[Scan-DC] Unknown Aircraft Situation

[Thomas P. Clouse]

probably doing a tower fly-by to get one of the controllers to give
a visual on the landing gear. May have blow a tire on takeoff.

On Saturday, April 18, 2015, Thomas J. Dalrymple <tjdalrymple at gmail.com>
wrote:

> From the radar track, he was lined up with the runway, and turned left
> after passing the Wilson Bridge. If I'm reading the flight log
> correctly, he was as low as 1000 feet before turning and climbing.
> Spent another 30 minutes in the air before landing.
>
>
>
> On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 9:44 AM, Mary and Bob Jeter <904jeter at gmail.com
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
> > In that case it's not a good idea to return to DCA with it's short
> runways.
> > Right after take off airplane is at it's heaviest and requires more
> runway
> > to land than as if it had burned off fuel such as would be the case upon
> > arrival at destination.
> >  IAD was always the take off alternate when I was flying.
> > Long runways, no water at the ends, services for pax and airplane.
> >
> >
> > On 4/18/2015 9:36 AM, Dewey wrote:
> >>
> >> Thanks.  I listened to the archives, and whatever emergency it was, it
> >> happened almost immediately after takeoff.  Once he declared the
> >> emergency,
> >> he ended just about all of his transmissions with "emergency".  Sounds
> >> like
> >> this is one of those recommendations that comes from recommendations
> after
> >> critical events, such as, when Avianca 52 went down in New York (1990)
> for
> >> fuel starvation because the pilots didn't immediately make the severity
> of
> >> their situation known.
> >>
> >> Dewey
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Scan-DC [mailto:scan-dc-bounces at mailman.qth.net <javascript:;>]
> On Behalf Of Thomas
> >> J. Dalrymple
> >> Sent: Saturday, April 18, 2015 09:09
> >> To: Scan-DC
> >> Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] Unknown Aircraft Situation
> >>
> >> He's landed.  From Flightaware, it looks like he circled around to
> >> return to DCA, then diverted to Dulles.
> >>
> >> On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 7:54 AM, Dewey <dewey3 at gmail.com <javascript:;>>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> American 874
> >>
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