Live Video: Air Canada flight to make emergency landing in Madrid airport, currently circling to burn fuel.
Update: On the ground safely, good job by all.
Current status can be followed at Flightradar24.
Flight #AC837 has been holding for more than 3 hours in order to reduce landing weight.
According to @ENAIRE to aircraft plan to land at Madrid Barajas Airport around 19:30 local timehttps://t.co/d1lAaHTqNz pic.twitter.com/0j0rDaiP9o
— Flightradar24 (@flightradar24) February 3, 2020
12:06 my eastern std, I may have just caught the thing landing.
WHEW.
flying home T.O. from Newark, over Rochester, mid 80s, the plane tilts 90 degrees to the right for about 3 or 4 seconds
and corrects. I think they fly thru a factory chimney exhaust.
WHEW.
Madrid looks polluted.
They’re still in the air, estimated landing in an hour.
What is this, about the 4th time such a wheel well incident occurred in the past month or so? Maybe AC security might want to consider a potential saboteur in their maintenance department. I mean, what are the odds?
American Airlines had a Muslim mechanic arrested for that recently. Odds are good
Typically these planes land safely. A major airport has experience with these incidents. Hopefully it ends well.
Why does this matter? Is mainstream news coverage not enough for those who care? I thought that this was a political blog.
This blog has all kinds of things. From cute dog photos on up
Sham: Last time I looked this was still Kate’s blog. She can call it any damn thing she wants and you can scroll past any damn post you don’t like.
But, let me guess: you’re a Westerner (a capitalized one). Why? A US visitor wouldn’t be so ungracious and we here in E.Ont. are eternally grateful to Kate for allowing us into her world.
If you don’t like the content here, the world is your oyster.
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Obviously the result of global warming. Has Justin blamed Harper yet?
Why are those deplorables even allowed to use air travel? Their carbon footprints are huge, those NAZIS. How dare they!
Absolutely, Kevin – I salute you. Air travel for the unwashed must be severely curtailed or banned entirely – who do they think they are?! Jets emit so much carbon that the only sensible way to keep it all from being eeevil greenhouse gas, is to stop the proles from flying, once and for all! From now on, air travel will only be available for climate warriors and their wealthy backers, to fly to international climate conferences. This may seem harsh, but we’ve got to SAAAAAVE THE EARTH!!!
And everybody else? – Saint Greta has shown you the way; go find somebody with a sailboat.
Wouldn’t it be funny if someone put forward a private member’s bill, to close all airports in Canada because “CLIMATE EMERGENCY!”?
Some enterprising MP should walk through the house and shout “how dare you!” at every member who is not wearing locally sourced sack cloth, or a locally sourced hair shirt…
And let’s not forget the ashes, as in Sack Cloth and Ashes.
Most politicians make ashes of themselves any time they say something.
Talking of airplanes, I am amused today to hear government wheel spokes speak of sending the plane to China to bring back all the Canadians who want to. No one in the press asked whether the two men who probably most want to be rescued from China will be on board. You know, the, er, hostages.