1/15/2008 UA 901 FRA-SFO diverted to OAK [Updated 2010 News Reports]
Jan 17, 2008, 5:13 am
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now i know the runway is plenty long enough but that must have been a trip (pun intended) either to see, or have been, on that sucker coming thru the mountains.
Jan 17, 2008, 7:54 am
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http://flightaware.com/live/flight/U...811Z/PHNL/KRNO
Also 892 from ICN on the 15th diverted to LAX:
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/U...616Z/RKSI/KLAX
Mar 26, 2008, 1:47 pm
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The facts
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Mar 26, 2008, 1:53 pm
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Mar 26, 2008, 3:39 pm
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...this could get interesting...
Mar 26, 2008, 4:02 pm
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First off, I doubt we will ever hear back from "The Pilot flying" on this one, but I'd really like to know what happened.
I was on UA852 from NRT-SFO on 1/25 and we also had a diversion and ground stop at OAK. This was necessary because the plane needed fuel after circling over the Pacific for an hour waiting to land. However, after a quick stop I got to take the super quick OAK-SFO flight which is a really neat flying only 11 miles in a 777.
I was on UA852 from NRT-SFO on 1/25 and we also had a diversion and ground stop at OAK. This was necessary because the plane needed fuel after circling over the Pacific for an hour waiting to land. However, after a quick stop I got to take the super quick OAK-SFO flight which is a really neat flying only 11 miles in a 777.
May 13, 2010, 11:26 pm
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Finally, more than two years after that cryptic message from The Pilot flying.
Wow!
Wow!
May 13, 2010, 11:42 pm
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May 14, 2010, 12:05 am
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Just saw the interview on KPIX (Ch. 5 SF) including a screen-shot of this FT post.
May 14, 2010, 12:11 am
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Is it just me or dose cbs5 hate united airlines not about this story but every story the show is only bad things about united.
May 14, 2010, 12:19 am
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Interesting to read another post last night from someone claiming that a CO pilot, experiencing a tailstrike taking off, turned in his wings... and today we have reports of this experience, reports coming out because one of the crew (Pilot or CoPilot, I'm not sure which) has stopped flying and has a lawsuit against Honeywell, manufacturer of the ILS system on the plane, because they caused him to suffer from post-traumatic-stress syndrome.
I'm going to have to ask my pilot friend about this one, since I'd think there would be systems on board that actually measure, rather than assume, present aircraft altitude. I can understand the lateral positioning error that supposedly happened on the second landing attempt, but it seems odd that an aircraft has no means of knowing the distance between itself and the ground. Which could be one more example of how little I know about aircraft.
Whatever, glad we have people and not robots in the cockpit. Great work by the cockpit crew. ^
In the big picture, there's lots of good news about UA. But locally? United has laid off and furloughed an awful lot of people 'round these parts, and for the local angle, that's a lot more important than stories about putting new seats in 777s.
I'm going to have to ask my pilot friend about this one, since I'd think there would be systems on board that actually measure, rather than assume, present aircraft altitude. I can understand the lateral positioning error that supposedly happened on the second landing attempt, but it seems odd that an aircraft has no means of knowing the distance between itself and the ground. Which could be one more example of how little I know about aircraft.
Whatever, glad we have people and not robots in the cockpit. Great work by the cockpit crew. ^
In the big picture, there's lots of good news about UA. But locally? United has laid off and furloughed an awful lot of people 'round these parts, and for the local angle, that's a lot more important than stories about putting new seats in 777s.
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May 14, 2010, 8:12 am
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This used to be a regular scheduled flight. I remember way back when there was some promotion that if you flew in a given year you'd get double miles or something the next year. The local news reported lots of people taking the OAK-SFO flight R/T to meet that requirement.
May 14, 2010, 10:51 am
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saw it as well (complete with the screen shot of Cap'n Adventure's post) and very very scary. wondering if this was "brushed under the rug" by ua and/or honeywell thinking nothing would come of it until the pilot took legal action