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On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 02:04:01 GMT, Michael 182
wrote: That said, "a failed alternator hardly qualifies as an emergency landing situation". Might be best if you qualify that a little better: a failed alternator in VMC conditions may not be an emergency landing situation. It's probably safe to assume that someone making a precautionary landing on the condition is probably worried about _something_ and there are an awful lot of _somethings_ that can be going wrong along with a failing alternator. Electrical fire is not the least of it. You know, there was that SwissAir flight that terminated off the coast of Nova Scotia a few years back. They were dumping fuel prior to landing due to a small electrical problem they were having. If they had landed overweight, they would've survived. While it's easy to play Monday-morning quarterback, the point is, FFR, based on past experience, not to let the small problems develop into big problems. Morris |
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