Originally Posted by Stranger
But surely it would take more than six minutes after arrival time especially for a 343 to get to that point. Yet their system shows arrival at HKG at 21:05, followed by departure at 21:11.
Someone believes in miracles?
It is a computer error likely caused by an aircraft repositioning on arrival. The messages are registered upon main cabin door opening/closing and park brake release/set.
The scenario that I suspect is:
The airplane arrived and parkbrake set. The main cabin door was opened (arrival message sent) briefly, but the ground crew noticed that the aircraft was too far forward or backward to allow the door to open safely. The door was closed, the park brake removed and this gave a departure message to be sent.