Flightradar24 Thread Part III

washman3

Wonder it the BA A380 off the west coast will do likewise.??

Cloudio9

BZ wrote: »

Apparently due to winds in LHR at the moment.

Really ? there's no holding at heathrow at the moment. (one loop doesn't count)

Captain_Crash

Cloudio9 wrote: »

Really ? there's no holding at heathrow at the moment. (one loop doesn't count)

LHR operates at 100% capacity and when inclement weather hits they reduce arrival capacity (from one arrival per 40 seconds to one per 60 seconds per se). So instead of having a bunch of aircraft holding they "select" a number of lucky flights in advance and amend their slot.

BZ

News reporting the BA 747 had a slight technical issue with the rudder which reduced there capability of a crosswind landing in LHR.

Padraig Mor

What would happen to the passengers in this case? Did BA fly in another plane, or try to sort the technical hitch?

Cloudio9

Captain_Crash wrote: »

LHR operates at 100% capacity and when inclement weather hits they reduce arrival capacity (from one arrival per 40 seconds to one per 60 seconds per se). So instead of having a bunch of aircraft holding they "select" a number of lucky flights in advance and amend their slot.

Yes by doing things like stopping aircraft taking off from Dublin or Paris, not by diverting an in-air 747 from Las Vegas.

marno21

Padraig Mor wrote: »

What would happen to the passengers in this case? Did BA fly in another plane, or try to sort the technical hitch?

BA flew in an A321 from LHR with engineers on board and the passengers continued to LHR on the A321

Edit: 747 now on its way to LHR as BAW274F

Mech1

BA2777 south coast of England having problems landing Squawk 7700

Pinch Flat

Looks like he's lining up to land in Birmingham. Wonder what the problem was?

lolie

Pinch Flat wrote: »

Looks like he's lining up to land in Birmingham. Wonder what the problem was?

Wind maybe, looks fairly gusty in Southeast England now.
Looks like theres been a few go arounds also at Gatwick.
http://www.meteociel.fr/temps-reel/obs_villes.php?code2=3776

Pinch Flat

Unmistakeable sound of the Piaggio P-180 Avanti just passed over. me in central Dublin Hadn't heard that in a while....

Tabnabs

Jet2 flight from Manchester has turned back, over the midlands.
https://www.flightradar24.com/EXS059B/238d915f

PinOnTheRight

Tabnabs wrote: »

Jet2 flight from Manchester has turned back, over the midlands.
https://www.flightradar24.com/EXS059B/238d915f

It's likely a test flight

Noxegon

Apropos of nothing and in a completely useless stat, I've been building up a flight history for myself using sites like The Lingus Source and Casper Flights, and it would appear that I've been a passenger on all current Aer Lingus A320s except the two ex-Aeroflot frames added to the fleet in 2017 (EI-GAM and EI-GAL). I should find something better to do with my life...

PukkaStukka

BA4473 Dublin - London city airport is squawking the 7's and appears to be diverting, possibly to Manchester

VW 1

There was a large amount of fire brigades on the runway and ambulances also on on both ends of the runway with a Thompson plane somewhere around 7.20, anyone know what was wrong?

What Username Guidelines

VW 1 wrote: »

There was a large amount of fire brigades on the runway and ambulances also on on both ends of the runway with a Thompson plane somewhere around 7.20, anyone know what was wrong?

Landed with a deflated tyre.

https://twitter.com/storanphoto/status/1218250280518803457?s=21

Chris_5339762

Manchester to Tenerife is currently doing laps off Balbriggan.

https://www.flightradar24.com/EXS57JW/2390e7c6

goingnowhere

At FL320 is a bit strange

Heading back to Manchester soon

Inquitus

goingnowhere wrote: »

At FL320 is a bit strange

Heading back to Manchester soon

Aye just stopped circling and looks like its begun to head back to Manchester.

GM228

EI-DAI appears to have just done a go around, any ideas why?

(TC-JHZ may have had something to do with it?)

marcos_94

Live feed of the Boeing 777-9 test flight for those interested:
http://www.boeing.com/commercial/777x/first-flight?sf228205858=1

Mech1

marcos_94 wrote: »

Live feed of the Boeing 777-9 test flight for those interested:
http://www.boeing.com/commercial/777x/first-flight?sf228205858=1

im watching, but,,,,,,,

geminiman63

Maybe they should do an inclement weather take off test flight now, I'm quite sure it will occur once the plane is in service :pac:

JCX BXC

EI911 LGW-NOC holding at 18,000ft near Knock due to snow in Knock.

JCX BXC

JCX BXC wrote: »

EI911 LGW-NOC holding at 18,000ft near Knock due to snow in Knock.

Diverting to Dublin now.

Was in the hold for 48 minutes.

road_high

Where were the Knock flights all diverted to? I see that one Dublin but surely the rest would go to SNN?

Nijmegen

BA have suspended all flights to and from China. Just watching BA27 coming in to HKG but nothing else inbound to China. Wonder will they continue HKG, given it’s not mainland.

Few flights inbound to the UK - Shanghai and Beijing just crossed into Russia north of Mongolia. Wonder will there be a rush of expats who decided to wait and see now deciding if the options are closing to try get a seat with other airlines, can’t see BA being the final word on this.

Tabnabs

British guy interviewed on BBC radio this morning three hours away from Wuhan said all the roads were sealed and he had little chance of getting out anyway. Then a Professor who specialises in viruses said that it was a huge mistake to airlift "foreigners" out of China and only Australia had the right idea of quarantining them all on an island until they are cleared to return home.

Talk of BA not resuming flights to China until March.

Nijmegen

Tabnabs wrote: »

British guy interviewed on BBC radio this morning three hours away from Wuhan said all the roads were sealed and he had little chance of getting out anyway. Then a Professor who specialises in viruses said that it was a huge mistake to airlift "foreigners" out of China and only Australia had the right idea of quarantining them all on an island until they are cleared to return home.

Talk of BA not resuming flights to China until March.

I believe the Americans are gonna hold everyone at an Air Force base in California for the incubation period. I’d be surprised if other countries don’t follow that and the Australian model.

BA did the ban on back of foreign office advice. US state department has already advised no travel, wonder when US carriers will pull the plug.