Cedarjet From United Kingdom, joined exactly 14 years ago today! , 7709 posts, RR: 55 Reply 1, posted (6 years 10 months 3 weeks 4 days 18 hours ago) and read 4118 times:
Montreal-Shannon on Thomas Cook Airlines is an interesting story in itself, let alone the rest of it. Anyone know more about why it went into YYZ in the end, and how a Herc could keep up?
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Jamesontheroad From United Kingdom, joined Jul 2005, 518 posts, RR: 1 Reply 4, posted (6 years 10 months 3 weeks 4 days 17 hours ago) and read 4010 times:
Previous posters correct: Thomas Cook do not operate YUL - SNN... there are two departures a week during the summer for Canadian Affair, one to LGW (Sunday) and one to MAN (Wednesday). I know that the MAN service operates MAN-YUL-YYZ-YUL-MAN. Unless it departed YUL with the intention of only making it to SNN.......?
Tristar2000 From Canada, joined Dec 2000, 274 posts, RR: 0 Reply 8, posted (6 years 10 months 3 weeks 4 days 11 hours ago) and read 3634 times:
Better facilities in YYZ??? than YUL, YQB or YMX??? I think bigger would be the word! I can't see what would be better... they all have firefighters (duhhhh) and they don't use that white foam anymore during emergency situations.
YYZ is busy, so more complications... more delays for flights etc... and excuse me for asking, but unless you want to burn fuel... isn't landing sooner the best concept during an emergency.
Anyways, haven't read the story yet.. so I am just speculating, but YMX is the perfect airport in the area for emergencies... no traffic, away from residential areas, etc.!
Irobertson From Canada, joined Apr 2006, 601 posts, RR: 4 Reply 9, posted (6 years 10 months 3 weeks 4 days 10 hours ago) and read 3583 times:
It could be multiple things, maybe maintenance reasons, maybe they could load the passengers onto another plane to Shannon sooner. This plane was probably on charter for someone else going YUL-SNN, maybe Transat? I'm only speculating, but I'm sure there are good reasons for all of these.
As for a Herc keeping up with a 757, lets use some common sense here. By the time it was nearing Trenton, it was probably well below 20,000 feet, maybe even at 10,000, and highly unlikely it was doing cruise speeds (450 knots). Hercs can manage 300 knots, probably do 275 comfortably, and if the 757 was at a lower altitude, it would probably be around this speed (my own guesses). The reason it was a Herc was probably one of coincidence; it was probably the only plane in the area that was reasonably ready to scramble, and any set of eyes in the event of a disaster is beneficial to rapid response (you know exactly where and when the crash is and how bad it looks, etc etc etc). That it was a Herc and not something else like a CF-18 is irrelavant, imho.
I'm sure more info will surface. Glad everything turned out okay.
CanoeGuy From Canada, joined Aug 2005, 9 posts, RR: 0 Reply 10, posted (6 years 10 months 3 weeks 4 days 9 hours ago) and read 3527 times:
Quoting Irobertson (Reply 9): As for a Herc keeping up with a 757, lets use some common sense here. By the time it was nearing Trenton, it was probably well below 20,000 feet, maybe even at 10,000, and highly unlikely it was doing cruise speeds (450 knots). Hercs can manage 300 knots, probably do 275 comfortably, and if the 757 was at a lower altitude, it would probably be around this speed (my own guesses). The reason it was a Herc was probably one of coincidence; it was probably the only plane in the area that was reasonably ready to scramble, and any set of eyes in the event of a disaster is beneficial to rapid response (you know exactly where and when the crash is and how bad it looks, etc etc etc). That it was a Herc and not something else like a CF-18 is irrelavant, imho.
Well that puts a damper on my Harrison Ford/Air Force One theory, which personally I think is FAR more likely, but it certainly makes a lot of common sense.
Quoting Tristar2000 (Reply 8): YYZ is busy, so more complications... more delays for flights etc...
Yep, as someone who tried desparately for 30 hours last week before succeeding in getting home to YYZ from ATL, all because of a few lousy t-storms, let me tell you YYZ did not need more complications this week.
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