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A US AIRWAYS flight to Philadelphia has had to turn around and return to Dublin after encountering difficulties shortly after takeoff.
Flight 723 is believed to have experienced difficulties with its flaps. It declared an emergency landing and landed a short time ago.
The plane was carrying 132 people at the time and had 162,000 pounds of jet A1 fuel. Airport fire service fire fighters were informed that the landing would be heavy.
Before landing, the captain of the flight upgraded the situation to an aircraft emergency. The airport’s fire service despatched five aviation fire trucks to the runway. As the plane touched down, the fire crew followed until it had taxied off the runway.
Airport fire service personnel then followed the aircraft onto stand where they stayed until there was a full stand down.
Dublin Fire Brigade say they received a call at 11.48am and has dispatched four units, the environmental unit, the Dublin Incident Command Unit, a foam tender and a district officer.
Dublin Airport says the mobilisation was standard procedure.
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Nothing worse than dodgy flaps
You’ve obviously never came across saggy ones
Or baggy ones
Hairy bacon malfunction
Currently on the flight. We’ve just landed in Dublin again and have been told it’ll be approx 20 mins before any update. Crew being great and have handed out water etc.
Well for ye heading of to philly
Run now get off the plane.
That is a brilliant response. Only in Ireland :)
Never had a philly Steak, wonder what their like?
Should you be using a phone?
Hate people that do that on planes
:)
A lot of airlines now allow the use of phones and do not require them to be switched off…..once the flight touches down , phones can be switched on……
Water
Check the left phalange
What was the ‘phone tender’???
It’s what happens when you can’t read your own appalling handwriting. It is, of course a FOAM tender.
Ah Paul. Tell the truth. I’d say you got a foam call describing the incident and took it down wrong.
Tehehe…flaps
This happens with the same US Airways plane multiple times Dublin to Philadelphia. Not the first and won’t be the last, this plane is ancient and unfortunately I have flown in multiple times!
Same old plane, same airline, same route in Jan 2014 – http://www.thejournal.ie/emergency-landing-1258375-Jan2014/
The Philadelphia & Charlotte ex US routes will be flown with an A330 in the Summer, bit of reassurance for the passengers!
@Mark they said that last year too but it didn’t operate every day, I only got to fly on it once, otherwise I was stuck on the ancient Boeing with multiple delays last summer on DUB to PHL route. I switched to the PHL to SNN during the summer as it’s more reliable.
Correct. US Airways use a Boeing 767-201 manufactured in ’88 and its certification is due to expire on 30th April’15 on the Dublin-Philadelphia route. Many planes being used to fly to/from Ireland (especially by US carriers) are old planes nearing end of life. Even our own airline has used a few dubious ones recently on contract!!!
Well, better to turn around and do a safe emergency landing, than to crash
No. No updates. Still holding us on the plane, despite asking to get off.
No communication or help from staff.
There is a reason theyre not letting ypu off. They should TELL you but thinkinb of the recent A380 emergency landing there was a fuel leak so they had to blast the area w foam first or the fumes could catch fire with say lighting a cigarette.
Ryanair flight ex Barca bound for Dublin Turned around also, 7700 emergency reported.
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I believe Jason is talking about Ryanair flight FR6874 from Barcelona to Dublin this morning which broadcast code 7700 from the transponder (international code for emergency) 2 minutes after takeoff and returned to Barcelona.
Transponder code 7700 means emergency 7600 radio out, 7500 means hyjacking with intention of using aircraft as a weapon against ground. Wat of lettin ATC know if u can talk on radio so fighters can b skwaked.
Since we have no interceptiors we have to call the RAF n process is much slower but basically same
Bird strike reportedly
The amount of times the dreaded flaps have caused me problems
176 max capacity excluding crew which there would be around 8
Only short haul 757s have capacity for up to 230 passengers
Hence the use of the word “almost”
92% of 200… I believe that qualifies as almost
200
In fairness, it had said over because that’s what we were told. It has been changed.
@Paul, shouldn’t a journalist do some fact checking rather than writing ‘what we were told’? I’d imagine that it’s one of the core principals of journalism.
There actually was 132 on board. The journal obviously hasn’t a clue
I’m on this plane. No updates being given and they won’t allow us off.
Any updates Ash?
Is there a Tanya Gorey on your plane?
Tell her to stop using her phone on a plane.
Why is that a problem? Its been proven that they cause no problems on flights
No idea and we are stationary on the ground. So not an issue.
Lighten up Martin, if you see my comment above you’ll see Im not being serious…
No need to get into a flap.
According to http://www.flightradar24.com/flight/us723 this flight is now cancelled…
We were taken off the plane for an hour. Now we have just been out back on same plane.
According to http://www.flightradar24.com/flight/us723 this flight is now marked as: Delayed 19:53
are you paranoid or something sir????? you know that today many airlines even have wifi onboard!!!!!!! the use of phones on the planes is not a problem anymore…
I am not surprised that US Airways have issues, when i tried to fly with them on that flight it was cancelled at the last minute. When returning the plane i was on was something out of the 70′s. I was amazed that we made it back without the wings falling of. Don’t get me started on their ignorant staff, you would swear that you were inconveniencing them by getting on the flight. Avoid US Airways if possible, they are the worst airline in the world.
Why risk a greater risk to population by flying this back to dublin, if problems with flaps then chance its a hydraulic issue, would it not be safer to land in knock/Shannon if problem escalated and aircraft crashed then circling Dublin airport puts larger number of population on the ground at risk…. Just a random thought while reading this.
It actually circled up around the navan area so it’s grand, the nice people of Dublin were safe. It then approached Dublin from the Irish Sea so it really only flew over about 3/4 miles of populated land. Much safer and logistically makes sense to return to dub
US/AA have ground crew & mostly likely some technical crew in DUB so that explains it. Why land in Knock when you’ve nobody representing the airline there?
Had trouble with the flaps a year or so ago going from London to Toronto. Had to circle round Bristol Channel for two hours before returning to Heathrow
Not surprised, I was on that flight a while back and couldn’t get over how old the plane was, easily 30 years old I’d say.
Sudo cream is good for sticky flaps.
Sure you’d have God on your side in Knock
Why did they dispatch a phone tender?
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