Air Canada flight diverts to Boeing Field

[robbreid]

Air Canada flight diverts to Boeing Field

Associated Press - August 12, 2009 2:15 AM ET

SEATTLE (AP) - An Air Canada flight from Toronto has landed safely at Boeing Field rather than Seattle-Tacoma International Airport after reports of a problem with a wing component.

Federal Aviation Administration operations officer Karen Byrd says the pilot of Flight 541 wanted a long runway as a safety precaution after reporting a flap problem. Sea-Tac's longest runway is undergoing reconstruction so the flight diverted to nearby Boeing Field, which has a roughly 10,000-foot runway. Byrd says the plane landed without incident at about 8:30 p.m. Tuesday. There were no reports of injuries.

Byrd says the plane was a twin-jet Embraer 190 but she did not know how many were on board.

Sea-Tac spokesman Perry Cooper says he understood Flight 541 carried 79 people.

[yycflyguy]

Air Canada flight diverts to Boeing Field

Byrd says the plane was a twin-jet Embraer 190 but she did not know how many were on board.

...as opposed to those tri-jet Embraer 190's

[MrWings]

An Embraer at Boeing Field?

Sacrilege!

[C-FABH]

An Embraer at Boeing Field?

Sacrilege!

An Embraer with a flap problem?

Fiddlesticks!

[4Stroke]

EMBRAER (def'n): Every Mechanical Breakdown Requires An Electronic Reset.

HARHARHAR.

[robbreid]

Update;

An Air Canada Embraer ERJ-190, registration C-FHNL performing flight AC-541 from Toronto,ON (Canada) to Seattle,WA (USA) with 79 people on board, was on approach to Seattle, when the crew reported flaps problems, aborted the approach and decided to divert to the Boeing Field because of the 10000ft long runway available there, while the longest runway at Seattle Tacoma Airport was closed for maintenance. The airplane landed safely at a higher speed than usual.

[Inverted2]

Gee, they seem to have a lot of flap problems with those things. I thought the CRJ was bad!

[C-FABH]

Gee, they seem to have a lot of flap problems with those things. I thought the CRJ was bad!

Funny how Embraer and Bombardier have a lot more in common than we thought!

[Joe Blow Schmo]

An Embraer at Boeing Field?

Sacrilege!

Well at least it wasn't a 320!

[orbit]

So it is true Air Canadas' fleet is being maintained in El Savador....by Aveos....wow what a surprise more to come???
Too bad the crew has to deal with this .........low budget service....