Emergency Landing Dublin Airport today?

kerry4sam

One lad I work with told me of his ordeal on his Ryanair flight lastnight. They were fortunate to only be diverted to Shannon and not over in England in the wee hours of the morning with his young family, as many others did. At one point he said he actually gave up! The pilot made an attempt to land but the plane, he said, was shaking and rocking back n forth so much he though that was it! They wouldn't make it!

It must have been terrifying for people on all flights lastnight and I just hope that it won't deter people from flying again and from enjoying all this country has to offer when you do land safely.

So many people were grounded at destinations they didn't ask for, but was done so for safety reasons & I hope people will accept that in time. It may not have been ideal, but at least landings were done safely.

Honestly cannot praise all staff involved with Aviation enough for all they endure and not just last night. Well Done to all!

Rocky Bay

highlydebased wrote: »

Yup. There are only so many aircraft stands where they can deplane/board pax. There were 15 diversions into Shannon added onto the regular scheduled traffic (a couple of troop + cargo flights in the small hours) so it would fill up pretty quickly.

Once a plane is emptied can it not be moved somewhere else so that stand can be used by the next inbound plane and this procedure repeated over and over?

L1011

Rocky Bay wrote: »

Once a plane is emptied can it not be moved somewhere else so that stand can be used by the next inbound plane and this procedure repeated over and over?

Only so many remote stands in some cases, and staff, and places to dump pax inside the airport etc.

Followed this till about half 1 then collapsed asleep and had an insane amount of pages left to read when I woke up.

Pacing Mule

MYOB wrote: »

Only so many remote stands in some cases, and staff, and places to dump pax inside the airport etc.

Followed this till about half 1 then collapsed asleep and had an insane amount of pages left to read when I woke up.

I went asleep and woke up to feed a baby 2 hours later. When I saw 300+ new posts I was genuinely afraid one of the planes had crashed !

andy_g

so who wants an off topic thread?

JillyQ

Does anyone know what is happening in snn tonight? Have someone coming in from manchester tonight. Just saw there was a delay already from heathrow.

highlydebased

JillyQ wrote: »

Does anyone know what is happening in snn tonight? Have someone coming in from manchester tonight. Just saw there was a delay already from heathrow.

Manchester flight running normally. I think the Heathrow delay is owed to swapping over of aircraft at LHR when the aircraft they were swapping to was delayed itself

Peregrine

andy_g wrote: »

so who wants an off topic thread?

Make it the off topic thread that's been badly needed for years people can come here for flight radar and stuff rather than making a new thread for small questions

JillyQ

highlydebased wrote: »

Manchester flight running normally. I think the Heathrow delay is owed to swapping over of aircraft at LHR when the aircraft they were swapping to was delayed itself

Thank you for that highlydebased. Hopefully thats the case.

fussyonion

Friend of mine was on a flight from Alicante to Dublin last night. He said when they were in the air, the captain warned of high winds and said he would land the plane as best he could.

On the journey, the plane was wobbling and was flying on its' side at one point. He said everyone on the plane was screaming and crying and holding hands with each other.

Friend asked a steward why the plane was flying and surely they knew what the weather was like but the steward said they didn't.
Plane landed unannounced by the captain, in Liverpool and some passengers got off the plane and refused to get back on.

Eventually at 5am the plane took off again and landed in Dublin and there were fire trucks and ambulances waiting for the plane.

When the plane landed, the tail of it rose into the air and there was smoke coming from the wheels.

Thankfully everyone was OK but he said he was absolutely terrified.

kona

Rocky Bay wrote: »

Oddly enough I was watching EI104 and EI 132 on Flightradar last night on my new laptop that I received yesterday evening. EI 132 was DIRECTLY behind EI104, is that normal practice ? Not too far behind and off to the left was the UA flight to Shannon (or is it Dublin?). I actually thought at that time that EI104 was way out there after only leaving JFK about 2 hours before hand -and not realizing it had such a strong tailwind.

Yea there's usually about 30mins between the 104 and 132

A320

fussyonion wrote: »

Friend of mine was on a flight from Alicante to Dublin last night. He said when they were in the air, the captain warned of high winds and said he would land the plane as best he could.

On the journey, the plane was wobbling and was flying on its' side at one point. He said everyone on the plane was screaming and crying and holding hands with each other.

Friend asked a steward why the plane was flying and surely they knew what the weather was like but the steward said they didn't.
Plane landed unannounced by the captain, in Liverpool and some passengers got off the plane and refused to get back on.

Eventually at 5am the plane took off again and landed in Dublin and there were fire trucks and ambulances waiting for the plane.

When the plane landed, the tail of it rose into the air and there was smoke coming from the wheels.

Thankfully everyone was OK but he said he was absolutely terrified.

I didn't see this is in the Daily Mail

Vojera

tennis12 wrote: »

Really enjoyed following last night.
I have a question tho,
If a plane diverts like last night to Belfast and a passenger on board say from China, has a visa to visit Ireland are they allowed get the bus down to Dublin from Belfast? Would their visa cover Entry into the United Kingdom?

I'm open to correction, but I imagine so long as they don't leave the airport they technically aren't entering the UK. So I think they would have to fly Belfast to Dublin rather than getting the bus or train.

