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Cargo Hold Fire On Allegiant SBN To PGD

jdj From United States of America, joined Jun 2006, 28 posts, RR: 1
Posted (4 months 3 weeks 5 days 2 hours ago) and read 4814 times:

Allegiant has confirmed that there was a fire in the cargo hold of a flight headed from SBN to PGD. The flight made an emergency landing at FWA.

http://www.nbc-2.com/story/20441463/...unta-gorda-makes-emergency-landing

[Edited 2012-12-28 11:50:03]

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FWAERJ From United States of America, joined Jun 2006, 3175 posts, RR: 1
Reply 1, posted (4 months 3 weeks 5 days 2 hours ago) and read 4699 times:

Quoting jdj (Thread starter):
The flight made an emergency landing at FWA.

Makes sense, as FWA is also served by G4, and all the gates there are shared-use. Just a few mouse clicks and a gate can be activated or switched at FWA.

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roswell41 From United States of America, joined Aug 2001, 576 posts, RR: 1
Reply 2, posted (4 months 3 weeks 5 days 2 hours ago) and read 4679 times:

In a situation like that (inflight fire), whether an airport is a company station is of little concern. FWA was probably the nearest suitable airport and just happens to be a G4 station. An inflight fire in the cabin or cargo hold is probably the emergency most pilots would least prefer.

tjwgrr From United States of America, joined Mar 2000, 2297 posts, RR: 3
Reply 3, posted (4 months 3 weeks 5 days 2 hours ago) and read 4596 times:

Quoting roswell41 (Reply 2):
In a situation like that (inflight fire), whether an airport is a company station is of little concern. FWA was probably the nearest suitable airport and just happens to be a G4 station. An inflight fire in the cabin or cargo hold is probably the emergency most pilots would least prefer.

Agreed. Looks like the routing from SBN to PGD often operates via FWA.

FWA FLM J43 VXV J43 ATL J43 PIE SRQ

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/AAY959

Direct KNOBS, maintain 2700' until established on the localizer, cleared ILS runway 26 left approach.

ouboy79 From United States of America, joined Nov 2001, 4001 posts, RR: 23
Reply 4, posted (4 months 3 weeks 5 days 1 hour ago) and read 4398 times:

Exactly. In flight emergency like this you just take what airport you can that divert. FWA was just the nearest one and that is the only thing that matters here. Also shared use gates means nothing with a fire in flight as they are going to evac as soon as it stops on the ground.

Good to see everything turned out alright for the pax and crew.

Any opinion/comment posted is that of my own and not that of Southwest Airlines Co.

atlengineer From United States of America, joined Jul 2010, 72 posts, RR: 0
Reply 5, posted (4 months 3 weeks 5 days ago) and read 4225 times:

It also doesn't hurt that FWA has an 11,981 foot main runway (5/23).

ATLengineer

suseJ772 From United States of America, joined Aug 2005, 625 posts, RR: 1
Reply 6, posted (4 months 3 weeks 4 days 4 hours ago) and read 2420 times:

Quoting atlengineer (Reply 5):
It also doesn't hurt that FWA has an 11,981 foot main runway (5/23).

My thoughts as well.

Currently at PDK, requesting FWA >> >>

3holer From United States of America, joined Nov 2011, 10 posts, RR: 0
Reply 7, posted (4 months 3 weeks 4 days 4 hours ago) and read 2192 times:

Quoting FWAERJ (Reply 1):

Not a single one of those things matter when on fire. You land anywhere as fast as possible.

jdj From United States of America, joined Jun 2006, 28 posts, RR: 1
Reply 8, posted (4 months 3 weeks 4 days 3 hours ago) and read 1975 times:

Just an update, Allegiant came back and said there was not a fire in the cargo hold.

Update from NBC-2 http://www.nbc-2.com/story/20441463/...unta-gorda-makes-emergency-landing

bristolflyer From United Kingdom, joined May 2004, 2135 posts, RR: 0
Reply 9, posted (4 months 3 weeks 4 days 3 hours ago) and read 1930 times:

If the fire was caused by banned materials being carried in customer luggage would the airline seek compensation from that person?

Fortune favours the brave

FWAERJ From United States of America, joined Jun 2006, 3175 posts, RR: 1
Reply 10, posted (4 months 3 weeks 4 days 2 hours ago) and read 1515 times:

A replacement plane was sent from the BLI base.

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LV From United States of America, joined Jun 2001, 1812 posts, RR: 0
Reply 11, posted (4 months 3 weeks 4 days ago) and read 1261 times:

Not that it matters but the photographer on the NBC 2 story is a friend of mine. He posted a picture on Facebook standing outside of PGD with his camera at 4 AM.

rfields5421 From United States of America, joined Jul 2007, 6150 posts, RR: 25
Reply 12, posted (4 months 3 weeks 4 days ago) and read 1165 times:

Quoting bristolflyer (Reply 9):
If the fire was caused by banned materials being carried in customer luggage would the airline seek compensation from that person?

It is not worth an airline's trouble to seek compensation from passengers. If a passenger is convicted of a criminal act which led to the delay, diversion, etc - a civil judgement against the passenger might be useful for insurance purposes.

Very few passengers have available economic resources to compensate an airline for the costs in a diversion landing. Taking someone's home won't win the airline any friends.

Plus it is going to cost the airline at least a hundred thousand dollars to bring a lawsuit to trial - so adding a hundred thousand on top of what they have already incurred would likely be throwing good money in the trash.

OB1504 From United States of America, joined Jul 2004, 2967 posts, RR: 8
Reply 13, posted (4 months 3 weeks 3 days 15 hours ago) and read 899 times:

Quoting 3holer (Reply 7):
Not a single one of those things matter when on fire. You land anywhere as fast as possible.

It's convenient for G4 and the passengers that the aircraft happened to divert to an existing station, but in case of fire, the pilots are always trained to land immediately at the nearest suitable airfield.

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