Ben88 From United States of America, joined Dec 1999, 1093 posts, RR: 3 Posted (12 years 10 months 3 weeks 3 days 23 hours ago) and read 1301 times:
Today (7/4/00) at 4:30 p.m. (at LAX) I saw an AOM DC-10 take off from runway 24L. This seemed odd to me because AOM only operates night flights from LAX. LAX-ORY departing at 9:40, and LAX-PPT departing around midnight. Does anyone know why this DC-10 took off at 4:30 and where it was heading? I can never snap a shot of an AOM bird because they always take off at night. I finally had the opportunity and my camera battery died 10 minutes before I spotted the DC-10. What a shame!
Iainhol From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 1, posted (12 years 10 months 3 weeks 3 days 18 hours ago) and read 1253 times:
It could have been there for maintenance as United and FedEx have large facilities there. It could also be doing a charter for another company or a private charter. I know they do a lot of charter work and even do some cuban flight but I doubt this flight went there!
Iain
Ben88 From United States of America, joined Dec 1999, 1093 posts, RR: 3 Reply 2, posted (12 years 10 months 3 weeks 3 days 16 hours ago) and read 1247 times:
Does anyone else have any ideas on what this plane was doing there at this time? Thanks,
ZRH From Switzerland, joined Nov 1999, 5540 posts, RR: 40 Reply 3, posted (12 years 10 months 3 weeks 3 days 15 hours ago) and read 1241 times:
I don't think that this DC 10 was there for maintenance because Swissair (AOM is partly owened by the SAirGoup) has a large DC 10 / MD 11 maintenance base at Zurich. Perhaps it was a charter flight.
Ben88 From United States of America, joined Dec 1999, 1093 posts, RR: 3 Reply 4, posted (12 years 10 months 3 weeks 3 days 14 hours ago) and read 1240 times:
My first thought was that it might be a replacement for the A340 (F-GLZF) that is being repaired in ZRH. Perhaps this plane was flying the LAX-ORY flight one day late because of an equiptment change.
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