comairguycvg From United States of America, joined Jan 2006, 304 posts, RR: 1 Posted (4 months 2 weeks 13 hours ago) and read 1345 times:
DL201 JNB-ATL 9JAN13 had an oil pressure issue and shut down the associated engine thus diverting to RAF Ascension Island/Wideawake Airbase/Georgetown, Saint Helena (ASI/FHAW). They landed around 8:25pm Eastern time, (1:25am local), even though, at this writing, FlightAware is still showing DL201 in the air about 5 hours from ATL due to the tracking being in estimated mode. This is a quick shot of ship 7103 to be the rescue aircraft as DL9978 is being prepared for the journey. They were scheduled to depart ATL at 11pm local but now shows a 1:30am estimated departure. Would be interesting to see two DL tripple 7's at that location.
comairguycvg From United States of America, joined Jan 2006, 304 posts, RR: 1 Reply 4, posted (4 months 1 week 6 days 11 hours ago) and read 895 times:
Heard from a guy at work last night that after DL201 diverted to ASI, there was another plane that was landing and clipped 201's wing. Not sure how bad the damage is. Also found this link: http://www.avherald.com/h?article=45bee9df&opt=0
airportugal310 From United States of America, joined Apr 2004, 3070 posts, RR: 2 Reply 7, posted (4 months 1 week 3 days 20 hours ago) and read 701 times: