How many diverted flights have you been on ?

[GladstoneTim]

I have had two diversions from memory.
About three or four years ago was on the evening QF BNE-GLT flight. Storms on approach, about three attempts with undercarriage lowered. Rough. Bit concerning as about a fortnight prior a friend had died as a pax in a light aircraft crash between GLT & ROK. Ended up returning to BNE with QF putting pax up at Clear Mountain. Got to bed about 1a.m. The taxi ride there was scarey-driver didn't know where he was going, pitch dark, twisty road. Those on the first flight the next morning had to leave about 4a.m. To help QF out with loadings I volunteered for a later flight.

The other time was also a Dash 8, this time mid-morning GLT-BNE. Storms in BNE so diverted to MCY. On the ground about 60 mins. If i didn't have checked luggage i could have headed off to my meeting in Caloundra. Very few announcements in the terminal when time to reboard so a number of pax left behind. They had cabin bags left on-board so don't know how they would have felt about that!

Always found QF very helpful and accommodating with disrupted ops-esp the GLT airport staff.

 

[UP4014]

Delays yes, missed connections yes, diversions never had one.

Matt

 

[Ewing]

I've had one diversion - on AA.

Flight was originally scheduled to fly LAX-AUS but we were short on fuel so diverted to DFW for a top up.

Fairly uneventful. We landed, pulled up at a gate, refuelled and took off again. I was in F, so the full cabin drinks service continued when on the ground - no complaints at all. Of course if you were back in Y you may not have been as happy as the flight was 100% full

Here's the email I got from Tripit:

Hi Shaun,

AA 1294 was scheduled to arrive at AUS but instead landed at DFW.

For help/changes: American Airlines 1-800-433-7300

For the latest flight status information, or to open your full itinerary, view your trip:

(link removed)

Happy Travels,
TripIt Pro

 

[ReLoad]

Got three not real diversions and one doozy of a diversion.

the three non diversions:
1.
QF 400 this morning, a lady in row 26?? passed out during Taxi, they called for a doctor on board etc, so we turned around and back to the terminal offloaded her and went back on our way.

2.
Earlier this year on a 737, during take off about half way through the speed up, we slammed on the brakes really hard scarred us all coughless lol, apparently a door latch sensor had triggered in the coughpit, so we taxied off, they checked the door, and went back around again, no problems.

3.
Missed curfew at Sydney due to thunderstorms, didnt get any dispensation, so QF put us up in a hotel and we came back the next day and flew home.

the real diversion:

Back in the mid 90's (cant remember the year, but i have a newspaper clipping of the incident and ill scan it in when i get home) Flew UA to LAX i think out of SYD. Anyways about 5 or 6 hours into the flight, i was in the second last row of whY on a 747 I heard a huge Bang noise and my seat got pushed forward like someone was jumping over it. As it turns out there was a fight in the galley, the Australian ex swim coach (some russian guy - Gennardi or something) pushed a flight attendant and sent her flying

Two guys got him to the ground and i sat on his legs as he was thrashing about, anyways the co pilot came down with a restraint kit, and cleared the last row of 4 seats in the middle, and 5 of us got him in there laying flat and cuffed him to the seats.

We diverted to Hawaii, and landed at something like 2am local time, two of the buggest cops i have ever seen (native Hawaiians) picked him up by his scalp and took him off the plane.

As it was so early there was no customs or refuellers around so we stayed on the tarmac for approx 5 hours till we got underway again.

UA were totally awesome they kept everyone cool, left the plane running for aircon (as it was hot) with drinks and all the rest, they sorted all our missed connections and everything was peachy.

My mum kept the paper article about it for me, ill scan it in when I get home early next week.

 

[ozbeachbabe]

I've had one diversion - on AA.

Flight was originally scheduled to fly LAX-AUS but we were short on fuel so diverted to DFW for a top up.

