Mesa Emergency Landing in CHO
12-20-2008, 07:07 AM
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Mesa Emergency Landing in CHO
Anyone know anything about Mesa doing an emergency landing in CHO last night? I was flying out and saw them come in... something about being low on fuel. I can only assume they were trying to go somewhere else in the Northeast and were not able to get in due to the crappy weather that pounded us yesterday. A LOT of flights were canceled ... I think the visibility at IAD when we left to come back home was reported as 0 with VV001 ... great stuff 
12-20-2008, 07:33 AM
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12-20-2008, 11:38 AM
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Airlines have emergency landings every day. What's so big about this one to mention it specifically?
Low fuel? When Hurricane Ike rolled through the midwest a few months ago, an RJ landed in IND with 1100 lbs of fuel. That didn't get mentioned here?
I can recall a couple years ago when my airline had 11 flap fails in 1 day.
Low fuel? When Hurricane Ike rolled through the midwest a few months ago, an RJ landed in IND with 1100 lbs of fuel. That didn't get mentioned here?
I can recall a couple years ago when my airline had 11 flap fails in 1 day.
12-20-2008, 12:40 PM
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Airlines have emergency landings every day. What's so big about this one to mention it specifically?
Low fuel? When Hurricane Ike rolled through the midwest a few months ago, an RJ landed in IND with 1100 lbs of fuel. That didn't get mentioned here?
I can recall a couple years ago when my airline had 11 flap fails in 1 day.
Low fuel? When Hurricane Ike rolled through the midwest a few months ago, an RJ landed in IND with 1100 lbs of fuel. That didn't get mentioned here?
I can recall a couple years ago when my airline had 11 flap fails in 1 day.
At least someone understands why I started this, lol
12-20-2008, 12:42 PM
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12-20-2008, 01:53 PM
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Everytime I've done IAD-ROA I haven't had a problem, but they didn't give me a heck of a lot of gas. This may have been just one of those situations where an oversight took place with the gas. I've actually never had to divert before, in my year and a half here. Of course now that I just said that.....
So what happened? They flew to ROA, couldn't get in, and then went straight to CHO? Or did they try more approaches into ROA? At least they all got on the ground safely!
12-20-2008, 02:02 PM
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All's well that ends well...!
Oh, by the way, we landed an RJ last year at a hair over 1200 pounds...got caught in a 170 knot headwind from which there was no escape. The Fuel page automatically pops up on ED2 at ~1400.
Oh, by the way, we landed an RJ last year at a hair over 1200 pounds...got caught in a 170 knot headwind from which there was no escape. The Fuel page automatically pops up on ED2 at ~1400.
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