Originally Posted by whitt767

Obviously the Flight attendants fault for not giving the Capt a lid for his coffee...

United Airlines Pilot's Coffee Spill Forces Emergency Landing

Updated: Wednesday, 05 Jan 2011, 7:13 AM EST
Published : Wednesday, 05 Jan 2011, 7:02 AM EST

A United Airlines flight from Chicago to Germany was forced to make an emergency landing in Canada after a pilot spilled coffee on the plane's radio equipment.

UA Flight 940 was carrying 241 passengers on Monday when the 777-200's communication and navigation equipment malfunctioned, prompting the flight crew to land just before 10:00 p.m. local time Monday at Toronto's Pearson International Airport.

While the airline refused to confirm that spilled coffee triggered the problem, the detail was noted by the Aviation Herald , a website that logs incidents on commercial flights based on flight data and incident reports.

NAV Canada reported that the crew advised of communication problems, and then reported they had navigation problems as well. The crew cycled through the transponder codes for unlawful interference and loss of communication.

It said that the FAA reported after contact with the company, that the pilot in command had spilled coffee over the radio equipment which interfered with the communication equipment. He inadvertently sent an unlawful interference code, then changed to loss of communication code.

A replacement 777-200 was sent to pick up the passengers and take them back to Chicago, where they were set to board another flight for Frankfurt on Tuesday.

Originally Posted by tsquare

Four Fathers?

Originally Posted by tsquare

No, no... it's great... you'll love it. Where's LAD?

Originally Posted by nwaf16dude

hell's freezing over, cats and dogs are living together, and i completely agree with alfaromeo!

Originally Posted by maddogmax

Sarcasm noted. I think LAD is a new destination. 5 hours from DKR. Maybe the Capital of Somalia?

Originally Posted by acl65pilot

In all fairness, I commented on the Mod threads on a reported post. I have asked the mods to reaffirm how we moderate reposted articles of political nature. Like I have said, we have previously allowed them until the bashing started. We will see of the consensus has changed.

Originally Posted by hockeypilot44

I thought our 70 seaters were pretty much maxed out, but who's counting (certainly not ALPA)?

Originally Posted by scambo1

When I was getting ready to blast out of shanghai a couple weeks ago, a China eastern md90 was landing. I thought those were already in our possesion (in the form of a question). Are Chinese pilots or DAL pilots or outside contractors ferrying these to the US?

Originally Posted by alfaromeo

Is this board going to become just another red/blue garbage pit then please let us know. Since most on this board, including you, have a right wing bias, you let repeated violations of the terms of service go on. In the past, this type of post was removed immediately. So if this is going to become the "right wing airline pilots forum" then please let us know.