757 escorted by CC-130?

EI-EIO · Post by **EI-EIO** » Mon Jul 03, 2006 10:41 am

What "assistance" was the CC-130 tasked to provide?

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/story/ ... ml?ref=rss

Guido · Post by **Guido** » Mon Jul 03, 2006 11:55 am

EI-EIO wrote:What "assistance" was the CC-130 tasked to provide?

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/story/ ... ml?ref=rss

SARTechs, I would imagine ( ? )

RFN · Post by **RFN** » Mon Jul 03, 2006 1:59 pm

Maybe the big plexiglass door towards the rear of the Herc could come in handy if the 757 crew wanted an external inspection done.

Dusty 3 · Post by **Dusty 3** » Mon Jul 03, 2006 3:18 pm

here's their flight path.....

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/TCX6 ... /CYUL/EGKK

EI-EIO · Post by **EI-EIO** » Mon Jul 03, 2006 5:25 pm

Odd that the flight path indicates EGKK as dest when CBC reported it was EINN.

ch135146 · Post by **ch135146** » Mon Jul 03, 2006 6:52 pm

EI-EIO wrote:What "assistance" was the CC-130 tasked to provide?

Not much detail in that story, but if ATC notifies the Rescue Coordination Centre (RCC) of an airliner that has a red page emergency, RCC almost always lauches the standby SAR Herc (or Buf) and helicopter.

Honestly, it's not so much rendering "assistance," as it is getting a head-start to a possible crash site...

pika · Post by **pika** » Mon Jul 03, 2006 7:07 pm

Seems like a lot of action for losing the center hydraulic system.

EI-EIO · Post by **EI-EIO** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 10:01 am

ah... they could have just said. Jeez the way they hemmed and hawwed about what it was doing anyone would think the CF had 130s doing QRA!

ch135146 · Post by **ch135146** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 1:08 pm

EI-EIO wrote:...anyone would think the CF had 130s doing QRA!

Yeah, ready to send Johnny Canuck over on a wire like in Harrison Ford's Air Force One movie!

Usually, in similar situations, the SAR aicraft is stood-down shortly after airborne, or even before taxi, when the situation is resolved.

What I don't understand is how an aircraft out of Dorval turns around near Quebec City with an emergency, and transits to Toronto. I guess it had something to do with company logistics, but it wasn't exactly the Sioux City hydraulic-failure situation, eh?

Despite all the comms available these days, it may have been poor human communication between the cockpit and ATC that resulted in the Herc "escort mission."

Who knows? (retorical question, no response necessary unless you do know. mileage varies. do not use underwater)

ch135146 · Post by **ch135146** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 3:26 pm

...it wasn't exactly the Sioux City hydraulic-failure situation, eh?

Sioux City United Airlines DC-10 crash video:

http://www.goyk.com/video.asp?path=715

Sioux City United Airlines DC-10 crash article from AirDiasaster.Com:

http://www.airdisaster.com/eyewitness/ua232.shtml

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