BA flies 747 on 3 engines LAX-UK - New EU comp rules

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James Robinson wrote:
For the first six hours they were flying over land with suitable runways
dotted every few miles. Once beyond Newfoundland, they were never more
than 60 minutes from a suitable landing place.

Great circle from LAX to LHR is actually far to the north of that.

Goes over roughly Winnipeg and then over Hudson Bay, Hudson Straight
between Québec and Baffin Island (choice of Iqaluit or Kuujuak
airports), then north to southern tip of Greenland and on to Iraland
(passing not that far from Iceland).

In practice, wind patterns and more importantly trafdfic across the
atrlantic would dictate varous lanes which may not represent the great
circle perfectly.

And there are times where wind patterns would have the flight stay south
over the USA to the atlantic and head north over the busy trans atlantic
routes from there.

We don't know what route that particular plane took, and whether it
deviated from its originally planned route due to the engine failure.
Failure to rise to full altitude may have required differnt route than
originall planned. On the other hand, wouldn't 29k feet be a very seldom
used altitude and thus given the plane more freedom on what route to
take ?


All true. Someone that actually knows what he's talking about!


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James Robinson wrote:
For the first six hours they were flying over land with suitable runways
dotted every few miles. Once beyond Newfoundland, they were never more
than 60 minutes from a suitable landing place.

Great circle from LAX to LHR is actually far to the north of that.

Goes over roughly Winnipeg and then over Hudson Bay, Hudson Straight
between Québec and Baffin Island (choice of Iqaluit or Kuujuak
airports), then north to southern tip of Greenland and on to Iraland
(passing not that far from Iceland).

In practice, wind patterns and more importantly trafdfic across the
atrlantic would dictate varous lanes which may not represent the great
circle perfectly.

And there are times where wind patterns would have the flight stay south
over the USA to the atlantic and head north over the busy trans atlantic
routes from there.

We don't know what route that particular plane took, and whether it
deviated from its originally planned route due to the engine failure.
Failure to rise to full altitude may have required differnt route than
originall planned. On the other hand, wouldn't 29k feet be a very seldom
used altitude and thus given the plane more freedom on what route to
take ?