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|    Message 138 of 717    |
|    Ward Dossche to Roger Nelson    |
|    Re: Birdstrike at Barcelona Airport    |
|    11 Mar 19 09:20:07    |
      MSGID: 2:292/854 0b12291c       REPLY: 2:292/854 020d323a       RN> I wonder what damage the engines suffered?               The airplane was taken off-line but as Barcelona is a main base for Ryanair       they have a similar plane there standing-by in a rotation scheme, they have       that at 7 or 8 airports, so when a plane goes off-line for whatever reason       they have a backup ready, fueled and with crew ready to ferry the plane to       wherever. Due to the selection of those bases a back-up plane can be flown-in       within 90 minutes at the most except for certain exotic destinations       (Fuertaventura, Gran Canaria, Tenerife...)               The plane reached its parking spot under its own power and departing       passengers were taken to the back-up plane, they didn't even know.               Ryanair gets lots of flak in Europe but they're well organized, I flew them       dozens of time and never a problem. Once the plane had a birdstrike and we       were barely delayed.               RN> Also, the one right after that with the Air Canada flight 85 running out       RN> of fuel at 41,000 feet was most interesting.               AC85 is Tel Aviv to Toronto.               Make that AC143 and we're alright.               But they still had land to put their wheels down on.               More critical is a similar situation with air Transat 236 from Toronto to       Lisbon in 2001 which ran out of fuel over the Atlantic due to a leak. It       wasn't really made into a book nor in a movie, not spectacular enough but way       more critical as it occured over water.               Here's the pretty accurate reference:               https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Transat_Flight_236               The difference, probably, with the 2 recent 737 MAX crashes is that both crews       on those Canadian planes followed the golden rule "fly the plane" and not       start tinkering with computers in case of a problem.                \%/@rd               --- D'Bridge 3.99 SR41        * Origin: AVIATION ECHO HQ (2:292/854)       SEEN-BY: 15/2 123/1970 153/757 221/1 226/17 229/107 426 728 1014 240/5832       SEEN-BY: 249/317 400 261/38 280/464 292/854 8125 317/3 322/757 335/364       SEEN-BY: 342/200 393/68 396/45 633/280 801/188 3828/7       PATH: 292/854 229/426           |
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