A Gulf Air routine flight GF250 took an unexpected detour from Bahrain to Dhaka, diving into an emergency landing in Bangkok.

 

The gripping incident unfolded as the Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner, flight A9C-FE, grappled with foggy mayhem and fuel crises.

 

A Gulf Air Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner, en route from Bahrain to Dhaka, plunged into a nail-biting emergency over Bangkok. The routine journey of flight GF250 took an unforeseen twist as A9C-FE declared a crisis mid-air.

Gulf Air’s fleet, boasting ten Boeing 787-9 variants, faced the ultimate test as A9C-FE, a Dreamliner more than five years old, bore the weight of an emergency diversion.

 

With eight 787-9s actively soaring and two temporarily grounded, the airline maintains an average fleet age of 4.6 years. As the incident unfolded, questions arose about the fleet’s endurance and preparedness for unexpected challenges.

 

by Puntid Tantivangphaisal

Photo courtesy of Aviation Source News

 

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Totally incomprehensible 

Is Bangkok somewhere between Bahrain and Dhaka now?

Would Mr Puntid Tantivangphaisal  care to rewrite this article so we can all understand!

A decent from 40,000 feet to landing over a 30 minute time frame is hardly a dive.

Maybe this author didn't study Geography or English or Aviation or......

You've seen us drive, now watch us fly ?

Funny story with Gulf Air, flew back to Bkk with them from a middle east destination, landed at Bahrain airport on a stop over, bought myself an expensive bottle of whisky and we got on our way only to be stopped in Singapore where we were led into a room, had our carry on luggage searched and my bottle of whiskey take away citing the 100ml rule and were led back to the plane,

I didn't let it slide and raised hell with the airline as to why we were allowed to by liquids only to be take away from us few hours later and sure enough was fully compensated with an apology...

Edited December 12, 20232 yr by ezzra

The 787 ran into dense fog effecting the landing.  So the pilot diverted to a landing in Bangkok. Diversions like to another airport are not unusual due to poor visibility.  The squawk 7700 is an alert sent declaring an emergency.  The emergency can be an environmental issue, such as the fog. Running low on fuel could be that plane kept circling the airport hoping the fog could clear.  And had to divert due to remaining fuel Or a separate issue. But that part of the story isn’t clear. 

59 minutes ago, RobU said:

Totally incomprehensible 

Total BS, over a diverted landing.

All aircraft depart for their destination with a calculated fuel level plus an extra percentage for such events.

On top of that figure they also have a "reserve fuel level" which usually should never be needed/used.

They also punch-in to their data-base other airport locations should a diversion be needed.
If these cannot be used then arrangements between the aircraft and air-traffic control are made.

The pilots are full aware of fuel levels when held in a holding pattern due to bad weather conditions

The 7700 code is the aircrafts transponder [which squawks silently] it's location to air traffic control, and indicates they have declared a Pan Pan Pan which gives them a priority over other aircraft and not an emergency "May-day".

 

 

Edited December 12, 20232 yr by hotchilli

21 minutes ago, swm59nj said:

The 787 ran into dense fog effecting the landing.  So the pilot diverted to a landing in Bangkok. Diversions like to another airport are not unusual due to poor visibility.  The squawk 7700 is an alert sent declaring an emergency.  The emergency can be an environmental issue, such as the fog. Running low on fuel could be that plane kept circling the airport hoping the fog could clear.  And had to divert due to remaining fuel Or a separate issue. But that part of the story isn’t clear. 

Agreed.

1 hour ago, RobU said:

Totally incomprehensible 

 

Utter gobbledygook and geographical garbage. And we got some soccer news inserted again at the beginning.

 

Lordy.

Edited December 12, 20232 yr by BusyB

1 hour ago, RobU said:

Totally incomprehensible 

Absolute gibberish

It is probably a good idea, if you are going to do " cut and paste journalism", to cut from relevant materials?

 

The wranglings over Bobby Charlton's funeral arrangements are hard to connect with a flight diversion in South East Asia!

 

Don't have sub editors on Thaiger do you! 

6 minutes ago, herfiehandbag said:

It is probably a good idea, if you are going to do " cut and paste journalism", to cut from relevant materials?

 

The wranglings over Bobby Charlton's funeral arrangements are hard to connect with a flight diversion in South East Asia!

 

Don't have sub editors on Thaiger do you! 

 

The Glazer's seem to get blamed for everything these days, including diverted flights!

Oh well, a few extra tourists for TAT to add to their statistics.

 

 

Edited December 13, 20232 yr by Denim

No clue what this journo is yammering on about ... A shocking diversion? The subcontinent gets heavy pollution in the non rains like SEA. As such the pilot diverted to Bangkok. No problems. 

 

However
 

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Boeing 787 emergency dive

 

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As the incident unfolded, questions arose about the fleet’s endurance and preparedness for unexpected challenges.

Perhaps the journo is trying to discredit Gulf Air, or 787's  as these pigs appear for no reason. Then again this is Thaiger, trying to set the bar a little lower would be par for their course. 

 

 

Edited December 13, 20232 yr by Dcheech

5 hours ago, webfact said:

Glazer family 'set to snub Sir Bobby Charlton's funeral with Man United's owners fearing abuse from fans could overshadow the service', and other top stories from November 13, 2023.

Were the Glazer family onboard the said flight? Bobby's funeral was last week!

https://aviationsourcenews.com/emergency/gulf-air-787-bahrain-dhaka-emergency-diverts-to-bangkok/

Diverting from Dhaka to Bangkok and running into fuel shortage?

Is much closer Calcutta enemy territory, no fly zone?

Edited December 13, 20232 yr by KhunBENQ

2 hours ago, jacko45k said:

Is Bangkok somewhere between Bahrain and Dhaka now?

Only on Flat Earth map. (well maybe.)

Can't Thaiger write an artlcle without all the extra hyperbole?

 

And I am guessing this site has an agreement with Thaiger not to paste the whole article to be able to link to it here.

2 hours ago, RobU said:

Totally incomprehensible 

How did Bobby Charlton get on board?

3 hours ago, Maejo Man said:

Would Mr Puntid Tantivangphaisal 

There is no such living soul. Its a made up AI name.

41 minutes ago, mikebell said:

How did Bobby Charlton get on board?

Perhaps he was passing through on his way up to heaven?

"Glazer family 'set to snub Sir Bobby Charlton's funeral with Man United's owners fearing abuse from fans could overshadow the service', and other top stories from November 13, 2023."

At least the 3rd time this paragraph has been in the wrong story!!!! Does nobody ever check anything that is written on here????

This type of reporting from Thaitiger and his obsession with multi story video pieces is why i do not visit their site anymore.

1 hour ago, RobU said:

Perhaps he was passing through on his way up to heaven?

They always said Kenny Dalglish walks on water...

Perhaps they would do an emergency landing at Pattaya airport🤔, if there was any😂🤣

1 minute ago, The Theory said:

Perhaps they would do an emergency landing at Pattaya airport🤔, if there was any😂🤣

 

I think you will find that Utapao is classed as Pattaya....