No, we can land at MTOW if circumstances require. However, we will always jettison fuel and get below MLW unless a greater emergency exists (e.g. fire, double hydraulic failure, passenger sickness).
Then why do you jettison fuel in these cases? Just in order to avoid costly maintenance/repair action? I am astounded this is still allowed, in our eco-manic society nowadays…
If nothing else you can run the risk of a brake fire landing heavily loaded I would expect.
What a day!
Was it a 777 or a 747?
Then why do you jettison fuel in these cases? Just in order to avoid costly maintenance/repair action?
No maintenance action was necessary. There might have been if I’d run off the end, though.
Was it a 777 or a 747?
A340.
Interesting, thanks for sharing. How did the Chinese cooperate via ATC?
Interesting, thanks for sharing. How did the Chinese cooperate via ATC?
They were fine but their script has a limited number of phrases, so once you depart from the normal airway-type language it takes a few goes to get the message across.
The main two frustrations were having to declare a Mayday so I could dump fuel without permission and the fact that no-one met us at the stand once we’d landed, despite us asking for medical, steps and fire vehicles.
Thread drift nerding: A340 – may favorite airliner! Spent many hours flying on them both with Lufthansa and Virgin between LAX and Europe as a passenger. Such a beauty the 500/600 model with the big nacelles. Now that they stopped making them, I will miss them when they go away.
More nerding……if it was an A340-200 wouldn’t top of climb be half way home?
More nerding……if it was an A340-200 wouldn’t top of climb be half way home?
Ha ha! A340-600 – big engines!
An A340-200 MTOW is something like 260 tonnes.
