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777 lands on tiny Remote Pacific Island
"passengers were told before the flight began that there was an odor in the cockpit." "In fact, the flight takeoff was delayed in Honolulu for three hours, during which the plane sat on the tarmac, she said. “Then they let us go, and I thought it didn’t feel right, but hey,"" "lights kept going on and off randomly" “The pilots lost their radar, their map, and their radio and their electricity was going out but they didn’t tell us to keep us calm,” Shock Landing: Boeing 777 Forced to Retour to Remote Pacific Island http://www.nbcnews.com/business/travel/ … nd-n154191 ‘I’m about to die,’ passenger says of United flight over ocean, makes emergency landing http://fox6now.com/2014/07/12/im-about- … y-landing/ “The captain said there was smoke in the cockpit and the radar failed and other electronic systems were failing, so they had to land. I think they landed old-school. They did an amazing job to get there safely,” United Airlines flight diverted to remote Pacific island of Midway http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow … story.html Jul 13 14 04:09 am Link I never thought Midway was a Remote Island. It is the Northern Tier of the Hawaiian Islands. Jul 13 14 04:17 am Link - Midway Atoll - Midway (2.4 sq miles) to - Wake Island 1903 km 1182 miles to - Hawaii - Honolulu 2113 km 1313 miles http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/d … tml?n=1890 (comparable distances -- Chicago to Miami or (almost as far as) Chicago to Las Vegas or Los Angeles to Mexico City) Jul 13 14 04:32 am Link Interesting. The same Boeing 777 as used on the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH 370 and the same Boeing 777 used by Egyptair which suffered a cockpit fire at the Gate in 2011. http://avherald.com/h?article=44078aa7 Jul 13 14 04:55 am Link Fifty One Imaging wrote: The thick plottens!!! Jul 13 14 05:02 am Link udor wrote: It's a conspiracy! Boeing is in cahoots with GM to hide problems to avoid recalls! Either that, or aliens are somehow involved...... Jul 13 14 06:57 am Link Fifty One Imaging wrote: Probably wasn't the SAME plane Jul 13 14 10:32 am Link Any sighting yet of the Smoke Monster? Jul 13 14 02:39 pm Link Why would anyone want to leave HI? Jul 13 14 02:57 pm Link Fifty One Imaging wrote: udor wrote: Well the interesting plot is that one of the best theories is the MA flight was lost after an electrical fire suffocated the flight crew. It fits the profile of the accident and everything known about it. Jul 13 14 03:06 pm Link DOUGLASFOTOS wrote: Yeah, when I read the title, I imagined a beach landing somewhere, with helicopters, etc. needed to rescue everyone, not an island with an established runway that simply had another plane fly in to pick everyone up. Jul 13 14 03:10 pm Link ~8000 foot paved runway in good condition - - - Big yawn! Hell, they even opened up the gym for the pax to sit in and fed them. Probably with a/c - certainly more comfortable, I should think, than sitting and sweltering in the "hollow metal tube" on the parking apron. I think this incident should be filed under "shit happens". Studio36 Jul 13 14 03:18 pm Link Nobody died and the pilots are largely heroes? Oh... Jul 13 14 03:27 pm Link It is a maintain runway. It is large and even a Airbus A380 could land there. Midway has been there for many years. It is like a Aircraft Carrier!!! lol. It was used in 2011 Delta Flight 747. https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q … 5_lXdoztBA https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q … 0081,d.cGU Jul 13 14 03:31 pm Link Fifty One Imaging wrote: You forgot to mention, the shadowy figure at the grassy knoll. Jul 13 14 03:34 pm Link Where is, repeat, where is Task Force Thirty Four? The world wonders. Jul 13 14 04:34 pm Link on Midway? *yawn* Jul 13 14 04:37 pm Link I've done numerous flights to and from Guam...super happy that didn't happen to me. My flying phobia is bad enough. Jul 13 14 08:59 pm Link  . Jul 13 14 09:53 pm Link DougBPhoto wrote: Would explain everything. Jul 14 14 07:56 am Link It sounds to me like the pilot was experiencing electrical problems. He made the decision to land. Picked the best runway around and put it down safely. We make news of every slight mechanical problem in an airplane. In this case, the system and training worked exactly as it should have. Midway is a huge airport on a tiny island. It isn't a great place to be but a very safe place to land. Jul 14 14 08:27 am Link Slightly off topic but Midway has a great historical context. The time was June 1942. It was the site of a decisive battle in World War II that decimated the Japanese naval capacity. Some say this battle was the most important battle of the entire war. So many aircraft carriers, planes and skilled pilots were destroyed Japan could not keep up with the Americans. Crucial to the victory was the US breaking Japanese naval codes. The US knew an attack was imminent but did not know where because the Japanese used code names. AF in the case of Midway. So the intelligence service asked the radio operators at Midway to send an uncoded message saying that there was a problem with the fresh water supply on the island. Then they listened to enemy radio traffic and sure enough a routine message was sent to Japan mentioning the water problem at the code name AF. Thus the US was prepared for the attack. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Midway Jul 14 14 10:16 am Link Glad everyone is safe. Poor Boeing. It's planes keep on having problems. Jul 15 14 05:08 pm Link Robb Mann wrote: It is bad for me too because I am a stockholder. Jul 15 14 06:30 pm Link Why in hell did they send another plane just to bring them back to honolulu…and then turn them around a couple hours later to go to their destination? Why not just pick them up at midway and then keep going. Jul 15 14 07:09 pm Link probably some complicated regulation from the FAA. The feds can never control anything properly. Jul 15 14 07:27 pm Link Laura UnBound wrote: I have no idea, but I'm guessing that passenger convenience wasn't high on the list of priorities. Jul 15 14 07:28 pm Link Laura UnBound wrote: No way to get luggage off that plane. So...back to HNL and Wait. Jul 15 14 07:31 pm Link DOUGLASFOTOS wrote: How does taking them back to Honolulu solve their luggage problem? The luggage was still on a busted plane sitting in Midway, unless a plane who's innards were on fire causing an emergency landing was flown back to honolulu in just a few hours after its emergency landing so they could unload it. How did the previous planes that emergency landed there and had flights take the passengers from midway to wherever they were going get their bags? Jul 15 14 08:20 pm Link Laura UnBound wrote: Please ask Tree Top Airlines. They also got 500 dollar vouchers. Jul 15 14 08:30 pm Link Large passenger planes land on this tiny Pacific island dozens of times per day.  Jul 15 14 08:33 pm Link Laura UnBound wrote: It is complicated. Certain airplanes are certified to fly certain distances over water. Likewise, only certain commercial airliners have been cleared to fly into certain countries. My guess is that the plane they had available for the rescue was fine to fly to Midway from Hawaii but wouldn't pass muster to the final destination. Jul 15 14 08:39 pm Link Monad Studios wrote: Hey that is Kansai International Airport. Jul 15 14 08:39 pm Link DOUGLASFOTOS wrote: Have you been there? Jul 15 14 08:42 pm Link Laura UnBound wrote: I'm guessing, but the airline may not have wanted to take off with a fully loaded B777 from Midway. The runway is not short, but it may not have had enough of a safety margin. Few commercial pilots are used to taking off in a wide body commercial jet from Midway. They may even fly in two planes -- one for the passengers, and a second for their luggage and freight. Boeing may even send out a team to assist. Jul 16 14 03:15 am Link |
. There have been over 1200 777s made so far, so every now ant then one will have a problem. The vast majority of the time the result is what happened in this case, no harm to anyone other than the inconvenience of the travel delay.
