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Old Nov 17, 2023 | 1:40 am
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Originally Posted by TravellingChris
To answer my own question, I will nominate the Air France diversion of an A380 to Goose Bay in Newfoundland & Labrador in Canada--a massive aircraft at a small airport--due to a blown engine.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfo...-bay-1.4315132
IMO, Ascension (post #3) is far more unique than Goose Bay from a diversion standpoint, and will be difficult to top. Goose Bay was actually one of the designated diversion airports on 9/11/2001. Furthermore, it is occasionally used for refueling stops on Europe US flights. Finally, it has scheduled passenger passenger service to about a dozen destinations.

Ascension, by contrast, is a desolate island in the middle of the South Atlantic, and does not lie along one of the busiest flight paths in the world.
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