Fairly uneventful. We landed, pulled up at a gate, refuelled and took off again. I was in F, so the full cabin drinks service continued when on the ground - no complaints at all. Of course if you were back in Y you may not have been as happy as the flight was 100% full

Here's the email I got from Tripit:

Crikey that's sailing a bit close to the wind isn't it? They must've been right on the minimum legal amount of fuel they're required to carry for that to happen.

Would've thought they'd put a bit more on for "Mum & the kids".

 

[markis10]

Some of you would have heard my diversion story, having got on the wrong plane in Itami, Japan I was heading to JFK, on short final we suddenly started to ascend. Ended up in EWR, we were number 1 into JFK behind departing TWA 843:

TWA Flight 843 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I was originally going JFK-ITM-SYD, and ended up going JFK-ITM-EWR-JFK-ITM-SYD, I received credit for two flights JFK-ITM-SYD in J which were enough to elevate me to Gold Worldperks Member, strangely after three 16 hour flights over Alaska in close succession I was not in a hurry to take advantage of any "perks" associated with flying Northwest.

 

[jb747]

In about 18,000 hours of flying, and untold paxing sectors, I haven't diverted all that often. As a passenger only once, when the 767 ended up with smoke in the cabin, and SYD-MEL became SYD CBR.

Operating:
747
Nagoya to Brisbane, via Townsville, due Brisbane weather [1989]

767
Perth - Singapore, returned to Perth after multiple birdstrikes [1993]
Jakarta - Sydney, diverted to Melbourne due Sydney weather [1994]
Melbourne - HK, planned diversion to Darwin for extra fuel due typhoon HK. Two go arounds on arrival HK [2001]

744
London - Bangkok, planned diversion to Stansted for fuel after fire at UK storage depot. [2006]
Singapore - London, diverted to Amsterdam after go around. Weather.[2008]
Hong Kong - Melbourne, diverted to Manila [2008]

 

[NM]

Also not many diversions over many years. The only ones I can remember:

QF (TN) 737 MEL-BNE via OOL due weather in BNE
QF 737 BNE-ADL via MEL (planned) for fuel during a period of refuellers industrial action.
QF 767 BNE-SYD returned to BNE after hitting SYD curfew
AA 767 MIA-LAX returned to MIA due engine failure

 

[drewbles]

In over 200 flights, not one divert. I guess i've been lucky. A few missed connections here and there, with overnights in cities at airline expense, but the closest I came was a MEL-PER flight that almost got diverted to BNE (was a 2345 arrival into MEL) due to Fog. Pilot advised us that it was a slight possibility, and on landing I saw why (was pretty foggy when we landed obviously).

 

[straitman]

In about 18,000 hours of flying, and untold paxing sectors, I haven't diverted all that often. As a passenger only once, when the 767 ended up with smoke in the cabin, and SYD-MEL became SYD CBR.

Operating:
747
Nagoya to Brisbane, via Townsville, due Brisbane weather [1989]

767
Perth - Singapore, returned to Perth after multiple birdstrikes [1993]
Jakarta - Sydney, diverted to Melbourne due Sydney weather [1994]
Melbourne - HK, planned diversion to Darwin for extra fuel due typhoon HK. Two go arounds on arrival HK [2001]

744
London - Bangkok, planned diversion to Stansted for fuel after fire at UK storage depot. [2006]
Singapore - London, diverted to Amsterdam after go around. Weather.[2008]
Hong Kong - Melbourne, diverted to Manila [2008]

... and how many diversions during your military flying career :?:

 

[PaulC83]

Just the one, QF1 BKK->LHR, about 1.5 hours before end of flight there was an announcement regarding anybody who had diabetes medicine onboard, shortly followed by a course change and an announcement we were landing in FRA due to medical emergency. Took an apron position in FRA and medics came in through a service door just in front of PE (where I was). They got the jump starters out and tended to the passenger, took him out the same door on a guerney.

Then waited about an hour to repeal the flight plan and submit a new one, go through safety demo etc. again, then continued on to LHR.

