http://flightaware.com/live/flight/D...5/history/20071213/1232Z/KTPA/KLAX
Any Info on this from anyone? Looks at the flight path.
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RE: DAL1465 Diverted To ABQ From TPA
Judging from the fact that they've already filed to continue on to LAX (at 0950 local), a medical issue or an unruly passenger would be the two logical guesses.
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RE: DAL1465 Diverted To ABQ From TPA
I figured that...I fly on this flight alot and was just a bit curious. They still havent departed yet though. Well see, hopefully all is okay.
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RE: DAL1465 Diverted To ABQ From TPA
| Quoting Beefstew25 (Reply 3): Here is another funny one. Any info on this? |
The flight track was needed to lose altitude for a descent into IAH for a medical diversion.
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RE: DAL1465 Diverted To ABQ From TPA
| Quoting Philcresci (Reply 2): I figured that...I fly on this flight alot and was just a bit curious. They still havent departed yet though. Well see, hopefully all is okay. |
They wound up departing about 1030 local
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/DAL1465
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RE: DAL1465 Diverted To ABQ From TPA
| Quoting IAHFLYR (Reply 4): The flight track was needed to lose altitude for a descent into IAH for a medical diversion. |
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/A...1/history/20071213/1330Z/KFLL/KIAH
With due respect, operationally, that doesn't make much sense...
It doesn't take that long to get down, and at the point which their original FLL-LAS route changed (around JAN), BTR, JAN, and MSY could have all served as landing points.
What's not known are what the actual medical sitiation and condition of the pax (i.e. the level of "urgency"). A long FLL-LAS flight would have most likely had them landing at JAN, BTR, or MSY over max structural landing weight (MLW) whereas landing at IAH (being further) perhaps did not. Maybe those turns NE of IAH were to get that last bit of fuel burned off to make MLW at IAH.
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RE: DAL1465 Diverted To ABQ From TPA
| Quoting OPNLguy (Reply 7): operationally, that doesn't make much sense... It doesn't take that long to get down, and at the point which their original FLL-LAS route changed (around JAN), BTR, JAN, and MSY could have all served as landing points. What's not known are what the actual medical sitiation and condition of the pax (i.e. the level of "urgency"). A long FLL-LAS flight would have most likely had them landing at JAN, BTR, or MSY over max structural landing weight (MLW) whereas landing at IAH (being further) perhaps did not. Maybe those turns NE of IAH were to get that last bit of fuel burned off to make MLW at IAH. |
No it doesn't make much sense, only passed along information I was told when asked about the divert! That is what I get for listening to a, oh never mind!
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RE: DAL1465 Diverted To ABQ From TPA
| Quoting OPNLguy (Reply 7): their original FLL-LAS route changed |
I gotta ask: an FLL-LAS nonstop that's filed via MEI and LIT? Were the enroute winds or other weather that bad where they had to file that far north? I'd figure a bit more of an LEV-LCH/AEX-MAF-FLG-PGS-type routing...
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RE: DAL1465 Diverted To ABQ From TPA
Didn't a DL 777 (ATL-LAX) divert to ABQ about a month ago for the same reason????
RE: DAL1465 Diverted To ABQ From TPA
| Quoting Juventus (Reply 10): Didn't a DL 777 (ATL-LAX) divert to ABQ about a month ago for the same reason???? |
Yes. DL 152 (LAX-ATL-TLV) diverted due to medical.
ABQ is a great diversion airport for large AC due to lots of really long runways here due to Kirtland AFB attached to airport.
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RE: DAL1465 Diverted To ABQ From TPA
....cept the weather over south Louisiana (at least) today was fine. Even flights that go around the corner of the Florida panhandle (a/c that aren't over water equipped) and then out west take more of a westward routing as opposed to a northwest routing. Wind/jetstream avoidance reasons I'd buy today...t-storms I don't believe were a factor this morning.
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RE: DAL1465 Diverted To ABQ From TPA
| Quoting Juventus (Reply 10): Didn't a DL 777 (ATL-LAX) divert to ABQ about a month ago for the same reason???? |
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/D...2/history/20071026/2001Z/KLAX/KABQ
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/D...2/history/20071026/2333Z/KABQ/KATL
RE: DAL1465 Diverted To ABQ From TPA
| Quoting Tom in NO (Reply 9): I gotta ask: an FLL-LAS nonstop that's filed via MEI and LIT? Were the enroute winds or other weather that bad where they had to file that far north? I'd figure a bit more of an LEV-LCH/AEX-MAF-FLG-PGS-type routing... |
Best winds routes change from day-to-day due to the jet stream. This time of year, (using BWI-PHX as an example), some days I'm going via MKE, some days via STL, and some days via HOU.
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RE: DAL1465 Diverted To ABQ From TPA
| Quoting OPNLguy (Reply 15): Best winds routes change from day-to-day due to the jet stream. |
I knew it had to be a jetstream issue. The local weatherman last night depicted the jetstream as currently crossing the deep south (including over LA) pretty much due east-west. Winds up north must've been so much lighter as to make what amounted to a 200-mile detour advantageous.
Tom at MSY
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RE: DAL1465 Diverted To ABQ From TPA
| Quoting Tom in NO (Reply 16): Winds up north must've been so much lighter as to make what amounted to a 200-mile detour advantageous. |
And the flight planning computer(s) look at shortest route/high winds versus longer routes/lesser winds, and let us know which has the lowest fuel burn/time.
It's that time of year... Fortunately, I have a "tailwind" desk later this afternoon...all my flights are eastbound...
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