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Jet Lands with Cracked Windshield After Hailstorm
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A US Airways jetliner flew through a hailstorm on its descent into Philadelphia on Thursday and landed with a cracked windshield, the airline said. Only one layer of the multilayered windshield was cracked and Flight 768 en route from Orlando, Florida, landed safely, airline officials said. No one was injured. The flight landed as hail — some reportedly the size of tennis balls — was falling across parts of eastern Pennsylvania, cracking car windshields, breaking windows and… (bigstory.ap.org) और अधिक...
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That's the $3,000,000 question...
Here's the $3M answer......Because NY center rerouted all traffic on the Bunts1 arrival, Direct RAV, Direct Bunts and when traffic advised ATC that they needed to deviate around the weather, they responded "negiate, due to military airspace." They boxed in airplanes.....PERIOD!!
The WX grew at an astronomical rate and gaps between storms closed extremely quickly. We barely got thru and advised Philly that the route will most likely not be viable for much longer.
The WX grew at an astronomical rate and gaps between storms closed extremely quickly. We barely got thru and advised Philly that the route will most likely not be viable for much longer.
There is no reason to penetrate weather that may be hazardous to the aircraft. I've been there with the northeast controllers. Several years ago it was down to one safe corridor to fly with no room to turn around. The controller demanded we turn into the weather. I said we will maintain our current course or declare an emergency and maintain the course anyway. His choice. He said continue. Listening to traffic, he didn't give any other aircraft vectors because of us. Turned out he was separating us from airspace instead of other traffic. In todays's world of XmWx and ADS-B we never would have been there because we would have bypassed the whole mess.
Exactly, I did the same thing in a "little" Learjet with Washington center somewhere by the Delmarva peninsula. Every airplane, airliner and GA were giving in to the controller. I refused, he got pissed off and his exact comments were "you don't want to get wet." But he let me fly the course I wanted...
Tks Joe; glad ya'll made it down.
15 years ago next Sunday, June 1, wx boxed in AA1420 at LIT. You just can't tell how fast it will close and it is a crapshoot at that point. You win some, you lose some.
WOW.. Some controller going to have some splain'n to do...
Probably stocking up on the KY coupons...
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