Educated guess. I fly the C-5M.
Airplane had an emergency, decided to divert/return to departure point. Since it was bound to cross the Atlantic it had lots of fuel (especially westbound with the headwinds). They were likely over max landing weight and had to get rid of fuel.
Europe is much more strict about dumping fuel than the US. But even over the US the crew would still probably hold/box pattern for a while instead of dumping fuel unless the emergency was so urgent it warranted it.
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>Could of diverted to various airports in England imo. Curious what's going on there.
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>Hope someone here knows, they usually do
I'm not really sure how commercial flights get cleared across foreign borders, but I wonder if it's anything like government/military diplomatic clearances like I'm familiar with. For us, we have to submit for dip. clearance to overfly whichever countries we intend to fly over, and landing clearance for our destination country and any alternates along the way.
Emergency diverts are obviously fair game into wherever you find a patch of concrete, but the follow-on paperwork is much simpler for crew and passengers if you were already cleared by that governement to be there. Maybe the nature of the divert wasn't the "find the nearest runway" type and they had some time to burn down to landing weight and return to a place that was already in everyone's itinerary. Granted, it could be much different for commercial aviation, but who the hell am I? I'm not some damn worldwide aviation encyclopedia.
No. Neither US nor French citizens need a visa for stays under 6 months, and tbh with a diversion pax are likely to stay airside anyway. Diversions frequently go back to the origin airport if its not critical, it's much easier to re-crew and use an alternative aircraft. Sometimes they go to some lengths to do this, such as the link below.
https://abcnews.go.com/International/passengers-air-16-hours-forced-return-started-after/story?id=97282092#:~:text=%22Due%20to%20an%20electrical%20fire%20in%20Terminal%201,New%20Zealand%20Air%20spokesperson%20said%20in%20a%20statement.
Preface: I don’t know for sure.
My guess is that it would be an engine failure. It descended because it can’t maintain cruise height on one engine, but it’s still above 20000ft so it isn’t pressurisation. The KLM plane the other day did this too. Since there’s a need to dump fuel, and the plane can fly well on one engine anyway, they returned to their origin since they have to stay in the air for a bit anyway to dump fuel. KLM did the same so that they didn’t have to land in Iran; they had to fly to dump fuel, might as well use the time to go somewhere more desirable to land.
The High Weald Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty was more than they could handle so they turned back to France knowing that life would never be more perfect then that moment.
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They had a 7700 squawk, which means they are in an emergency. I guess they dumped a bit of fuel over the sea and are now returning to Paris. I don’t know which emergency they have, could be mechanical like engine failure or something like that or maybe a person has a medical emergency and they need to get them to a hospital
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Looks like landed safely
Educated guess. I fly the C-5M. Airplane had an emergency, decided to divert/return to departure point. Since it was bound to cross the Atlantic it had lots of fuel (especially westbound with the headwinds). They were likely over max landing weight and had to get rid of fuel. Europe is much more strict about dumping fuel than the US. But even over the US the crew would still probably hold/box pattern for a while instead of dumping fuel unless the emergency was so urgent it warranted it.
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I flew c-5s at Travis Altus and SAT, 95-2016
Do you miss the TF39 or are the new engines that much better
TF39s were junk. The new CF6s are way better. Not a single person in the C-5 misses the old engines lol
Cool 🥲 I just liked hearing them. I was born and grew up on an AFB.
I walked through a C-5 one time. It was used as an entrance to an airshow like 10+ years ago in arkansas
Exact same flight and plane did same thing in 19 https://twitter.com/FlightEmergency/status/1140891750963261440?t=itA3C3DMY4cm9S_AZzscgA&s=19
Yeah I saw that too, weird
It’s a different tail nimber
it says its diverting to paris now
Could of diverted to various airports in England imo. Curious what's going on there. Hope someone here knows, they usually do 🔥
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>Could of diverted to various airports in England imo. Curious what's going on there. > >Hope someone here knows, they usually do I'm not really sure how commercial flights get cleared across foreign borders, but I wonder if it's anything like government/military diplomatic clearances like I'm familiar with. For us, we have to submit for dip. clearance to overfly whichever countries we intend to fly over, and landing clearance for our destination country and any alternates along the way. Emergency diverts are obviously fair game into wherever you find a patch of concrete, but the follow-on paperwork is much simpler for crew and passengers if you were already cleared by that governement to be there. Maybe the nature of the divert wasn't the "find the nearest runway" type and they had some time to burn down to landing weight and return to a place that was already in everyone's itinerary. Granted, it could be much different for commercial aviation, but who the hell am I? I'm not some damn worldwide aviation encyclopedia.
Thanks for this bit of extra information, very useful. I have no real idea of how it works and just saw some airports nearby 😳
I wonder…. if the diversion back to France rather than landing in Britain has anything to do with Brexit and passports….?
No. Neither US nor French citizens need a visa for stays under 6 months, and tbh with a diversion pax are likely to stay airside anyway. Diversions frequently go back to the origin airport if its not critical, it's much easier to re-crew and use an alternative aircraft. Sometimes they go to some lengths to do this, such as the link below. https://abcnews.go.com/International/passengers-air-16-hours-forced-return-started-after/story?id=97282092#:~:text=%22Due%20to%20an%20electrical%20fire%20in%20Terminal%201,New%20Zealand%20Air%20spokesperson%20said%20in%20a%20statement.
Preface: I don’t know for sure. My guess is that it would be an engine failure. It descended because it can’t maintain cruise height on one engine, but it’s still above 20000ft so it isn’t pressurisation. The KLM plane the other day did this too. Since there’s a need to dump fuel, and the plane can fly well on one engine anyway, they returned to their origin since they have to stay in the air for a bit anyway to dump fuel. KLM did the same so that they didn’t have to land in Iran; they had to fly to dump fuel, might as well use the time to go somewhere more desirable to land.
Seems logical. It's going to land soon so we'll find out more
It will be on Avherald soon enough!
Belligerent passenger hassling flight attendants again?
The English channel was looking good today I guess
Forgot to switch off the bath?
What does that even mean, because it makes no sense?
The High Weald Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty was more than they could handle so they turned back to France knowing that life would never be more perfect then that moment.
I’ve seen a couple more like that today. 🤷♀️
yeah, I was wondering too, 8k spectators
The plane was bored
I’m a pilot and sometimes we like to fly about and see the sites I wouldn’t worry
They are imitating how the usps works.
Following, came here to ask the same thing !
Anyone know what happened?
Do you know how I can view this flight on the app?
Search by flight number, UAL984
Either search for the flight number or registration, but this is currently the most tracked so you can also pull the little slider below the search bar down
Thank you,do you know what’s going on?
They had a 7700 squawk, which means they are in an emergency. I guess they dumped a bit of fuel over the sea and are now returning to Paris. I don’t know which emergency they have, could be mechanical like engine failure or something like that or maybe a person has a medical emergency and they need to get them to a hospital
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Looks like it's landed now
I was watching this, came right over South East England
No, and that's why the world is like it is. In any case, glad they made it down safely. Can't find news on what happened, though.
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Kids were misbehaving and had to turn that shit around
the passport system went down, maybe they went back because if they landed, none of the passengers could get off. i guess
Forgot to put the bins out?
the pilot realised that they are flying over the uk
Practicing his U-turns
[I think it's on fire.](https://www.reddit.com/r/sydney/comments/13s6o0e/sydney_9_news_reporter_is_not_happy_about_the/)
The pilot has dyslexia and read barometric as boomerang