What happened to the United flight from Athens to New York and why was it in Reykjavik, Iceland?
Many questions unanswered so far arise from yesterday’s flight of United Airlines from Athens to New York Airport in New York, which almost turned into a thriller for passengers, when the Boeing 787-10 Dreamliner was diverted to the airport. of Reykjavik in Iceland. There may not be any official announcement from the company so far, but there are many scenarios that arise and the composition of the crew members inside the cockpit, which according to international regulations must fly under certain conditions and limits. However, according to initial estimates, the aircraft arrived in Reykjavik, in order to pick up an additional pilot from there, as it became known that one of the members of the trip was declared with a broken leg.
As he explains in protothema.gr the pilot and mayor of Vari-Voula-Vouliagmeni Grigoris Konstandellos In any case, the company had to inform the passengers of the flight about the 4-hour delay at “El. Venizelos” but also about this intermediate stop:
“What we know so far is completely vague and unprofessional I could say. When we have a crew member and in particular a pilot who is not able to fly a plane, he owes and is obliged to declare. We must be 100% healthy, even if we feel dizzy, a little colic, we must declare it. So a major question we have here, is how did an aircraft take off from Athens with a crew member who was not 100% able to fly? The second issue that arises should not be done by informing the passengers, where you must from the moment the travel process has started, to have informed them of the final destination. On a flight where there may be an operational necessity and someone else has to land either for fuel, for a long time, or for an illness, when you know this before departure you have to pass it on to the passengers. It is not something that happens suddenly but something planned “.
According to Mr. Constantellos, this type of transatlantic voyages take place with a specific composition in the cockpit:
“In long-haul aircraft over 12 hours there is a third member in the cockpit. There is a governor and two co-governors, the two governors and a co-governor. “I no longer know the composition of the crew here, but what I know from international law and European and American is that the more crew members it adds to the cockpit, the more flight hours you can do on a plane,” he says, giving his own. assessment of what really happened:
“I think the plane may have left with the two healthy crew members and the third one traveling as a passenger. With this limited composition, however, they could not cross the Atlantic because they would thus violate the boundaries of airports and employment. As a result, they went to Iceland to board the other pilot, which means that his limits were increased and the flight to New York could be completed. So far, however, there is no announcement from United “.
One of the passengers of the UA 125 flight, Gregory Pappas, in a post on Facebook states that the company began informing them with messages about the diversion to Reykjavik and the receipt of an additional pilot and that everything was a matter of misunderstanding.
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