New Delhi: An Air India flight approaching to land in Hong Kong recently had to declare May Day after hovering for a long time and unavailability of diversion airports — where it would have gone after waiting to land at the destination — due to bad weather. Then in the interest of flight safety, the crew of this Boeing 787 Dreamliner issued the stress call to finally get clearance to land in Hong Kong.
The scare happened on March 20 when AI 315 was operating from Osaka to Hong Kong with over 170 people on board, before flying back to India. “The aircraft had to hold for very long time before landing and hence due (to) critical fuel, the pilot declared May Day. It was no fault of AI,” said an airline spokesman.
Airline officials say the flight had been hovering, waiting for its turn to land at Hong Kong airport. “During this long wait, the aircraft hit diversion fuel. Hong Kong ATC told the flight that the diversion airports were unavailable due to bad weather. At that point in the interest of flight safety the crew declared May Day,” said an AI official.
Fuel uplift for a flight is decided by adding these factors: fuel required for going from origin to destination; hovering fuel at destination; fuel to go to a diversion airport in case the destination is not available for some reason like some aircraft getting stuck on its single runway and finally hovering fuel at alternate/diversion airport.
24/04/19 Saurabh Sinha/Times of India
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The scare happened on March 20 when AI 315 was operating from Osaka to Hong Kong with over 170 people on board, before flying back to India. “The aircraft had to hold for very long time before landing and hence due (to) critical fuel, the pilot declared May Day. It was no fault of AI,” said an airline spokesman.
Airline officials say the flight had been hovering, waiting for its turn to land at Hong Kong airport. “During this long wait, the aircraft hit diversion fuel. Hong Kong ATC told the flight that the diversion airports were unavailable due to bad weather. At that point in the interest of flight safety the crew declared May Day,” said an AI official.
Fuel uplift for a flight is decided by adding these factors: fuel required for going from origin to destination; hovering fuel at destination; fuel to go to a diversion airport in case the destination is not available for some reason like some aircraft getting stuck on its single runway and finally hovering fuel at alternate/diversion airport.
24/04/19 Saurabh Sinha/Times of India
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