Posted on 11/15/2015 1:24:48 PM PST by markomalley
An El Al Israel Airlines flight from Tel Aviv to Los Angeles made an emergency landing in Montana on Sunday after the pilot received an automated alert that the aircraft's engine was on fire, transportation officials said.
The Boeing 777 aircraft, carrying 279 passengers and 20 crew members, landed on the runway of Billings Logan International Airport about 6 a.m. local time, Aircraft Rescue and Firefighting supervisor Mike Glancy said.
The pilot grounded the plane after a cockpit warning light switched on, indicating a fire in the right engine, Glancy said. After the plane landed, fire and transportation officials examined it but found no sign of smoke or fire.
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Funniest movie I’ve ever watched.
LAX to TLV, non-stop? Wow, that’s quite a hop.
Isn’t there any way to shut that off? It sure makes a lot of people seem less smart than they are.
Hop-along Ginsberg Ping
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Nah. according to flight aware is is 6601 miles.
DFW-SYD. 7454 miles. That’s a hop!
Singapore Airlines is starting a nonstop from NYC (EWR?) to SIN. That will be the worlds longest flight.
Lol!
Good news!
The El Al flight is back in the air and enroute to LAX. Due to arrive at 19:57.
It’s pretty amazing looking at the world from the perspective of the top of the world. You can clearly see it makes more sense to go from NYC to Japan by way of Canada and Siberia as opposed to going across the U.S. Mainland and the Pacific.
We loose perspective when we look at a flat map. That big curved line we see on standard map is just too difficult for our minds to process. Often we tend to think east-west when the shortest route on a sphere just may be over the top, which is not well represented on a standard map.
And since you brought it up:
Last year I flew HKG-ORD:
Pretty amazing perspective. Consider that thousands of people fly that route without even realizing that part of their trip is over the Arctic Circle, which just a century ago was mostly unexplored.
Is there a website where you can plot points like you did?
The runway in Billings (KBIL) is only 5501 X 75, seems very short and narrow for a 777.
For Israel to LA they probably had two crews.
Ops, my error. On a second look there are three runways at Biliings Logan. The longest, 28R 10L is 10518 X 150, no issues landing a 777 on that one.
I have an alibi.
Yes, www.gcmap.com. Best to know the 3-letter airport codes.
It's two whole crews. On those really long flights, they time out in the air.
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