Originally Posted by
cencal83406
Not that it is an excuse, but the MKE incident involved pilot pushing by maintenance when they ACARS'ed the MX and DX departments. In fact, one of the things that crew got hammered on was use of ACARS, as it was deferred.
It was comical but mostly sad what they did...total hyd failure of system 2 coming out if lga. Then over flew buf, dtw, and grr to land in a snowstorm in MKE.... they held while the crossing runway was plowed and landed on the contaminated runway. Weeeee! Over a million dollars of damage to the plane.
Oh, and they taxiied what was left of the plane to the gate.
Edit: I forgot to mention the 4th item on the checklist was land at nearest suitable airport. Buf, cle, dtw, and grr were all nice weather....