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Delta Airlines plane skids off JFK runway
A Delta Airlines plane skidded off an icy runway and into the snow at JFK Airport on Sunday morning, authorities said, no injuries were reported. (www.nydailynews.com) Plus d'info...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
It's that time of year to slide off runways and taxiways. Again, it's a common occurance- a non event. Runways and Taxiways are always a concern whether they are prepared or not but give Delta a break. They were landing on ice topped with snow and the temp was unbelievably low. "Polar Vortex". I can remember in KMSP...it was so fricking cold we couldn't even start the bird up! In that kind of extreme weather it's amazing there aren't more incidents.
Talking about cold... I had a mechanics at KFAR, KBIS, and KMOT with Heater Carts similar to Herman Nelson Heaters just to heat the A/C battery just to have enough battery power to turn the APU Starter... (Herman Nelson Heater reference "http://www.hermannelson.com/Categories.aspx?cgrp=1" for those not familiar with them... When the high is 40 below F... Things get a bit sluggish...
Sparkie... sluggie seems pretty mild. We and several others were in the same boat. Only happened once, in my career. We literally were in the "frozen mode"...no way out, no way coming to life any time soon! "Canceled"!!!!
Have had a few of those... I know what you are talking about... Look at an old TV Program Buffalo Airways, and Ice Pilots which is the same program renamed. They were not faking it... That is the real thing.
Look folks lets get something straight here, THIS IS NOT A DELTA AIRLINES JET, THESE WERE NOT DELTA AIRLINES PILOTS!!!!!!!. This was a Rat Jet (RJ) operated by and flown by subcontractors!!! NOT DAL people! I understand that the NY Daily News needs to get their shit strait too.
DAL may have had a few slide offs this year, contrast that with the incredible number of flights Delta flys every single day. How does your company stack up? Additionally DAL cancelled only about 2% of flights during the cold snap of the century last week…How did your favorite airline stack up? DAL seems to have made the transition to FAR 117 fairly smoothly too…How did yours do? Before we all go pointing fingers at each other maybe we need to make sure our own reflections are distorted as well.
DAL may have had a few slide offs this year, contrast that with the incredible number of flights Delta flys every single day. How does your company stack up? Additionally DAL cancelled only about 2% of flights during the cold snap of the century last week…How did your favorite airline stack up? DAL seems to have made the transition to FAR 117 fairly smoothly too…How did yours do? Before we all go pointing fingers at each other maybe we need to make sure our own reflections are distorted as well.
Lots of airlines had issues with the cold, ice, snow and freezing rain of the last few weeks, that were of record setting weather events.
JetBlue has had quite some trouble with the new pilot rest rules. I can't imagine those summer thunderstorm delays will be any more kind to them. They're based out of busy JFK. With their stratospheric growth over the last decade, they're spread thin in staffing. The new rest rules make it even harder on them. Tbey'll need to staff up, just for wx delays.
They may have to schedule crews for more more days a month with shorter scheduled work days, to minimize the chance that individual crews go past their new maximum daily work hours.
And they'll need to increase their reserve crews scheduled, particularly on wx days.
JetBlue has had quite some trouble with the new pilot rest rules. I can't imagine those summer thunderstorm delays will be any more kind to them. They're based out of busy JFK. With their stratospheric growth over the last decade, they're spread thin in staffing. The new rest rules make it even harder on them. Tbey'll need to staff up, just for wx delays.
They may have to schedule crews for more more days a month with shorter scheduled work days, to minimize the chance that individual crews go past their new maximum daily work hours.
And they'll need to increase their reserve crews scheduled, particularly on wx days.