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Username: jdj
Posted 2012-12-28 11:42:41 and read 4810 times.
Allegiant has confirmed that there was a fire in the cargo hold of a flight headed from SBN to PGD. The flight made an emergency landing at FWA.
http://www.nbc-2.com/story/20441463/...unta-gorda-makes-emergency-landing
[Edited 2012-12-28 11:50:03]
Username: FWAERJ
Posted 2012-12-28 12:01:24 and read 4695 times.
Quoting jdj (Thread starter):
The flight made an emergency landing at FWA.
Makes sense, as FWA is also served by G4, and all the gates there are shared-use. Just a few mouse clicks and a gate can be activated or switched at FWA.
Username: roswell41
Posted 2012-12-28 12:05:30 and read 4675 times.
In a situation like that (inflight fire), whether an airport is a company station is of little concern. FWA was probably the nearest suitable airport and just happens to be a G4 station. An inflight fire in the cabin or cargo hold is probably the emergency most pilots would least prefer.
Username: tjwgrr
Posted 2012-12-28 12:13:08 and read 4592 times.
Quoting roswell41 (Reply 2):
In a situation like that (inflight fire), whether an airport is a company station is of little concern. FWA was probably the nearest suitable airport and just happens to be a G4 station. An inflight fire in the cabin or cargo hold is probably the emergency most pilots would least prefer.
Agreed. Looks like the routing from SBN to PGD often operates via FWA.
FWA FLM J43 VXV J43 ATL J43 PIE SRQ
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/AAY959
Username: ouboy79
Posted 2012-12-28 13:00:05 and read 4394 times.
Quoting roswell41 (Reply 2):
In a situation like that (inflight fire), whether an airport is a company station is of little concern. FWA was probably the nearest suitable airport and just happens to be a G4 station. An inflight fire in the cabin or cargo hold is probably the emergency most pilots would least prefer.
Exactly. In flight emergency like this you just take what airport you can that divert. FWA was just the nearest one and that is the only thing that matters here. Also shared use gates means nothing with a fire in flight as they are going to evac as soon as it stops on the ground.
Good to see everything turned out alright for the pax and crew.
Username: atlengineer
Posted 2012-12-28 13:32:28 and read 4221 times.
Quoting roswell41 (Reply 2):
In a situation like that (inflight fire), whether an airport is a company station is of little concern. FWA was probably the nearest suitable airport and just happens to be a G4 station. An inflight fire in the cabin or cargo hold is probably the emergency most pilots would least prefer.
It also doesn't hurt that FWA has an 11,981 foot main runway (5/23).
ATLengineer
Username: suseJ772
Posted 2012-12-29 09:51:43 and read 2416 times.
Quoting atlengineer (Reply 5):
It also doesn't hurt that FWA has an 11,981 foot main runway (5/23).
My thoughts as well.
Username: 3holer
Posted 2012-12-29 10:12:24 and read 2188 times.
Quoting FWAERJ (Reply 1):
Not a single one of those things matter when on fire. You land anywhere as fast as possible.
Username: jdj
Posted 2012-12-29 10:35:19 and read 1971 times.
Just an update, Allegiant came back and said there was not a fire in the cargo hold.
Update from NBC-2 http://www.nbc-2.com/story/20441463/...unta-gorda-makes-emergency-landing
Username: bristolflyer
Posted 2012-12-29 10:38:48 and read 1926 times.
If the fire was caused by banned materials being carried in customer luggage would the airline seek compensation from that person?
Username: FWAERJ
Posted 2012-12-29 11:32:03 and read 1511 times.
A replacement plane was sent from the BLI base.
Username: LV
Posted 2012-12-29 13:38:02 and read 1257 times.
Not that it matters but the photographer on the NBC 2 story is a friend of mine. He posted a picture on Facebook standing outside of PGD with his camera at 4 AM.
Username: rfields5421
Posted 2012-12-29 14:22:13 and read 1161 times.
Quoting bristolflyer (Reply 9):
If the fire was caused by banned materials being carried in customer luggage would the airline seek compensation from that person?
It is not worth an airline's trouble to seek compensation from passengers. If a passenger is convicted of a criminal act which led to the delay, diversion, etc - a civil judgement against the passenger might be useful for insurance purposes.
Very few passengers have available economic resources to compensate an airline for the costs in a diversion landing. Taking someone's home won't win the airline any friends.
Plus it is going to cost the airline at least a hundred thousand dollars to bring a lawsuit to trial - so adding a hundred thousand on top of what they have already incurred would likely be throwing good money in the trash.
Username: OB1504
Posted 2012-12-29 23:20:51 and read 895 times.
Quoting 3holer (Reply 7):
Not a single one of those things matter when on fire. You land anywhere as fast as possible.
It's convenient for G4 and the passengers that the aircraft happened to divert to an existing station, but in case of fire, the pilots are always trained to land immediately at the nearest suitable airfield.
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