Missed flight connection, plane flys back to pick up passenger.

[GGD]

Pretty interesting set of circumstances that caused a plane in-flight to turn around to go pick up somebody who didn't get to the gate in time to board.

http://siouxcityjournal.com/news/local/w...5c041.html

I noticed that while reading about the passing of one of the pilots of the United DC-10 flight 232 that crashed attempting to land in Sioux City after an engine failure knocked out all hydraulic systems. Amazing that they even got to the airport, and that 184 people survived.

http://siouxcityjournal.com/news/local/p...ebe78.html

[Paul F.]

A passenger who happened to be the pilot for the return trip... Yeah, better go back for him, or they'd have been stuck at the far end until the pilot had slept.

The more you read about that Sioux City crash, the more you come to appreciate that it was a freaking miracle anyone survived...

[BernDog]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W45wMs6jSUg

Over half survived.

[Speedy]

Yes, astonishing flying. Same for the plane flying over Canada that ran out of fuel and still landed safely.

[GGD]

Speedy wrote:
Yes, astonishing flying. Same for the plane flying over Canada that ran out of fuel and still landed safely.

Somehow I never heard of that Canadian 767 when it happened in 1983, just read about it. Amazing sequence of small errors leading up to not having enough fuel.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimli_Glider

[maco]

GGD wrote:
[quote=Speedy]
Yes, astonishing flying. Same for the plane flying over Canada that ran out of fuel and still landed safely.

Somehow I never heard of that Canadian 767 when it happened in 1983, just read about it. Amazing sequence of small errors leading up to not having enough fuel.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimli_Glider

I had forgotten about that one. An interesting list here:

List of airline flights that required gliding

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_air...ed_gliding