant given that it was a minor technical fault I consider it coincidence and therefore irrelevant. I happen to know at least one other airline diverted an aircraft that day for technical reasons. djc206 said:
5150 said:
Relevant in the fact that it's the same airline. Newsworthy in that sense
I don't consider it relevant given that it was a minor technical fault I consider it coincidence and therefore irrelevant. I happen to know at least one other airline diverted an aircraft that day for technical reasons. 
t stir.....Grant76 said:
djc206 said:
I don't consider it relevant given that it was a minor technical fault I consider it coincidence and therefore irrelevant. I happen to know at least one other airline diverted an aircraft that day for technical reasons.
Would you find it relevant if you were onboard?A technical fault/divert on aircraft A has no relevance to aircraft B breaking an undercarriage leg no matter which aircraft you happen to be on.
Steve
I was on one of these FlyBe planes a couple of years ago, flying out of Schiphol funnily enough.
Landing gear wouldn't retract so they had to turn back - then it wouldn't lock into place!
They eventually figured that it had locked in place but it was an extremely gentle (but fortunately uneventful) landing. So they do seem to have history with landing gear.
Oh yeah, then we got abandoned by FlyBe when all the reps went home and left us there.
Eventually got back to a completely different airport at 2am (I'd have rather stayed overnight but with no staff it was impossible to know whether I'd have got on a flight the next day to the correct airport).
I do my level best to avoid FlyMayBe these days - even driving to an airport much further away to fly with a proper airline.
Landing gear wouldn't retract so they had to turn back - then it wouldn't lock into place!
They eventually figured that it had locked in place but it was an extremely gentle (but fortunately uneventful) landing. So they do seem to have history with landing gear.
Oh yeah, then we got abandoned by FlyBe when all the reps went home and left us there.
Eventually got back to a completely different airport at 2am (I'd have rather stayed overnight but with no staff it was impossible to know whether I'd have got on a flight the next day to the correct airport).
I do my level best to avoid FlyMayBe these days - even driving to an airport much further away to fly with a proper airline.
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