LipeGIG From Brazil, joined May 2005, 11200 posts, RR: 61 Reply 6, posted (2 years 9 months 1 week 4 days 11 hours ago) and read 4639 times:
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Quoting jj8080 (Reply 4): My question would be how the plane ended up in this position if it was landing??
It seems like an electric or technical issue as they were in fact going to GIG after problems have been notified but it couldn't. Lucky that it was closer to the airport as if it happens in the middle of Guanabara Bay, results could not be that good.
Quoting Viscount724 (Reply 5): It's surprising there haven't been more accidents at SDU considering the longest runway is only 4,341 ft. with virtually no overrun at either end.
There's a lot of restrictions in place. All airlines only authorizes captains to land and take off there, and co-pilot operation is just not allowed. Further, they use their most powerfull aircrafts in general without cargo and on short routes (with a few exceptions)
But i agree, it's such a small runway and there's no overrun at all. It's really a kind of "ETOPS" airport as passengers will swim !
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jj8080 From Brazil, joined Aug 2008, 932 posts, RR: 0 Reply 7, posted (2 years 9 months 1 week 3 days 23 hours ago) and read 4372 times:
Quoting LipeGIG (Reply 6): There's a lot of restrictions in place. All airlines only authorizes captains to land and take off there, and co-pilot operation is just not allowed. Further, they use their most powerfull aircrafts in general without cargo and on short routes (with a few exceptions)
But i agree, it's such a small runway and there's no overrun at all. It's really a kind of "ETOPS" airport as passengers will swim !
Indeed. A320s are no allowed there with full load, as well as regular 738s (remember used to operate them there with 140 pax block). Although, 738SFP does operate there, and I am quite sure in many cases loaded with 187 pax. Amazing performance.
I don't understand why they never extended SDU's runway, as it must not be that hard (no houses, or anything). Say, with 1.600m, they would be able to handle all A320s and 737s around, also turning all other operations safer.
Thanks for bringing that up! Interesting concept, should be generalised around the world.
Unless you have a CRITICAL system failure, I don't know what reason would make a pilot choose to divert in SDU as opposed to GIG. Must have been quite dramatic.
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