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Southwest Boeing 737 Max Makes Emergency Landing at Orlando International
- ronilan 8y agoTLDR: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said the plane experienced an engine problem.
- broken_symlink 8y agoI don't know exactly how grounding works, but is there a reason why the plane can't just stay in Orlando?
- exabrial 8y agoThey probably don't have hanger space in Orlando.
- l31g 8y agohangar
- outworlder 8y agoLike, on a corner somewhere?
- heyoni 8y agoRight? Was south west given an exemption or did it expire?
- cremp 8y agoGrounding really applies to passenger flights. Airlines are allowed to 'move' the plane from one location to another if there are no passengers.
- saryant 8y agoCommercial airports usually have limited room for storing aircraft. Lots of airlines use the aircraft graveyard at Victorville, CA. It's a desert with very low humidity which helps preserve the airframe while it's unused, plus storage fees are much cheaper than those levied by a commercial airport.
- dordoka 8y agoPlayback of flight: https://www.flightradar24.com/data/flights/wn8701#1ff0449a https://www.flightradar24.com/data/flights/wn8701#1ff0449a
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- misterprime 8y agoThe brief article does not list what type of 737 Max this was. I know type 8 and 9 were grounded. I'm assuming this is a different type, but am unsure. edit the playback linked by a different user shows that it was a Max 8. Why wasn't this grounded?
- outworlder 8y ago> edit the playback linked by a different user shows that it was a Max 8. Why wasn't this grounded? It was, and is. It's just stuck where it was not supposed to be.
- semi-extrinsic 8y agoIt was a flight without passengers, moving this plane to Victorville CA where it would be stored when grounded.
- LammyL 8y agoIt’s a ferry flight with no passengers so that the airline can move the airplane from Florida to California where parking rates are cheaper. You can apply for a ferry permit from the FAA to get special permission to move a non-airworthy aircraft provided specific conditions are met.
- coob 8y ago> after one crashed in Nairobi The Ethiopian Airways flight crashed outside of Addis Ababa - in a whole other country.
- twoslide 8y agoFox News
- dopamean 8y agoThis seems like a non story... The plane turned back because of engine trouble. Sounds pretty routine to me.
- alkonaut 8y agoSo: - this was (per FAA) a regular engine problem and seems unrelated to the MAX control issues. As such it could have happened to any flight. - Since people have asked repeatedly: 737MAX can still fly, just not regular passenger traffic. Airlines now shuffle them around to where they want them (where there is room to store them, where they can get necessary fixes quickly once they are available etc. Typically a hub airport for the airline in question). All in all this was a pretty uninteresting event.
- broken_symlink 8y agoWhy do they still allow this though? Its not like the plane can't crash if there are no passengers in it. There is still a risk of the plane crashing in a residential area for example.
- mjevans 8y agoThe failure mode is pretty well known, there's already was a known workaround (but pilots need to be properly briefed on it to know to actually apply it in these cases). There's not official certification on said workaround, and a longer term and more proper fix is currently in testing, so it doesn't make sense to create a procedure to use the current operating configuration in a passenger context.
- dzhiurgis 8y agoHow do you transport it to service center?
- alkonaut 8y agoThe risk of a crash simply isn’t high enough to ground it completely.
- ddenisen 8y ago> Officials went on to say that there were only two passengers: a pilot and a co-pilot Brilliant reporting by Fox News as always