Pilot Incapacitated over the Atlantic | British B777 Divert to St. John's
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- Опубликовано: 19 мар 2024
- 15/MAR/2024
British Airways B777 performing flight from New York to London was cruising at FL400 over the Atlantic when the flight crew declared medical emergency reporting one of the pilots had become incapacitated and was unable to perform their duties.
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Wishing a nice and speedy recovery to that pilot!
Amen!
Seconded!
This is you: 🤡🤡🤡@@onyourbikes
@@onyourbikes your mouth breathing is ineffective
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I live here at St. John's, and I just wanna express gratitude to my local airport workers and air traffic controllers for safely bringing down the bird into here, plane was grounded for 3 days while another plane, BA9156 came in to pick up the stranded passengers (EWR-YYT) [G-YMMJ]. Sunday I watched the emergency aircraft leave YYT back for London-Gatwick, thank you to all airport staff out at YYT and around the world for everything you do.
WHAT A GREAT PLACE TO LIVE, LUCKY YOU. REMEMBER OTHER FACTORS DETERMINE OPTIMAL LANDING AREAS. (COULD BE FOR THE JOHNYCAKES)
For such a quiet and small airport there is a mighty load of frequencies and instructions for a solo pilot to perform whilst controlling the aircraft at the same time.
Totally agree. That whole ground operation could have been handled by a single person. In fact, they all sounded pretty much the same, I wouldn’t be surprised if the same guy was manning all those frequencies.
In Holland we have discrete frequencies where the aircrew can simply stay on one frequency all the time. Sectors just take over from each other on that specific frequency.
@@ph-scprv9113 Yes but that is not only smart is also fast and reliable, you are asking too much for this place... Holland is at least 100 years ahead! (sigh! 😥)
Would there not have been a relief pilot onboard?
@davidkak1354
Not for a transatlantic.
@JonathanWinton123
People fly planes alone all the time.
I’ve never heard of ground ops being a rationale for two crew planes. Even technicians can move them by themselves.
FO is probably doing tasks he has never had ro do before ALL BY HIMSELF. (Landing checklist, atc, many other check lists, keeping his Captain alive and well) All while trying to fly a plane and ensure the safety of 100s of passengers. He did great
Negative. There is, at least, 2 full crews for the long hauls in the Triple 7. It was likely the medical emergency that brought them down as opposed to continuing. Just SOP
@@OhMySack positive.
@@OhMySack BA really pays 4 pilots for a 7hr flight when most others use 2-3?
@@OhMySack that's not true
@@OhMySack Imagine posting with such confidence and yet being utterly wrong lmao.
I love how he doesn’t forget his manners and is so thankful. Beautifully British, even in an emergency! Hope all is ok for the sick crew. Much love from Australia 🇦🇺
A nervous young co-pilot, holding everything together and upholding BA's best traditions. Respect! 🏴
The poor FO sounded pretty flustered. No doubt a stressful situation. I hope the pilot recovers well.
consdidering it has been several days and BA has not made any comments or press releases i am fearful he did not make it.
Rubbish@@SupremeRuleroftheWorld
@@davidwarren202 Thank you for your informed and gracious comment.
He was taken to hospital for treatment, but not heard anything since.
It was the first officer that was incapacitated.
Thank you very much for picking this incident up! All the best wishes for the incapacitated Pilot!🍀🍀🍀
Gander and St. John’s to the rescue again.
Long history of being at the right place at the right time.
Heroic little airport indeed!
saw the plane taking off out here with the relief crew, I knew something was up as don't have regular 777 service. A sight to see but I know something was wrong.
With a medical emergency it is significantly easier to taxi the aircraft to a gate with a jet bridge. This way medical staff can be prepared with any equipment within seconds of the door opening and wheeling the individual out of the aircraft and to the ambulance can be done safely, and quickly via the air bridge.
Having emergency vehicles meet an airliner away from a gate is not the preferred method.
Think you responded to the wrong comment, I don’t know anything about ground work haha. I just love near the airport
@@blug407 There's a comment above yours asking why they taxied around the airport instead of getting the pilot off asap if it was a medical emergency so I think they meant to reply to that one.
Unusual and wrong, whilst not mutually exclusive, are not the same thing😉 Seeing two 777s on the ground there would have been something to remember.
Wow, I was flying YYT-YHZ later that afternoon and saw two BA 777s sitting on the apron in St. John’s. One was this flight and the other was the rescue flight from London. The rescue flight departed right after we did. Kudos to the crew, ATC and St. John’s airport staff for handling this impromptu diversion well.
