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Tristar in emergency landing
Posted: 05 Sep 2011, 14:10
by John
Re: Tristar in emergency landing
Posted: 05 Sep 2011, 14:36
by DaveB
Ooo.. more, more.. I want to know more!
ATB
DaveB

Re: Tristar in emergency landing
Posted: 05 Sep 2011, 15:26
by DarrenL
http://www.pprune.org/spectators-balcon ... burgh.html
Flaps not working according to that.
A Tristar for transporting 1 person though? Surely there would have been more on board, or stores or something.
Re: Tristar in emergency landing
Posted: 05 Sep 2011, 15:33
by DaveB
Cheers Darren

Flapless/slatless landings are regularly practised so I doubt there was any real emergency. The ground troops would be on standby just in case

Yes.. a TriStar for one bod does seem a bit excessive but the aircraft may have been on another sortie and diverted to pick him up. I remember getting up early one Wed to watch Tonks landing at Brize only to find he'd landed some hours before.. d'oh!

Reason was compassionate/medevac.. something of that nature and they were in the right place at the right time to bring the chap back
ATB
DaveB

Re: Tristar in emergency landing
Posted: 05 Sep 2011, 17:23
by Hot_Charlie
DarrenL wrote:
A Tristar for transporting 1 person though? Surely there would have been more on board, or stores or something.
Dave's entirely correct. It's not unusual to see a C17, TriStar or VC10 carrying a single passenger. Compassionate cases are something the MoD and RAF are very good at.

Re: Tristar in emergency landing
Posted: 05 Sep 2011, 18:01
by Tomliner
Dave,I've sent a PM that might be of interest to you.

EricT
Re: Tristar in emergency landing
Posted: 05 Sep 2011, 18:13
by FlyTexas
DarrenL wrote:A Tristar for transporting 1 person though?
A nonrev no doubt.

I was on a Southwest flight once that had more nonrevs aboard than revs.
Brian
Re: Tristar in emergency landing
Posted: 05 Sep 2011, 21:14
by DaveB
Tks for the PM Eric
ATB
DaveB
