Originally Posted by
pitz
Okay, just doing some more digging on the 10-September AC incident that resulted in a diversion to FAI.
Flightaware says that AC7058 , a 762, arrived from YVR.
AC 2065, a 762, left for YVR later.
There's no record of any aircraft departing for Seoul from Fairbanks this week. And the only AC operations that show up in Flightaware are 762-based.
So something is wrong with that news article.
Well... I've seen on numerous occasions, AC swapping a 321 for a scheduled 319, when there was a significant tour group aboard.
But doing that isn't too difficult. Adding extra flights, or changing the crew levels in a significant way takes a lot more planning..
Here is more info on this flight:
An Air Canada Boeing 777-300, registration C-FIUL performing flight AC65 from Toronto,ON (Canada) to Seoul (South Korea) with 187 people on board, was at 84N/140W over the Arctic Ocean, when the crew advised, that they had a mechanical problem and needed to divert to Fairbanks,AK (USA). The airplane landed safely in Fairbanks 2 hours and 43 minutes later with emergency services standing by for the landing.
The passengers were brought from Fairbanks to Vancouver,BC (Canada) by an Air Canada Boing 767-200, registration C-FVNM, which was ferried from Vancouver to Fairbanks as flight AC7058 and returned to Vancouver with passengers as flight AC2065. One part of the passengers got booked onto flight AC63 Vancouver to Seoul, others onto Singapore Airlines flight 17.
Air Canada dispatched another Boeing 777-300, registration C-FRAM, directly to Seoul as a replacement for the return flight AC66, which departed Seoul with a delay of 11 hours and reached Toronto with a delay of 10 hours.
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/A...418Z/CYYZ/RKSI
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/A...040Z/CYVR/PAFA
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/A...617Z/PAFA/CYVR