Talk about crazy fines for crazy reasons.
Feb. 26th, 2005 06:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theweaselking747 engine fails on takeoff, but pilot starts 11-hour transatlantic flight from Los Angeles to London anyway because it would cost him £100,000 to stop, under a new EU regulation
It eventually ran low on fuel and made an emergency landing in Manchester instead of getting all the way to Heathrow.
BA said financial concerns had played no part in the decision. Captain Doug Brown, the senior manager of BA's 747 fleet, said the only consideration had been "what was best for passengers".
"The plane is as safe on three engines as on four and it can fly on two. It was really a customer service issue, not a safety issue. The options would have been limited for passengers [if the plane had returned to Los Angeles]." He said the pilot would have had to dump more than 100 tonnes of fuel before landing at Los Angeles. "The authorities would have had words to say about that.:
It eventually ran low on fuel and made an emergency landing in Manchester instead of getting all the way to Heathrow.
BA said financial concerns had played no part in the decision. Captain Doug Brown, the senior manager of BA's 747 fleet, said the only consideration had been "what was best for passengers".
"The plane is as safe on three engines as on four and it can fly on two. It was really a customer service issue, not a safety issue. The options would have been limited for passengers [if the plane had returned to Los Angeles]." He said the pilot would have had to dump more than 100 tonnes of fuel before landing at Los Angeles. "The authorities would have had words to say about that.: