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Originally Posted by Fuzz
Air India flight managed to hit a bunch of stuff on takeoff, pilots reported nothing was wrong and flew 4 hours before diverting for an early landing.
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Originally Posted by Bigtime
That'll buff right out...
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While I definitely think the pilots were completely in the wrong, wouldn't they have had to fly around to burn off fuel anyway?
VOTR-OMDB is 1,586nm, or about 100nm longer than YYC-YYZ. With a planned flight of that distance, they would have been carrying a decent amount of fuel, and the B737 has no ability to dump fuel, as far as I know.
That said, however, with the damage they took, I would imagine a pilot would want to land as soon as humanly possible, even if it was over max landing weight. Where's our resident 737 pilot, lol? (Paging Ryan Coke...)
Mumbai is also only 1.5 hours away, and Dubai is a 4 hour flight from that airport. So either they did, in fact, fly around to dump fuel (but then why say the diversion was a "precaution", rather than declaring an emergency?), or they flew halfway to Dubai before deciding to turn around.