Why send a rescue flight? Nothing was wrong with the plane was there? Why send another 777 with just a new pilot? Doesn’t make sense
@@Lesloi6227pilots and cabin crew would be out of hours, so would you need a whole new set of crew for the onward journey, and a set of crew or just flight deck to repatriate the aircraft back to LHR. the existing crew will either continue as pax to scheduled destination or return to LHR
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GREAT VIDEO AS ALWAYS, THANK YOU🙏😃
I hope the pilot is OK
I saw a very similar medical emergency in person back in Winter 2021 when I was doing work at YYT just outside the airport fence by the deicing pad. It was a Qatar airways flight and in a similar fashion it was parked on the deicing pad, stairs were rolled out, and emergency medical personnel were brought in through the deicing fence gate. Parking on the deicing pad seems to be the standard procedure for medical emergency aircraft at YYT, especially for the big birds. Wish I could find the flight number for it....
I remember that too! And I remember the flight number, I got you fam!
Qatar Airways Flight QR706 [Callsign: QTR85E]
I remember this diversion. I'm an Aircraft Cleaner at Gatwick for GGS. We clean the BA long haul fleet on the turnarounds so it was irregular to see G-VIIP divert to St John's
Seeing the British Airways leaving YYT on Runway 10 last week was something else. I could see it from my house.
@@piercethe737pilot It's not the longest of runways for a 777, I would have liked to have seen the departure from the ground as it must have used almost every inch of it...
i was once on a 'plane from the US to the UK that made an unscheduled stop in St. John's Newfoundland to disembark a sick passenger (I think he was unwell when he got on the 'plane in Chicago). As the plane landed the pilot exclaimed over the public address: "Welcome to Newfoundland. Lobster anyone?".
If you'd gotten off the plane, someone would have handed you a bottle of deadly rum and a codfish to kiss.
Another reason why two pilots are still required to operate an airliner.
Should go back to three now, as this is happening all too often.
@@JustSayN2OYeah I wonder why :(.. Weird influx of pilot incapacitation problems recently.
@@mitchyboy41 I don't recall this type of event happening more than once every several years, like every 5 years, before 2021. What changed ? ? ? ? ?
You seriously have to ask what's going on? Hmm? Maybe all those experimental injections?
@@JustSayN2Ovaccines probably
I live a few kilometres from this airport, but never noticed… damn!
Haha, you could say that again man. I didn't know till 2 days later when my friend told me.
It's nice to listen to ATC not rapping their transmissions like the US ones.
It was clear that one pilot had rather full hands doing it all alone.
You think?…..
Always wondered about St Johns when cruising by, never figured to look it up. On the way to England in April, I'll be sure to look down as we pass by.
St. John's is my hometown. I know it well :)
@@roderickcampbell2105 thanks
please do lol. We are under a major skylaneso we see big planes flying over all the time. I am constantly watching them so we might end up looking at each other lol
With a medical emergency it is significantly easier to taxi the aircraft to a gate with a jet bridge. This way medical staff can be prepared with any equipment within seconds of the door opening and wheeling the individual out of the aircraft and to the ambulance can be done safely, and quickly via the air bridge.
Having emergency vehicles meet an airliner away from a gate is not the preferred method.
Eeesh - emergency crew was standing by waiting for the plane to stop going around in circles. Hope that pilot's ok.
Hey we've all taken a wrong turn at some point.
St John's International Airport has seven gates with air stairs. Four of the gate ramp parking areas appear expansive enough to adequately handle a B-777.
Well done! However, I'm a bit curious. Since this is a medical emergency, why not use other methods to get the patient off the plane first? Watching the plane taxi around the airport seems like it wasted quite a bit of time.
They probably don't have airstairs that would allow for deplaning.
@@mehere8299 YYT is an important diversion airport, so they definitely have adequate airstairs that are used from time to time.
Speculation only but ... the medical situation may not have been life-threatening. A pilot was incapacitated so the emergency was making sure to get on the ground as soon as possible. Once on the ground it may not have been too urgent to get treatment.
As trained medical personell myself, I concur with this. We don't know the medical issue, but if it was a suspected heart attack for example, it would be urgent to get medical supervision, ECG, testing etc. When you turn around over the Atlantic, high speed, nearly directly to the runway, but then is ordered to taxi around the entire airport (which is void of other traffic), it just seems very strange. They have air stairs and they have ambulances.
