Flight Irregularities

[marki]

Just now, any idea? what the issue might be?

 

[OATEK]

View attachment 308944Just now, any idea? what the issue might be?

Diverted to Istanbul, must have been burning off some fuel. Medical emergency?

 

[serfty]

Diverted to Istanbul, must have been burning off some fuel. Medical emergency?

 

[marki]

Diverted to Istanbul, must have been burning off some fuel. Medical emergency?

Most likely event but not the closest airfield to land at with the appropriate hospital?

 

[serfty]

Did QF2 just do a go around?



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[ayebee]

Most likely event but not the closest airfield to land at with the appropriate hospital?

whatever it was, by my rough calcs they were on the ground in IST for about 8hrs (04.50 to around 12.50)
Would be a long day.

 

[serfty]

Did QF2 just do a go around?

Apparently it did, reports of another aircraft on the runway as it approached

 

[jb747]

View attachment 308944Just now, any idea? what the issue might be?

Diverted to Istanbul, must have been burning off some fuel. Medical emergency?

Have a look at the altitude trace. His initial descent is to 12,000'. The rate is not quite an emergency descent, but quite rapid nevertheless. There are big mountains in that area, so 12,000 may be the safety height. He goes to 12,000' a long way before that would be on profile for a descent to Ankara. At the point he reaches 12k', profile would be more like FL300. So, the upshot of that is that it looks like a pressurisation issue, but not one in which they've lost it, but rather a pack issue, in which case the cabin slowly bleeds the pressure. What looks like a change of destination, and then the climb, would indicate that they recovered whatever they'd lost (or worked out how to use an alternate mode).

The holding pattern looks like a place holder. They've gone there whilst having a chat to the company and deciding what to do next. Returning to Frankfurt might have been a reasonably appealing option. So, where can they get some maintenance support, and where would be relatively easy to find another crew (or have a crew transported to).

Of course, this just conjecture.

Most likely event but not the closest airfield to land at with the appropriate hospital?

Closest airfield is what you may use for an aircraft emergency. That's not the case for a medical event, in which case it will need to be a main (destination level) airfield that has appropriate medical support. A medical event is a personal, not aircraft, emergency.

Apparently it did, reports of another aircraft on the runway as it approached

Not much of a go around, as it didn't get below about 1,700' on the approach. Presumably traffic, though Singapore ATC are pretty good at getting the spacing right. Generally though, you'd expect the go around to be much later, at about 200'. And being an armchair critic, his airspeed control in the go around is pretty cough.