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teddybAIR wrote:I saw it on short final for runway 20, not 25L or 25R...

Thanks for the update. So, a little crosswind then, but normally nothing out of the ordinary.

Strange story. Sounds like a pod strike and no autospoiler deployment thereafter resulting in limited brake effectiveness. Lack of spoilerdeployment can result in the aircraft 'bouncing' across the runway as witnessed by willyt. Asymmetric use of reverse may also cause the aircraft to 'swerve ...

Aren't they supposed to start MBA service as well, with a techstop somewhere in Egypt?

From what I can remember, TFL was also planning to use the 738 on that route.

Well, you know what O'Leary likes to say: "There's no such thing as bad publicity."

Anyway, still no news on the aircraft's status?

I do believe that some pax (if not many) were happy that their return flight was not with OO-TUC but with PH-MCG.

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Martinair is flying to VAR and CUN on a regular basis, so they have crew there. I don't know their overnight schedule however and I do not know Martinair's crew rest rules set ...

Any word yet whether the aircraft can/will be repaired or will be written off?

I was wrongly thinking that JAF would try to get the pax back home as soon as possible , even it that would mean a double Martinair crew.

And how were you planning and doing that and keep it legal? I've looked it up, but the absolute maximum allowable duty time (JAA, NOT company) is 19 hours with ...

Of course it could be repaired. BUT it woud be very expensive indeed and cargob indicated that the plan was to return this plane to the leasing company soon

AFAIK most leasing contracts state somewhere in the small print that the aircraft should be returned to the lessor in the same state it was ...

So after all, it seems that did not sent a Martinair 767 to Varadero/Cancun, but just waited till OO-TUC was fixed.

Odd. According to my info JAF502/PH-MCG arrived in BRU this morning at 0647lt with 213 pax on board



The whole wheel, brake and tire were u/s !! A team was sent and repaired it ...

PH-MCG/TUB 502 is about to depart VRA for CUN at this moment, but is not scheduled to return to BRU until tuesdaymorning at 0530lt. I would suspect that is because of legal crewrest requirements.