Maybe it was just a horrible case of Montezuma's revenge.
Yes it was a lot for the second pilot but he did fine. They train for things like this.
Can you do a video on the Aruba incident yesterday with a Boeing 737? Engine blowout shortly after takeoff.
Meanwhile, the big companies are pushing to have only one pilot.
In the future only autopilot , no humans allowed in the cockpit....
* the voice at 0:58 is something along the lines of "may we expedite our speed below 10,000" not what you've typed.
Gander and Canada to rescue AGAIN!?
That area one of the most eastern parts of in North America (excluding Greenland) hence Gander's frequent use in the cases of emergencies when planes are flying westbound over the Atlantic.
Bangor ME is another frequent spot for diversions. Being the last US airport and a Air National Guard base it has the long runway for the heavies
Gander is a three-hour drive away from St John's.
Hope the crew member is safe and recovering.
If it were a time sensitive emergency, why not stop and get the crew member off? The taxi and missed turn added minutes before medical services arrived.
Does the 777 have its own stairs? I ask because the 777 doesn't normally fly into YYT, so they might not have a set of airstairs of the right height.
@@mehere8299it does not have built in stairs
@@mehere8299- 777 doesn’t have its own stairs like the 737 does. However, these airports around Newfoundland are international alternates and so are equipped with all the necessary ground facilities to accept and then dispatch these large aircraft.
Meanwhile, on january 24 , indonesian airliners "batik air" pilot and co-pilot both sleeping for about 28 minute and their route deviate pretty far from planned soekarno hatta airport... Simply outrageous!
How’s the FO do a 180 without the tiller on his side?
We both had the fish.
pfizer or moderna fish?
😮❤
Did he have the fish?
no he had the lasagna. And stop calling me Shirley
No, she doesn't work the 777 flights
He had the rare chicken.
it's ok you can tell me, I'm a DR
Now that he’s in Newfoundland, he’ll have to kiss the fish.
As soon as they contacted ground, part of me was expecting the ground controller to clear then for take off runway 16😂😂
Did the pilot make it i hope?
It’s an emergency. Declare and fly the plane as you see fit
Probably about the only time St. Johns will see a 777 lol.
Sept. 11, 2001…
1x American 777, 2x BA 777, 1x DAL 777, 1x UAL 777.
Let´s say: A seldom Guest.
@@pjotrtje0NLNot on a regular scheduled run though. Is what I meant. Obviously it would be a diversion point.
@@Demosthenas then you should’ve typed that 😉
Wheres the alternate flight crew?
What happened to Runway 11/ 29? The Earth rotate 1° or did they dig up the runway and shift it over slightly?
Magnetic Variation changes over time, to the point that runways occasionally need to be re-numbered since the old number no longer reflects the magnetic heading of that runway.
There's a great cgp grey video on this if you're curious.
@@eschybach No. The above comment re: magnetic shift sufficiently satisfies my sarcasm. But thanks for the offer!
@@djsmith2871 I didn't catch the sarcasm 😅
@@eschybach It can be subtle in text. 🤔
Have a good one!
I thought there had to be three pilots on long haul flights? Also, what was the medical emergency exactly?
JFK-LGW is not a long haul flight - maybe only 6.5hrs flight time
@@Man_from_UNCLE Yes but if one is out of action there should still be two pilots to bring the plane in. Airlines need to spend more of their billions on safety.
What on Earth are you supposed to do with this one pilot approach being floated now when you're in a situation like this? I always think about this. I would never want to be on any plane without at least two pilots.
And there pop up this crazy discussion about having only one pilot in the cockpit ?????
If that had been US ATC they'd have berated the pilot for taking a wrong turning. Nice to see someone being helpful!
Do you have a link for that, after all the videos we've had of helpful US ATCs with emergencies?
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He's just come back, needs medical. Why the fuss over de-icing?
That’s just where they had them park.
They used the de-icing pad as a parking spot for the plane to meet the paramedics. It wasn't for de-icing.
I see. Thanks.@@belmarmom
Thanks.@@GorgeDawes
Just have a follow me car.. like wtf xD
Indeed.
It would be sort of difficult to have a follow-me car here, due to how much vehicles we have here at YYT and where we can put them. Remember, we are a pretty small airport with little to no space for such vehicles.
Edit: Also, forgot to add. Big planes such as Boeing 777's are typically rare, along with any other long-range airliner, making it not a point to have follow-me's.
