What would you do?

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A friend of mine who flys for work multiple times a week just got this announcement when the cabin door closed.

I would be asking off the plane. Sounds like this captain needs some down time.
 

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Hmmm. I'd probably fly but in the back of my head be a little wtf.
I assume they are not going to fly if the issue could prove to be catastrophic
 
Forget that put me on the next flight. Can you imagine if something happened on that flight after they knew there was a potential issue.
 
I would have to know specifically what the pilot said. I highly doubt he said 'There's something wrong with the plane'.... But going around weather is pretty normal.
 
MotoFlier said:
Forget that put me on the next flight. Can you imagine if something happened on that flight after they knew there was a potential issue.
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You think an airliner is 100% for every flight?
 
Not enough information to make any sort of judgement on the pilots.

Was this an airline flight? Was the issue apparent before the flight took off?

Not enough information!
 
Didn't see anything on the news. Guess they must've made it. Agree about not enough information to comment.
 
Not a totally uncommon thing......most likely a pack inop..........with only one pack they would be altitude limited........hence slower and have to work a little harder to get around the weather. Used to deal with this in ops on the A320 once in a while........will be fixed in ATL............no biggie.........
 
I once spent over 2 hours in a Delta 1011 (ATL) so they could fix a baggage door issue. When we landed in NY, we sat there for over 3 hours for them to "un"-fix the issue.

I've always wondered how many rolls of duct tape, bailing wire, and twine they used for that trip. Plus, if it was a "baggage door issue," why couldn't we deplane when we landed?
 
I'd have asked for a drink. Actually I'd have had my noise canceling headsets on and wouldn't have heard the announcement. I still would have asked for a drink, though.
 
FlyingIsGood said:
I once spent over 2 hours in a Delta 1011 (ATL) so they could fix a baggage door issue. When we landed in NY, we sat there for over 3 hours for them to "un"-fix the issue.

I've always wondered how many rolls of duct tape, bailing wire, and twine they used for that trip. Plus, if it was a "baggage door issue," why couldn't we deplane when we landed?
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If it was a baggage door you would be able to deplane, clearly it was one of the main cabin doors........we could operate normally even if the electric power went out on the baggage doors........had a manual pump backup......so that wasn't it.........and the truck mounted airstairs must have been OTS as well........strange incident for sure..........
 
Not enough information,to make a reasonable decision.
 
The MEL dictates what they can fly with that's broken. I'd bet you that at any given time, something is broken on 99% of airplanes.

That weather is absolutely nothing I'd worry about. Easy to fly around.

His announcement seems odd. I would've asked the flight attendant for a complimentary gin and tonic. Just because. :)

Otherwise, not enough to comment.
 
Ted DuPuis said:
The MEL dictates what they can fly with that's broken. I'd bet you that at any given time, something is broken on 99% of airplanes.
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^ This ^

Zero chance a 121 operator flies a plane filled with passengers with an issue not covered by ops spec.
 
I was on a flight last week and the pilot announced "Folks our auxiliary power unit is inop so we are starting one engine here at the gate, and will start the other once we begin our taxi, nothing to worry about".

A couple of folks got into a panic. In the end the pilot and maintenance knows that airframe better than I do. If they both are signing off on it, sometimes you have to trust they know their job
 
Wanted to give a side note: I would have felt much more uncomfortable if captain had announced the wifi/free television was down
 
gitmo234 said:
Wanted to give a side note: I would have felt much more uncomfortable if captain had announced the wifi/free television was down
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Or the coffee maker. That one really did pizz me off.....especially when they waited until after the aircraft was in the air to tell us that was the reason for the maintenance delay:mad2:

IF I ever start my own airline, the coffee maker is going to be a required item on the MEL.
 
Vf6cruiser said:
If it was a baggage door you would be able to deplane, clearly it was one of the main cabin doors........we could operate normally even if the electric power went out on the baggage doors........had a manual pump backup......so that wasn't it.........and the truck mounted airstairs must have been OTS as well........strange incident for sure..........
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The most common problem with narrow body baggage doors I ever saw on the ramp was the jerkoffs in the previous city not connecting the baggage nets that protect the door from bags moving around and getting up against them. Since they open inward, if a pile of bags got in the way, it'd take two guys pushing on the damned thing to open the door and simultaneously shove the bags out of the way.

One time on a Long Beach Death Tube we had the bags so jammed by the previous city that we called the maintenance on call guy over for ideas so we didn't actually break the door. His suggestion: Push harder. We can fix it. If we have to break it the last baggage crew will get written up.

With one guy pushing with his legs while seated on the belt loader and two more pushing from the ground, a bag finally "jumped" over another after we smashed the hell out of it, and the door opened enough to reach in there and kinda move two other bags around so we could push again and they'd go up instead of sideways into the pile.

That turn took quite a delay and anyone looking at us out the windows that day could tell we were smashing luggage. Frigging MD-80... Absolutely hated loading those things.
 
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