Posted on 03/09/2014 8:40:40 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
HONOLULU, HI -- A Japan Airlines flight bound for San Francisco carrying more than 170 people made an emergency landing at the Honolulu International Airport.
The airport manager's office says that the jetliner landed without incident around 1 p.m. Saturday.
Airlines spokesman Yang Jian says the Boeing 787 had cockpit indicators showing engine trouble and made the emergency landing in Honolulu.
Jian says none of the 160 passengers and 11 crew members was injured.
He says that the cockpit indicators showed that oil pressure was down with an engine.
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Re-check the passenger’s passports. Are any stolen?
I fly out of Anchorage when its snowing, windy or even fog, they have awesome handling capabilities.
Gotta remember its also a cargo hub, they can handle any aircraft on this planet, any time of the year.
And it was a brilliant sunshine day yesterday, just around freezing.
If I’m on a plane that needs to make an emergency landing, I could do a lot worse than landing in Honolulu. Hopefully the passengers were able to make a weekend out of it.
Which do you prefer, snow or beaches?
I guess I prefer landing.
Actually twin engine jetliners fly under etops rules (extended twin engine operations) and fly routes that keep them within 120, 180 or 240 minutes of an airport that can support their type. Unrestricted great circle routing is only used by 3 or more engined airliners.
Yes, you are more right than I. But Tokyo to San Francisco is still hundreds of miles off the Aleutians (unlike Washington to Tokyo).
If you’re just cargo (passenger) Anchorage in March tends to be dreary. I love the Captain Cook Hotel, though.
The other odd thing is Hawaii wasn’t much shorter than going all the way to SFO.
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