LeftBase

fussyonion wrote: »

Friend of mine was on a flight from Alicante to Dublin last night. He said when they were in the air, the captain warned of high winds and said he would land the plane as best he could.

On the journey, the plane was wobbling and was flying on its' side at one point. He said everyone on the plane was screaming and crying and holding hands with each other.

A 737 cannot roll 90 degrees. Turbulence happens in flight. Passengers get scared but if you are crew you are used to it and see it as a little run of the mill. Often what people view as "terrifying" is actually tame by some aviation stadards

Friend asked a steward why the plane was flying and surely they knew what the weather was like but the steward said they didn't.
Plane landed unannounced by the captain, in Liverpool and some passengers got off the plane and refused to get back on.

The cruise conditions lastnight were nothing too hairy bar the odd rough bit, however again my above statement re degrees of "chop" applies

Eventually at 5am the plane took off again and landed in Dublin and there were fire trucks and ambulances waiting for the plane.

When the plane landed, the tail of it rose into the air and there was smoke coming from the wheels.

Thankfully everyone was OK but he said he was absolutely terrified.

There are fire trucks on weather watch at the airport due to the high winds. There is always smoke from the wheels when you touch down due to the rubber contacting the runway surface and the "tail in the air" sensation is a sensory illusion caused by the quick deceleration of an aircraft. Similarly it can seem like the nose is lifting early on take off due to the acceleration.

Shamrock231

LeftBase wrote: »

There are fire trucks on weather watch at the airport due to the high winds.

I never heard of this before, care to explain what goes on here and the idea behind it for us on the ground?

Mech1

Hi all, just in. any action? any need for comms tonight?

highlydebased

fussyonion wrote: »

On the journey, the plane was wobbling and was flying on its' side at one point. He said everyone on the plane was screaming and crying and holding hands with each other.

That flight was holding before going for an approach, that's why people got that impression.

Mech1

Was great fun last night, 1st time I heard of plane spotting being a spectator sport.

fox_1973

Guy's, I followed this until 2 last night, I never even knew you could not only track the aircraft but cockpit view and audio aswell! I'm hooked :-) well done to all for posting the links

El Inho

Mech1 wrote: »

Was great fun last night, 1st time I heard of plane spotting being a spectator sport.

Was quality...people keeping score and everything haha.

Actually looking forward to getting up to the viewing spot meself for a while saturday night. have all the apps on the phone ready to rock!

phone will double as my own atc/radar/camera dealy

El Inho

fox_1973 wrote: »

Guy's, I followed this until 2 last night, I never even knew you could not only track the aircraft but cockpit view and audio aswell! I'm hooked :-) well done to all for posting the links

cock pit isnt perfect, would like to see an actual cockpit, or flight simulator plug in...surely wouldnt even be that hard...considering its just coods input into the program. but live weather effects and lighting would be awesome.

LeftBase

Shamrock231 wrote: »

I never heard of this before, care to explain what goes on here and the idea behind it for us on the ground?

To be honest I'm not 100% exactly what they look for, however my brother told me that a lot of the Rescue units were parked all over the airfield the last 2 days and afaik due to the extreme weather they keep an eye out for damage to items on the airfield such as items that come loose and blow around the place(on to runways and taxi ways) or possible damage to vital structures on the field etc. They can also be quickly used to give reports or conditions to airfield ops and ATC.

A Dub in Glasgo

fussyonion wrote: »

and there was smoke coming from the wheels.

Not windy during this landing

Mech1

El Spearo wrote: »

Was quality...people keeping score and everything haha.

Actually looking forward to getting up to the viewing spot meself for a while saturday night. have all the apps on the phone ready to rock!

phone will double as my own atc/radar/camera dealy

ipad is a great tool for doing all that, with the scanner on the car roof for comms.

El Inho

ah the galaxy s 2 is a big aul yolk too

keith16

Mech1 wrote: »

Was great fun last night, 1st time I heard of plane spotting being a spectator sport.

El Spearo wrote: »

Was quality...people keeping score and everything haha.

Actually looking forward to getting up to the viewing spot meself for a while saturday night. have all the apps on the phone ready to rock!

phone will double as my own atc/radar/camera dealy

Man, we should all go up on Saturday night, bag of cans, bit of a sing song.

And then as a plane is coming into land, make the "oooooooooooo........WHEY" noise as it lands like what some of them continental footy fans do when there is a corner or goal kick.

FWVT

This was the scene in T2 at 05:30 this morning. I queued for 2.5 hours to rebook but no joy, it was only a day-trip after all so no point.

El Inho

no no no no...the entire thing last night brought nothing but joy..no body suffered while we were all totally happy last night watching the planes...

I for one was indeed sitting at home going ooooooooooooo whey!

Peregrine

I reckon Cityjet could have sneaked in on the sidelines and scored one more for the EIs last night

keith16

Nimrod 7 wrote: »

I reckon Cityjet could have sneaked in on the sidelines and scored one more for the EIs last night

Replays are inconclusive.

Actually, did you know you can replay flightradar24 and speed it up?

Try it for last night and relive every glorious landing in HD. Live. Okey doke.