Abnormalities in BRU-ANR-CRL-LGG-OST in 2014

[Passenger]

On Saturday evening, a Türkish Airlines flight from Brussels to Istanbul diverted to Sofia. Het Laatste Nieuws reports that there was a laptop found onboard, lost by no one onboard. Hence a deviation to Sofia, where the police reduced the laptop to a million pieces.

NL: http://www.hln.be/hln/nl/960/Buitenland ... even.dhtml

FR: http://www.lalibre.be/actu/belgique/un- ... 04f7dd6d57

[sn26567]

An agitated passenger disrupted a Brussels Airlines flight from Oslo to Brussels Monday afternoon shortly before landing at Zaventem. The man began to pray Allah and threatened to blow up the aircraft. The man joined his hands and began to pray, claiming he had explosives able to blow up the plane. The flight attendants and two doctors tried to calm him down and he was immediately arrested by federal police on his arrival at Brussels airport. The disruptive passenger however was quickly released because it turned out he was suffering from psychological problems.

[Passenger]

From "The Times of India":

"...A Jet Airways aircraft winging its way from Mumbai to Brussels last Friday suddenly dropped 5,000 feet in the Ankara airspace over Turkey. The commander of the Boeing 777 aircraft was taking 'controlled rest', which means a nap as per rules. The aviation regulator is now probing if the co-pilot too had dozed off..."

More details:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/indi ... 211580.cms

[sn26567]

The (female) co-pilot has claimed she was busy on her tablet and did not notice that the aircraft had lost altitude. A call from an alarmed Ankara ATC is what jolted the pilots into action.

http://ibnlive.in.com/news/mumbaibrusse ... ource=t.co

[convair]

I bet some pax will follow the flight data a bit more closely on their monitors now.

[convair]

Joking aside, isn't "George" supposed to keep the level when "he" is in charge?

[sn26567]

The two Jet Airways pilots have been suspended after their uncontrolled descent.

It seems to me that only the co-pilot should have been suspended for playing with her tablet instead of controlling the flight, whilst the pilot was resting according to the rules.

[woutertheboy]

SN203 BRU-DKR Cancelled
SN243 BRU-ROB Cancelled

Were this the flights that were moved due to Ebola? Quite strange that they still appear on the biac website..

[SFM]

SN203 BRU-DKR Cancelled
SN243 BRU-ROB Cancelled

Were this the flights that were moved due to Ebola? Quite strange that they still appear on the biac website..

SN243 is not cancelled, but replaced by SN1243 (with additional stop in DKR for crew change)

SN203 is cancelled because SFU is AOG in NBO.

[rwandan-flyer]

A SN flight to Kigali canceled yesterday, any infos ? Thanks

[SFM]

A SN flight to Kigali canceled yesterday, any infos ? Thanks

Do you mean SN465 yesterday? It wasn't cancelled, but replaced by SN1465 which made an additional stop in NBO to help out OO-SFU (so the full itinerary was BRU-NBO-KGL-EBB-BRU)

Btw:

SN203 is cancelled because SFU is AOG in NBO.

This flight wasn't cancelled either, but postponed 24 hours and operated by EuroAtlantic B767 (CS-TRN).

Source: Flightradar24

[airazurxtror]

http://www.air-journal.fr/2014-08-20-br ... 12865.html

Extract :

Le 16 août dernier, un avion de la compagnie belge Brussels Airlines au décollage de Bastia à destination de Bruxelles, a laissé la moitié des bagages sur le tarmac.
La raison : l’avion étant trop lourd à cause d’une surcharge de carburant, sur-ravitaillé avec 1000 litres en trop, l’équipage a pris alors la décision d’abandonner les bagages d’une centaine de passagers.
«Est-il concevable qu’en 2014, un avion affrété par une compagnie qui se prétend sérieuse et fiable, ne puisse transporter l’ensemble de ses passagers, l’ensemble des bagages de ceux-ci et un réservoir plein?», dénonce dans les colonnes de Sudinfo.be la députée wallonne Christine Defraigne, qui se trouvait à bord du vol de Brussels Airlines. «Je peux vous dire que les gens étaient furieux», raconte-t-elle. «Je privilégie Brussels Airlines pour mes déplacements en avion, car je veux être positive vis-à-vis d’une société qui génère des emplois en Belgique. Mais là, je dois bien avouer qu’il y a un truc qui n’allait pas du tout. N’y avait-il pas d’autre solution que de laisser la moitié des bagages sur le tarmac, de façon aléatoire?
Pour la compagnie aérienne, le pilote a pris la bonne décision, entre les bagages et la sécurité des passagers. La surcharge de carburant est de la responsabilité de la société chargée de faire le plein des appareils à l’aéroport de Bastia.



On August 16, an aircraft of the Belgian airline Brussels Airlines took off from Bastia to Brussels, leaving half the luggage on the tarmac.
The reason: the plane was too heavy because of a fuel surcharge of 1,000 liters; the crew then took the decision to abandon the baggage of one hundred passengers.

For the airline, the pilot made ​​the right decision. The fuel surcharge is the responsibility of the company in charge of refueling aircraft at the airport of Bastia.

[sn26567]

Incident: Brussels A319 at Brussels on Aug 28th 2014, could not fully retract gear

A Brussels Airlines Airbus A319-100, registration OO-SSC performing flight SN-2719 from Brussels (Belgium) to Geneva (Switzerland) with 36 passengers and 5 crew, was climbing out of Brussels when the crew stopped the climb at FL140 reporting they could not fully retract the landing gear.

Full report from The Aviation Herald: http://avherald.com/h?article=4797ab13&opt=0

[HQ_BRU_Lover]

Incident: Brussels A319 at Brussels on Aug 28th 2014, could not fully retract gear

A Brussels Airlines Airbus A319-100, registration OO-SSC performing flight SN-2719 from Brussels (Belgium) to Geneva (Switzerland) with 36 passengers and 5 crew, was climbing out of Brussels when the crew stopped the climb at FL140 reporting they could not fully retract the landing gear.

Full report from The Aviation Herald: http://avherald.com/h?article=4797ab13&opt=0

[Charlie Roy]

flight SN-2719 from Brussels (Belgium) to Geneva (Switzerland) with 36 passengers and 5 crew

25% load factor
Is that normal for this route in August?

[Airbus330lover]

Not so abnormal : holidays on a business route.
Normally full on GVA-BRU leg

[sn26567]

25% load factor
Is that normal for this route in August?

The return leg might have been 100% full. Don't judge a flight on a partial knowledge of its data.

[airbuske]

SN2720 GVA - BRU was indeed full!

[airazurxtror]

The Thomas Cook flight Palma-Liège of friday afternoon was delayed because of a breakdown and took off 10 hours late. Instead of going to Liège, it landed at Lille. The passengers finally reached Liège 13h30 late.

Explanations of Baptiste Van Outryve :
- the security is first in our préoccupations
- when an aircraft is late, he may lose its slot, that is to say its right to land - that is the reason for the Lille landing.
- the passengers had only the right to receive vouchers to be spend at the airport, and we gave them a sandwich, a drink and a dinner - they thus have nothing to complain about.

Typical Baptiste : the customer is always wrong ! We'll miss him ...

(Are slots so imperious at Liège airport ? And why then land at Lille and not nearer Liège, like Maastricht or even Brussels ?)

[tangolima]

(Are slots so imperious at Liège airport ? And why then land at Lille and not nearer Liège, like Maastricht or even Brussels ?)

Hello

MST is closed between 2200-0600LT.
But I don't know the time the A/C arrived in LIL since that isn't mentioned in your post.

Greetings,