View previous topic :: View next topic |
Author |
Message |
vvk106 Member
Joined: 19 Apr 2008 Posts: 38 Location: nagpur
|
Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2018 8:17 pm Post subject: 738 flying low |
|
|
I am from Nagpur a couple of hours back i heard an aircraft flying overhead. Looked up saw a plane bit lower than the normal cruising altitude. Checked on flightradar it was siliguri-mumbai jet Airways flight aircraft reg VT-SJJ and it was cruising just at 16000 ft. I checked the playback on flight radar and since it took off from siliguri it never climbed above 16000 feet. Does anyone has an idea why was it cruising at such a low altitude?? |
|
Back to top |
|
|
The_Goat Member
Joined: 03 Mar 2007 Posts: 3260 Location: South of France
|
Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2018 12:40 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Very disturbing if true.
There may have been a pressurization failure but if so, the pilot should have diverted to another airport like CCU, instead of flying all the way to BOM. _________________ I don't know which is the more pampered bunch : AI's widebodies (the aunties) or Jet's widebodies (the planes).
-Jasepl |
|
Back to top |
|
|
vvk106 Member
Joined: 19 Apr 2008 Posts: 38 Location: nagpur
|
Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2018 2:42 pm Post subject: |
|
|
The_Goat wrote: | Very disturbing if true.
There may have been a pressurization failure but if so, the pilot should have diverted to another airport like CCU, instead of flying all the way to BOM. |
Its true. Even i guessed that it must be a pressurisation problem. You can check history of VT-SJJ on flightradar and playback the siliguri-mumbai leg. It cruised at 16000 ft all the way to mumbai |
|
Back to top |
|
|
|