UPSMD11 From United States of America, joined May 2003, 799 posts, RR: 4 Posted (4 years 8 months 4 days 21 hours ago) and read 1904 times:
Good evening all,
Just looking at my usual SDF Flightaware page and noticed an arrival from PHL which was really a divert from a PHL-BNA flight. The flight was almost in BNA, any reason why it could have diverted to SDF which seems further away.
Both cities seem to be having no weather problems, etc.
Apodino From United States of America, joined Apr 2005, 3635 posts, RR: 6 Reply 2, posted (4 years 8 months 4 days 17 hours ago) and read 1635 times:
The IAD diversion was most likely a mechanical, since IAD would have been the nearest suitable airport as defined by a QRH procedure.
As for the BNA diversion to SDF, that one is puzzling. A nearest suitable for a mechanical would be BNA in that situation, and the metars all look like beautiful weather. The only things that I could possibly think of would be some sort of problem on the Ground in BNA, like a security breach or power failure. But if something like that happened, it would affect a lot more than an Air Wisky flight.
OPNLguy From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 3, posted (4 years 8 months 4 days 17 hours ago) and read 1600 times:
Quoting Apodino (Reply 2): The IAD diversion was most likely a mechanical, since IAD would have been the nearest suitable airport as defined by a QRH procedure.
I'd have thought that CHO, LWB, or CRW were closer to the point of the 180-degree turn than IAD was...
Scoobyd75 From United States of America, joined Dec 2004, 42 posts, RR: 0 Reply 7, posted (4 years 8 months 4 days 4 hours ago) and read 1235 times:
Hey guys I work for express in PHL I just found out that the Anti-Skid on the aircraft was inop or not functioning and the long runway in BNA was closed a thing the Air Wisky dispatch failed to remember abd inform the crew.. So the closest long runway as crazy as this may seem was SDF.Then it gets better there was no transporttation because of the ryder cup so they sent the flight from SDF to CVG with the PAX swapped to another aircraft in CVG and then flew to BNA with the new aircraft from there. Flight from hell if you ask me.
Apodino From United States of America, joined Apr 2005, 3635 posts, RR: 6 Reply 8, posted (4 years 8 months 4 days 4 hours ago) and read 1185 times:
Quoting Scoobyd75 (Reply 7): Hey guys I work for express in PHL I just found out that the Anti-Skid on the aircraft was inop or not functioning and the long runway in BNA was closed a thing the Air Wisky dispatch failed to remember abd inform the crew.. So the closest long runway as crazy as this may seem was SDF.Then it gets better there was no transporttation because of the ryder cup so they sent the flight from SDF to CVG with the PAX swapped to another aircraft in CVG and then flew to BNA with the new aircraft from there. Flight from hell if you ask me.
That makes total sense now. The Anti Skid is a very restrictive MEL and I have diverted flights into EWR and SWF from LGA because of it failing before. The dispatcher should have noticed this and told someone, and the Pilot should have caught it. That being said, with the workload the Air Wisconsin dispatchers are asked to work these days (which can be as high as 100 flights per ten hour shift with 14 and sometimes 18 aircraft at a time), it is easy for these things to slip past. In fact, starting this month, management has cut 1 shift from each day, so you have 1 fewer dispatcher each day. The TWU quietly approved this without consulting the membership either. I tip my hat off to this group for accomplishing what they do, because SOC management seems to turn SOC into a Mesa lookalike every day. And that worries me because ZW is much, much better that Mesa.
Not to mention the state of PHL mx right now. They can't keep mechanics there, they have very few as it is, and the ones they have aren't exactly the cream of the crop.
I look at ZW and I look at OO. Management always tells us we need to get our costs in line with OO. But yet, OO can afford things like inflight magazines, Sel Cal, Category 2 approach certification, an ATC coordinator for SOC, Acars Printers, and everything. We can't afford any of those things according to management, and somehow we have higher operating costs than SkyWest. That really baffles me, and I can't get management to give me a good answer on that.
OPNLguy From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 9, posted (4 years 8 months 4 days 2 hours ago) and read 1109 times:
Quoting Scoobyd75 (Reply 7): I just found out that the Anti-Skid on the aircraft was inop or not functioning and the long runway in BNA was closed a thing the Air Wisky dispatch failed to remember abd inform the crew..
You know for a fact that it was inop before departure and deferred as per the MEL versus it having failed enroute?
Scoobyd75 From United States of America, joined Dec 2004, 42 posts, RR: 0 Reply 10, posted (4 years 8 months 4 days 2 hours ago) and read 1054 times:
Yes because my superviser in Express Ops in PHL was the one that informed me This afternoon and he was the one who spoke to Air Wiskey MTC last night and they informed him they knew of the MEL but failed to inform the crew of the closed runway in BNA
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