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Air Traffic Monitoring => Aviation Audio Clips => Topic started by: Danscobou on February 24, 2015, 12:19:54 AM

Title: Delta 1459 Broken Windshield
Post by: Danscobou on February 24, 2015, 12:19:54 AM

Delta 1459 makes emergency landing into RIC after a broken captain's windshield.

Title: Re: Delta 1459 Broken Windshield
Post by: svoynick on February 24, 2015, 04:59:18 AM

Hmmm - for souls, he reported "119 plus crew of 4, so it's 123, and uh, 119 total..."

Title: Re: Delta 1459 Broken Windshield
Post by: frcabot on February 24, 2015, 11:23:46 PM

Maybe if the FAA weren't so hard up about going after GA pilots and investigating every emergency declaration with a view towards license suspension, GA pilots would be less reluctant about declaring.

I declared a pan pan once for a stuck gear (turns out the emergency gear lever got displaced preventing the gear from retracting), got a call from the fsdo the following day wanting to check my maintenance records.

Title: Re: Delta 1459 Broken Windshield
Post by: neurotech on March 01, 2015, 05:09:07 PM

Quote from: swa4678 on February 24, 2015, 12:44:52 PM

Quote from: svoynick on February 24, 2015, 04:59:18 AM

Hmmm - for souls, he reported "119 plus crew of 4, so it's 123, and uh, 119 total..."

Based on some verbiage in a signed employment contract, perhaps the insurance company(ies) only care about 119 of the souls on board? :evil:

I think it was a minor misreading. The aircraft had 113 Pax + 5 crew (ref: avherald). I think he thought the 119 was not including passengers and incorrectly added, then corrected himself.