bhm747 From United States of America, joined Sep 2011, 2 posts, RR: 0 Posted (1 year 5 months 3 weeks 10 hours ago) and read 3365 times:
How much does it cost an airliner if an 777 flying on an international flight, had to divert the flight and make an emergency landing due to a passenger having a medical emergency?
tdscanuck From Canada, joined Jan 2006, 12709 posts, RR: 80 Reply 1, posted (1 year 5 months 3 weeks 1 hour ago) and read 3211 times:
Quoting bhm747 (Thread starter): How much does it cost an airliner if an 777 flying on an international flight, had to divert the flight and make an emergency landing due to a passenger having a medical emergency?
Too many "depends" to answer...where are they diverting to? How close is the diversion to the final destination? What are they doing with the passengers? What are their prior arrangements with the diversion airport?
For example, if you were an American carrier flying Tokyo-Los Angeles and diverted into Seattle, probably not bad...you might have maintenance and operations people there, there are plenty of connections to get other passengers to their final destination, etc.
If you were flying LA-Singapore and ended up diverting to, say, Ho Chi Minh City the picture might not be as rosy.
Markhkg From United States of America, joined Dec 2005, 960 posts, RR: 2 Reply 3, posted (1 year 5 months 2 weeks 6 days 22 hours ago) and read 3157 times:
Per this source, ranges from $15,000 to as high as $893,000.
Chamonix From France, joined Mar 2011, 295 posts, RR: 1 Reply 5, posted (1 year 5 months 2 weeks 6 days 8 hours ago) and read 2934 times:
An interesting 3-part documentary on air safety said that one of the factors that why SR111 Captain did not make a beeline for Halifax by circling to dump fuel was that he feared an overweight landing would be a costly affair in terms of writeoff and reputation.
He wanted to land intact by not chancing it.
The MD-11 is certified for overweight landings albeit bits and parts may come off.
The 3-part documentary is in French. http://dl.free.fr/getfile.pl?file=/PZO2ovjV http://dl.free.fr/getfile.pl?file=/rcnivOf8 http://dl.free.fr/getfile.pl?file=/2NWE8vNN
bristolflyer From United Kingdom, joined May 2004, 2135 posts, RR: 0 Reply 7, posted (1 year 5 months 2 weeks 5 days 5 hours ago) and read 2583 times:
On a somewhat related note, I was on a Ryanair flight once which couldn't land in Bristol due to fog. So we diverted to Bournemouth. Surely Birmingham was easier for all the passengers, but I guess Ryanair doesn't serve BHX so would they have got charged up the wazoo for landing there?
Fabo From Slovakia, joined Aug 2005, 1111 posts, RR: 1 Reply 8, posted (1 year 5 months 2 weeks 5 days 4 hours ago) and read 2563 times:
Quoting Viscount724 (Reply 6): As far as I know, virtually all aircraft can and often do land overweight perfectly legally when there's a valid reason to do so.
IIRC all aircraft as certified are supposed to be able to land without significant damage and safely up to their maximum certified take-off mass.
Quoting bristolflyer (Reply 7): Surely Birmingham was easier for all the passengers, but I guess Ryanair doesn't serve BHX so would they have got charged up the wazoo for landing there?
Not just that, but is just generally easier to organise for both airline and airport if they have contract and procedures in place.
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tdscanuck From Canada, joined Jan 2006, 12709 posts, RR: 80 Reply 9, posted (1 year 5 months 2 weeks 5 days 2 hours ago) and read 2499 times:
Quoting Fabo (Reply 8): IIRC all aircraft as certified are supposed to be able to land without significant damage and safely up to their maximum certified take-off mass.
If it was capable of taxing and taking off, it's capable of landing at the same weight (up to and including MTOW). It's all about controlling sink rate (controlling structural load).
airportugal310 From United States of America, joined Apr 2004, 3064 posts, RR: 2 Reply 10, posted (1 year 5 months 2 weeks 4 days 7 hours ago) and read 2314 times:
Quoting tdscanuck (Reply 9): If it was capable of taxing and taking off, it's capable of landing at the same weight (up to and including MTOW). It's all about controlling sink rate (controlling structural load).
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