Had one half diversion earlier this year SYD->MEL. Passenger had boarded (738) and mentioned to the staff they had a fear of flying. The staff made more of a deal of it than the should have (in my opinion) and this scared the passenger even more. Half way through taxi she wanted to jump ship so we turned around and had to find a free gate to unload them, then ended up at the back of the queue. As this was at the end of a long trip back from HKT I was not happy (as I did a SYD->MEL->ADL for SCs and it just ended up being more tiring and a pain in the cough than it was worth). The downside of alternate routings

 

[danielc]

In all my travels I can only think of 3 diversions:

1985 - Western Airlines DC10 from SFO to SLC (about a 90 minute flight) but when flight got near SLC it was fogged in...Circled for about 45 minutes, no lifting of the fog, so diverted to Boise Idaho and sat on the ground for a few hours. Fog finally lifted so then proceeded to SLC and landed about 4 hours late.

1988/89. Two flights both on UA 747SP. The first was meant to be LAX-SYD but diverted to NAN for fuel. The second was meant to be SFO-HKG, the 747SP was substituted at the last minute for what was meant to be my first 747-400 flight. Again due to strong headwinds, the flight made a re-fuel stop in TPE. For both of these diversions the ground time was just about one hour. On the second flight I was connecting in HKG to SIN. Thankfully UA held the connecting flight so passengers wouldn't be stranded in HKG.

 

[Flying Fox]

In all my flights, diversions = 0.

I feel like I'm boring!

 

[soorox]

I don't know if it would actually be classified as an diversion but, I recall traveling on BKK-MEL a few years back on the 744 and the aircraft had to have a stop in DRW, I remembered there was a man wearing handcuffs being escorted out by QF FAs. The worst thing was they kept us all onboard for about 2 hours!

Just I quick question with my little flashback, when did QF axe BKK ex MEL?

 

[Postcode]

AA ORD-JFK quickly became ORD-ORD after a bird strike on the windscreen. I saw it as I exited the plane and it was a mess.

AY HEL-CDG quickly became HEL-HEL (flight to and from you know where) when after take off the plane circled the city at low altitude and after a few minutes a lengthy message in Finnish was broadcast. English translation followed - This plane can't climb so we're going back to the airport. The lounge was empty so all was good.

QF MEL-OOL became a trip to BNE due to weather.

To be honest I prefer a diversion to what alternative lay ahead.

 

[Voyages]

On AA flight in August

DFW to ORD => Diverted to STL due to severe storm.

I then missed my connecting flight ORD-BOS and had to stay in Chicago overnight.

 

[gilly]

A QF PER-KTA flight I was on had to circle over KTA as the 737 that landed before us basically got bogged in the runway after night works resealing the runway hadn't dried properly. We eventually flew to PHE and landed, waited on the runway for an hour while they decided what to do. Eventually a bus was organised to take us to KTA and we got there around 10 hours after our scheduled arrival time.

A QF 717 ZNE-PER I was on became ZNE-ZNE after a mid air engine failure.

Another QF ZNE-PER had to land at KTA to refuel which required a deviation in the opposite direction. ZNE had fuel issues.

I was also on a DJ flight that did a go-around to avoid a flock of birds at PHE.

 

[jb747]

... and how many diversions during your military flying career :?:

None.........

 

[NM]

None.........

And I expect that was a good thing with arriving at the other Melbourne (the one with the pitching "runway") in an A4

Out of interest, how often would you have no alternate available when operating from the carrier? i.e. not enough fuel to reach tera firma.

 

[jb747]

And I expect that was a good thing with arriving at the other Melbourne (the one with the pitching "runway") in an A4

Out of interest, how often would you have no alternate available when operating from the carrier? i.e. not enough fuel to reach tera firma.

I never operated the A4 to the Melbourne. I was a bit late on the scene for that. Did two cruises on the Seaking, but my A4 deck qual was due a couple of weeks after the Melbourne lost two aircraft a few days apart. Unfortunately, the aircraft never went back, and that was, more or less the end....