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SQ A380 Back To CDG Today

Varig md-11 From France, joined Jul 2000, 1575 posts, RR: 9
Posted (3 years 5 months 1 week 6 hours ago) and read 6169 times:

Today SQ333 made a u-turn 2 hours after taking off for singapore.
It landed back at CDG around 16.30

An electrical problem made the galleys unusable.
Decision was taken to send the A380 back to CDG where airbus technicians apparently repaired the problem

The pax never deplaned and were kept inside; when I left my shift (19.00) the plane was repaired, pax inside and SQ CDG station desperately looking for a fresh crew!!!

I can't imagine the horror of being trapped as a pax in such a situation...even on comfortable SQ A380 it makes a trip of minimum 20 hours instead of 12

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Loalq From Switzerland, joined Jan 2007, 196 posts, RR: 3
Reply 1, posted (3 years 5 months 1 week 6 hours ago) and read 6157 times:

Very interesting and a logistic nightmare for SQ.

Where would they get a fresh crew from?

"...this is your captain speaking. We have a small problem. All four engines have stopped."

Varig md-11 From France, joined Jul 2000, 1575 posts, RR: 9
Reply 2, posted (3 years 5 months 1 week 6 hours ago) and read 6079 times:

For the crew, I heard they were trying to recall some of the crew arrived yesterday morning...
but I don't know the details of how it would work

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Loalq From Switzerland, joined Jan 2007, 196 posts, RR: 3
Reply 3, posted (3 years 5 months 1 week 6 hours ago) and read 6005 times:

Wouldn't the crew that arrived yesterday be the one flying back home today? How long is their layover in Paris?

"...this is your captain speaking. We have a small problem. All four engines have stopped."

Goldorak From France, joined Sep 2006, 1673 posts, RR: 3
Reply 4, posted (3 years 5 months 1 week 5 hours ago) and read 5947 times:

Definitely a bad week for the A380 serving CDG...

MadameConcorde From San Marino, joined Feb 2007, 10243 posts, RR: 40
Reply 5, posted (3 years 5 months 1 week 5 hours ago) and read 5866 times:

Oh my... another A380 incident. The aircraft certainly does not need such publicity.

As to SQ they always do all they can to minimize the trouble. I am sure they will give the passengers vouchers for discounts on their next flights or some other perks.
It is always unconvenient to be stuck inside an aircraft while it is grounded.

I remember our adventure and forced grounding at NGO on the first A380 flight from Singapore to Narita. We got diverted to NGO because of a typhoon and had to sety on the ground some 3 hours before flying back to our original destination. There was tension among the crew and among the passengers as we did not really know what was going on and were placed all the way at the end of the terminals. They brought us some bentos and all but we were all eager to goiing back to NRT as some of us were scheduled to fly back to Singapore on the same aircraft for the NRT-Singapore first 380 flight.

There was a better way to fly it was called Concorde

Varig md-11 From France, joined Jul 2000, 1575 posts, RR: 9
Reply 6, posted (3 years 5 months 6 days 17 hours ago) and read 5316 times:

@Loalq
I assume the layover is 2 nights,on AF above a 10.5 hours flight it's 2 nights, 1 night below 10.5

At any rate they were not trying to recall the crew that arrived the same morning!!
They needed to total 16 crew to be able to take off but lots of them were shopping for xmas downtown Paris and were difficult to reach

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Loalq From Switzerland, joined Jan 2007, 196 posts, RR: 3
Reply 7, posted (3 years 5 months 6 days 12 hours ago) and read 4867 times:

Quoting Varig md-11 (Reply 6):
They needed to total 16 crew to be able to take off but lots of them were shopping for xmas downtown Paris and were difficult to reach

I can imagine SQ calling the first one and then all the rest turning their mobiles off...

"...this is your captain speaking. We have a small problem. All four engines have stopped."

Varig md-11 From France, joined Jul 2000, 1575 posts, RR: 9
Reply 8, posted (3 years 5 months 6 days 12 hours ago) and read 4632 times:

Quoting Loalq (Reply 7):
I can imagine SQ calling the first one and then all the rest turning their mobiles off...

Indeed! I heard they reached a first batch of mobile phones and then oddly enough the rest of the crew had their mobile "out of reach"

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TaromA380 From Romania, joined Sep 2005, 332 posts, RR: 0
Reply 9, posted (3 years 5 months 6 days 12 hours ago) and read 4472 times:

They can always let a voice message with the impossible-to-refuse proposal for coming to rescue the flight. Big grin

Dlphoenix From United States of America, joined Aug 2007, 412 posts, RR: 0
Reply 10, posted (3 years 5 months 6 days 8 hours ago) and read 2820 times:

Quoting TaromA380 (Reply 9):
They can always let a voice message with the impossible-to-refuse proposal for coming to rescue the flight.

No need to shut the phone.
All you need is to state that you consumed enough alcohol to put you over the limit and you are off the hook.

DLP

LY777 From France, joined Nov 2005, 2446 posts, RR: 2
Reply 11, posted (3 years 5 months 6 days 8 hours ago) and read 2713 times:

All these incidents start to be annoying...I hope they will be resolved soon

אמא, אני מתגעגע לך

Orbis From Mexico, joined Dec 2003, 244 posts, RR: 1
Reply 12, posted (3 years 5 months 5 days 22 hours ago) and read 1810 times:

Quoting LY777 (Reply 11):
No need to shut the phone.
All you need is to state that you consumed enough alcohol to put you over the limit and you are off the hook.

C´mon, that is very unlikely to happen in Paris .....

we should live our lives as if we were really alive!!! H.M.

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