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  • Ban all food items, near total disaster!!!!!!!!

    It seems that Swiss Cheese is not the only type of food to affect aviation safety.

    Originally posted by The media
    Steamy-Vegetable Alarm Forces Air France Jumbo Emergency Landing
    By Andrea Rothman Dec 19, 2014 9:47 AM CT

    An Air France (AF) jumbo jet flying from the Caribbean to Paris with crates of peppers in the cargo hold was forced to make an emergency landing in Ireland after condensation from the vegetables set off a fire alarm.

    Flight AF733 carrying 142 passengers was headed from Santa Domingo in the Dominican Republic to the French capital on Dec. 13 when pilots were alerted by the alarm and decided to divert the Boeing Co. (BA) 747-400 to Shannon airport in Ireland, the airline said in a statement today. Passengers were shifted to a smaller Airbus Group NV (AIR) A320 to continue their journey.

    “Have you ever put your vegetables in the refrigerator in a plastic bag, with no air whatsoever, and seen how they sweat?” said Paul Hayes, a safety expert at Ascend Ltd., a London-based consultancy that gathers data on accidents.

    Air France said the vegetable mishap caused a seven-hour delay to the flight, almost the duration of the normal service.

    To contact the reporter on this story: Andrea Rothman in Toulouse at [email protected]

    To contact the editors responsible for this story: Benedikt Kammel at [email protected] Christopher Jasper
    Last edited by brianw999; 2014-12-19, 20:38.
    Les règles de l'aviation de base découragent de longues périodes de dur tirer vers le haut.

  • #2
    Motherf***ing peppers on a motherf***ing plane...
    Be alert! America needs more lerts.

    Eric Law

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    • #3
      The TOTAL AIR DISASTER here is that they had a 747-400 with 142 pax that would have fit in a 737.

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      • #4
        And another total air disaster is that it took 70 minutes for the plane to land after declaring the emergency, even when the pilots were concerned enough that they "instructed emergency services to not open the forward cargo door before all passengers had left the aircraft".

        Not that they had many (or any) closer options though.

        Thanks god it was not a real fire, which tend to lead to a crash if not dealt with in some 15 minutes.

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        • #5
          Originally posted by Gabriel View Post
          And another total air disaster is that it took 70 minutes for the plane to land after declaring the emergency, even when the pilots were concerned enough that they "instructed emergency services to not open the forward cargo door before all passengers had left the aircraft".

          Not that they had many (or any) closer options though.

          Thanks god it was not a real fire, which tend to lead to a crash if not dealt with in some 15 minutes.


          Right out of the 747 FOM. Halon in released at intervals into the lower lobe cargo holds when discharged.

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          • #6
            Fortunately, it was a Boeing with a traditional control system.

            Had this been an Air Bus, the steam would probably have switched the control system to Piper-Cub mode ("Alternate Law" for those infatuated with buzz words) and the pilots pulled up into another 30,000 ft stall.
            Les règles de l'aviation de base découragent de longues périodes de dur tirer vers le haut.

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