@AirlineFlyer (who is always on top of this stuff and extremely knowledgable) shares on Twitter the incident that's currently unfolding with an Air Astana Embraer 190. Let's start with the good news -- the plane landed safely. Earlier today a five year old Air Astana Embraer 190 was departing Portugal when the pilots squawked 7700,…
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Lucky, It was supposed to be a test flight. They landed safely at Beja on the third Go-Around. Only 6 people on Board. No regular Flight. They even had a moment thinking of a ditching in the Tagus River. Ditching in the Sea is a free entry to your grave. We have extremely bad weather over here nowadays, wind and rain. And the hole continents beaches has waves not below 5m. And those are the small ones.
I'm sure I wasn't the only one who followed this whole situation while it was still unfolding - the pilot declaring the flight is uncontrollable, with fighter jets accompanying the plane, then announcing the plane is under control and they have clear visuals... I was literally praying for this plane to land safely... So uber happy & well done once again to, obviously, well trained pilots!
Are Embraer-190s having a lot of problems lately? Remember Aeromexico’s accident a couple months ago which the company blamed on the pilots not following procedures.
I listened to liveATC at Lisbon when this happened. They were talking about ditching for a few minutes, but they couldn't get the plane to fly where they wanted (as far as I could tell). Then the controller and the fighter that was deployed managed to convince them to divert. Also if you look on FR24 you'll see that from the point they took off until when they managed to get the plane under control it was a full hour of uncontrollable flight, so this crew truly pulled off something incredible. There's video of the landing too
@Nelson - What are you talking about??. Many jets have ditched in the water with people surviving. US A320 in the Hudson River NYC, Ethiopian 767 Indian Ocean. It's not ideal obviously.
Nelson was taking about landing in the sea with the conditions we're having in Portugal right now. It would be pretty much impossible to survive by landing the plane in that sea. The Ethiopian plane landed on very calm sea and still dozens of people died.
Gotta question the competence of Embraer maintenance if this is how they fix things.
C100/300 for me.