Legend!

Class

Only the irish could get away with this. Class :-)

class/legend. grow the f up

Love that!

By the look of the flight path Shannon would have made more sense alright. Maybe UsAir have crew/parts in Dublin that could deal with it better and it wasn’t that much of an emergency to need the nearest airport..

I’d say because dublin must have had the slot space available, or maybe it was a specific fault and that they had the people to hand to fix it in dublin…

It was also commented on the ATC radio that it was an “overweight landing” so going the extra distance could also have given them the opportunity to burn off a bit more fuel.

The aircraft needs to descend 32,000ft or more and in doing so would cover about 100miles. Rather than spiralling down to land at knock or Shannon it easier to just make a direct descent to Dublin which would have better facilities than Knock anyway to deal with this.

Knock doesn’t have the air side facilties to handle jumbo jets. Also it doesn’t have any servicing capabilities.

Maybe Terry Wogan turned them off using Shannon aswell!

Don’t knock the power of the Virgin Mary

Shannon has the longest runway in Ireland and one of the longest in Europe!

But its still in limerick:-)

Shannon, Co. CLARE

Sssh declan you’ll ruin me joke…

Would you like to be holed up in Knock or Shannon ???

Thought as much

Cause Dublin’s bleedin rapeh righ! Anyone that says udder-wise gets a bleedin loaf!

FFs. If it landed in knock you’d say why didn’t it land in dublin or Shannon

What,on the intercity express bus?

Frank

I agree with you. A few months ago I emailed thejournal.ie about the same kind of incident. Nothing reported then. So why today?

Cheap News, all it does is to cause hysteria in already fearful flyers!

Modern trainspotting.

Please tell me how to get these notifications

From what I’m aware u can get them by enabling squak notifications; found in alerts in settings. This may be wrong but I reckon this is it

Download Flightradar24 to your smartphone. Set up ‘squawk alerts’ for 7700. And turn on ‘push notifications’.

Although i dont think this plane today changed squawk code.
Alternatively i your a comlete anorack you can sit in all day and listen to Shannon AirTraffic Control Tower live, at http://www.liveatc.net – theres an App for that too ;)

Irish ‘controlled’ airspace i’m sure they mean? 50 miles out, its over to Shanwick Oceanic ;)

That’s incorrect. Irish domestic airspace is all the way to 15 degrees west. Them shanwick oceanic control the flight as far as 30 west. 15 west is over 200 miles from our western coast, not 50!

http://www.usaflightsupport.com/images/IrishAirspaceMap.jpg here’s a map that shows it.

Boring