There are always 3 qualified flight crew for that long flight with the plane having two engines.
Nope, not unless it's 8+ hours seat time and even then the SO/IRO (depending airline) isn't left seat qualified. Most TAs are two crew.
That must have been a shot in the arm for the co pilot...
🤣 i saw what you did there
Underrated comment.
@romanb.6905 thanks, I'm here all week.
Just what I was thinking 🤔 😅
Careful, jab idolators are always lurking about to protect their golden calf.
Safe and effective
Straight jacket time.
Yeah spoken like a sheep that hasnt ever heard of "died suddenly" since 2021....All cause mortality is up 20-30% since 2021...DUH....get another booster....@@strnglhld
Deleting my posts wont take away the fact that DIED SUDDENLY is a thing SINCE 2021....headline today--30-Year-Old Egyptian Football Player Collapses Mid-Game and Stops Breathing for an Hour After Suffering Cardiac Arrest - Doctors are Baffled@@strnglhld
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the scared sheep that rolled up their sleeves are the mouth breathers..@@notsureigaf
I have NO IDEA what could be causing all these pilot incapacitations. What could it be?!?
Fish
Foolishness
Point of wiew , of lunatics of cours!
I dunno, they are in their mid 50s early 60s in a high stress job and their bodies are not necessarily temples??
@@nicolad8822ok, I can tell you, there is no stress.🤣🤣.
Having said that, lifestyle can be pretty bad. Especially in the USA, where pilots commute to their base.
Remember to get the next round of boosties.
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Is anyone investigating the cause for the number of incapacitated pilots over the last two years or is that just business as usual? It's a lot of reports on this phenomenon.
The same people that are responsible for investigating the increase are baffled and suddenly wealthy
Vaxxed.
In my 30 years of flying I have never seen as many pilot incapacitation incidents as I have seen in the last few years. Also, a lot of healthy pilots dying at my airline. I have no idea what changed in the last few years 😏
I wonder if there were some changes in or to the medical exam requirement?
Could be related to a certain 'medical intervention' the world was forced to have.
HERE COME THE LOONEY TUNES🤣🤣
@@user-ve4sm8cb9ci can see your tin foil hat from here
@texas737pilot The deniers will also say the same thing for the 1000%+ increase in heart attacks happening in 20 year old athletes. "You're just conspiracy theorists" comments will always happen. Meanwhile, these same people refuse to look at VARES data or all cause mortality data..... cognitive dissonance is a real thing ......
Just wondering what was the date of the pilot's last "JAB"?
Pfo
Yawn.
Oh do please piss off.
Coinciditis strikes again!
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Why is this comment section full of anti vaxxers?
Because antivaxers are closed minded idiots!
Because those losers have nothing better to do with their lives than comment on social networks
They're of the belief that humans have never fallen ill before the advent of the COVID vaccine so obviously everything from cancer to being struck by lightning is actually the big spooky JAB.
Being against taking a rushed, emergency approved medicine doesn’t make one an anti vaxxer.
@@afridgetoofar1818 yes, it does actually.
Them mandated pokes really causing some issues
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Boeing at it again. Oh wait, can't blame Boeing this time?🙄
You spelt Pfizer wrong.
The stress of operating Boeing for many years finally took its toll.
People in my country say Boeing is complete garbage. Is this true?
@@omgsrslyNo
And who pays for all the expenditures in Canada?
As I understand it, every state that is signed upto ICAO bears the cost on a quid pro quo basis.
Fish shouldn't be allowed on planes
I don't know... The teriyaki salmon is rather good😋
Damn… the amount of Pilot incapacitations since the rollout of the Covid-Vaccines is insane… Before this happened maybe only once/twice a year and now its like a regular occurrence almost every month…
Confirmation bias.
That is not even close to being true. You are just pulling stuff out of your rear end.
I'm going to stop buying 2% milk there have been more Boeing incidents since I started, if I go back to full cream they may stop!
@@simplelife6663 - Using cream repels tigers, too. I haven't been attacked once since I switched.
I don’t remember every episode being picked over years ago, maybe that’s why?
That means the vaccine is working
Preexisting condition. That's what they always say. OBEY PEOPLE!! OBEY!!!
As a pilot you lunatics will face anything but facts and stats when it comes to the industry. Crawl back into your hole and tell yourself the world is also flat.
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Jabbed.
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Jabbed
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Incavaccinated
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@@notsureigaf no refunds
@@Taydrum [mouth breathing intensifies]