Hi.
Long time lurker, first time poster.
I recognize I have precious little information in this post. Id still like to ask out of curiosity.
On Dec 24, our Air Canada flight from SFO - YYZ was delayed. We were told the inbound plane from YYZ was circling the airport because of runway congestion. Then, when it landed, there was a mechanical problem. Those two delays of ~2 total hours put the pilots on the return flight over their FAA limit for flying (fatigue maybe? paraphrasing). So the flight was cancelled. Merry Christmas. The new flight was 9AM on Dec 25.
The next day, after boarding, the pilot told us over the intercom that there was a issue with the "flight controls" the previous delay, and they canceled the flight for safety reasons. Fair enough. They didn't say if this was the same plane. That did contradict what were were told the previous day.
The rescheduled flight on Dec 25 - AC 2138 - made good time to YYZ. However we circled the YYZ for quite some time - perhaps 30+ minutes. Then the pilots paged the lead flight attendant to the flight deck. They then made an announcement that there was a problem with one of the 'flight components', and they had to perform an abnormal landing, although it was a common maneuver that they practiced all the time. They said to not be alarmed at the firetrucks and emergency vehicles that would surround the plane on landing. Of course everyone was alarmed due to the stress of a missed Christmas and then this. The flight was full of children
The landing was stressful, fairly bumpy, but nothing close to dangerous. . It did feel like there was significant lateral movement on landing - a feeling of sliding though - that caused some screams (likely in part because of stress). Once stopped the pilot immediately, and in an authoritative voice announced: "stay seated. do not remove your seat-belts."
As promised, multiple fire trucks and emergency vehicles surrounded the plane and did spot checks. After 20 minutes, we taxied to the runway and saw more fire personal. We left the plane normally.
All that gets me to two questions:
1) From my extremely limited, layperson, description, any wild theories on what happened? That seems to be what this site is all about, after-all
2) The more reasonable questions is: Is Air Canada required to publicly report issues like this, and if so how can I find out details. Google gave nothing. The similarities between the inbound and outbound flights has me curious.
Thanks
Long time lurker, first time poster.
I recognize I have precious little information in this post. Id still like to ask out of curiosity.
On Dec 24, our Air Canada flight from SFO - YYZ was delayed. We were told the inbound plane from YYZ was circling the airport because of runway congestion. Then, when it landed, there was a mechanical problem. Those two delays of ~2 total hours put the pilots on the return flight over their FAA limit for flying (fatigue maybe? paraphrasing). So the flight was cancelled. Merry Christmas. The new flight was 9AM on Dec 25.
The next day, after boarding, the pilot told us over the intercom that there was a issue with the "flight controls" the previous delay, and they canceled the flight for safety reasons. Fair enough. They didn't say if this was the same plane. That did contradict what were were told the previous day.
The rescheduled flight on Dec 25 - AC 2138 - made good time to YYZ. However we circled the YYZ for quite some time - perhaps 30+ minutes. Then the pilots paged the lead flight attendant to the flight deck. They then made an announcement that there was a problem with one of the 'flight components', and they had to perform an abnormal landing, although it was a common maneuver that they practiced all the time. They said to not be alarmed at the firetrucks and emergency vehicles that would surround the plane on landing. Of course everyone was alarmed due to the stress of a missed Christmas and then this. The flight was full of children
The landing was stressful, fairly bumpy, but nothing close to dangerous. . It did feel like there was significant lateral movement on landing - a feeling of sliding though - that caused some screams (likely in part because of stress). Once stopped the pilot immediately, and in an authoritative voice announced: "stay seated. do not remove your seat-belts."
As promised, multiple fire trucks and emergency vehicles surrounded the plane and did spot checks. After 20 minutes, we taxied to the runway and saw more fire personal. We left the plane normally.
All that gets me to two questions:
1) From my extremely limited, layperson, description, any wild theories on what happened? That seems to be what this site is all about, after-all
2) The more reasonable questions is: Is Air Canada required to publicly report issues like this, and if so how can I find out details. Google gave nothing. The similarities between the inbound and outbound flights has me curious.
Thanks
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