Posted on 03/28/2024 10:38:51 PM PDT by libh8er
Air France flight AF687 from Atlanta, USA to Paris CDG, France requested to return to the gate on Tuesday, March 19 2024.
The Boeing 777-200ER was about to depart from runway 27R when the crew had to reject the takeoff.
The aircraft (registration F-GSPA) was delivered in 1998.
Pilots contacted the tower about an open door alarm and requested to return to the gate.
About one hour later, the pilots asked for a shortcut because connecting pax were going to be late.
Thanks to that, the flight AF687 landed only 30 minutes late in Paris.
1998
A lot can be blamed on Boeing but, no one can blame this one on Boeing.
If they’d fire more middle aged honky men and replaced them with more diverse people this wouldn’t be happening!
Diversity is our greatest strength, that’s what the poster in the Student Activity Center said, and who can argue with that?
They asked for a “shortcut”?
How does that work? Doesn’t transoceanic follow a great circle route? How can you get shorter than that?
Internal cabin pressure presses the doors shut. They can’t blow out like the “door plug” on the Alaska Airlines aircraft.
Alarm! The pilot’s fly is open!
Someone’s def not going to say it-
For some odd reason-
hundreds of A330’s are being grounded this year some for years over engine issues.
yet this has not been chronicled one time on this site.
So odd.
bttt
It speaks volumes about the state of the aircraft industry in 1998 that the French national airline didn’t buy domestically-made aircraft exclusively.
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