Oops: American Accidentally Flies Wrong Plane To Hawaii

One MIle At A Time ^ | 9/11/2015

[Gamecock]

For those of you not familiar, ETOPS stands for “extended-range twin-engine operational performance standards.”

Or more informally, ETOPS=Engines Turn Or People Swim.

[Lx]

ETOPS

Engines turn or people swim.

[Lx]

Damnit!

[Smokin' Joe]

Geez. How can anyone find the debris field if there isn’t enough ‘floaty stuff’ on the plane?

[US_MilitaryRules]

5 seconds.

[Lx]

Second place is first loser.

[SeaHawkFan]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPwrodxghrw

[FreedomPoster]

You’ve got to be really, really quick on Free Republic, as you just saw. Happens a lot.

[tcrlaf]

” I can’t even begin to imagine what kind of a “ruh roh” moment that must have been.

They ended up canceling the return flight and then ferried the plane back to Los Angeles empty.”

I can....
A scheduler and a dispatcher just lost their jobs.

That should have been caught somewhere along the line, even if it was a last-minute aircraft swap.

[Lx]

A scheduler and a dispatcher just lost their jobs.

I have it on good authority that both are trans-gendered, trans-racial lesbians so they're being promoted.

[tcrlaf]

To continue that same thought, how does THE CREW accept a non-ETOPS aircraft for that flight?

Sounds like a cascade of stupid on that one.

Some poor ramp schmuck probably looked at another one and said, “Why are we loading Hawaii bags on a non-ETOPS?”, and was told by the ramp sup to get back to work.

[anymouse]

Or you can fly Aeroflot from Seattle to Moscow over the North Pole.

On that route there are almost no places to emergency land except onto desolate ice and snow. Basically any emergency landing is no different than a crash - it is extremely unlikely that you will survive it.

They even give you a polar explorer certificate after you get off the flight (I have one somewhere.)

[T-Bird45]

Sounds like a cascade of stupid on that one.

That is a standard condition found when investigating accidents/incidents: one critical factor starts the cascade effect until the feces hit the rotating oscillator.

[dfwgator]

Wanna Get Away?

[DannyTN]

I just want to tell you both good luck. We’re all counting on you.

[W.]

"Oh, what?"

Is it "Oh, and the 2nd word begins with S?"

"And, does that word end with T?"

I wonder if the miscreant pilot was sitting in his own S when he realized his error?

[rktman]

Lol! 😂

[Calvin Locke]

Way back, my first transatlantic flight was on a 767 just a few months after the aircraft got its approval.

As I remember, the flight path went further North to stay “in range” of land longer.

Obviously, transpacific flights are a bit different.

[COBOL2Java]

So they flew the wrong plane, which was bad enough. Would have been even worse if it was a red-eye with the wrong passengers.

"Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Honolulu."

"WHAT?! We're supposed to be in New York!!"