United Airlines Boeing 787 diverts to remote Pago Pago

One Mile At a Time ^ | 12.31.2022 | Ben Schlappig

[libh8er]

Twin engine plane. One engine fails - in the middle of the Pacific - in the middle of the night.

[EEGator]

I’m not a pilot, but that’s not a good situation.

[vespa300]

I’d freak. wow.......

[Sarcazmo]

Good thing the other didn’t fail, they would have been there all night.

H/T Ron White

XD

[dfwgator]

What’s even worse is, they ran out of coffee.

[EEGator]

[SamAdams76]

What a long flight that is. My longest flight was a nonstop from New York to Hawaii but this flight was much longer than that.

I got about five of those little bags of peanuts.

[Glenmore]

Not Oceanic Airlines Flight 815…

[Vigilanteman]

45,000 people in all of American Samoa. Why does the FBI have an office in Pago Pago?

[lefty-lie-spy]

I think I see the problem,

“The flight was operated by a seven-year-old…”.

[Tom Tetroxide]

ETOPS for the win!

[Fai Mao]

140,000 people.on Guam, the FBI has an office there.

[Scrambler Bob]

Good thing the other didn’t fail, they would have been there all night.
= = =

And BuddyGig would threaten them.

[missnry]

Why does the FBI have an office in Pago Pago?

Ray Epps needs a warm spot to vacation under the care of the FBI.

[Vigilanteman]

Guam has a much larger drug problem than American Samoa. They also operate factories which finish garments and employ a fairly large number of foreign nationals.

[Scrambler Bob]

Twin engine plane. One engine fails - in the middle of the Pacific - in the middle of the night.
= = =

And they talked of one pilot, not two.

Calling BuddyGig, again.

[old curmudgeon]

I was no air carrier pilot nor was I qualified in jets, but I do have a lot of time in multi engine.

Most twin engine aircraft can make it safely to a safe landing with one engine unless the engine loss is at some very critical stage, such as on takeoff.

That is the theory and what we all tell ourselves on dark rainy nights.

But when it happens, the first thing that goes through your mind is “why”?....Could it be something that will make the other engine quit, like dirty fuel?

I had a friend killed exactly that way. An unsupervised new hire working alone on the ramp refueled his plane with jet fuel. Just after takeoff over mountainous terrain, both quit...first one and very shortly the second quit.

But almost every air carrier type aircraft can go a long way on one to a safe landing, but they are required for safety reasons to land at the nearest suitable airport.

[texas booster]

Three hours flying on one engine.

Pretty spiffy.

[Sarcazmo]

I would have been sweating like a whore in church.

I hate flying.