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Originally Posted by Toddnel
Medlink decides you divert, it’s tough to not divert.
Any and everyone involved that counseled a divert to Goose needs serious re-training. That place is nothing. It is a military outpost airfield. The town has 8000 people. There is no hospital. There’s no bevy of services standing by to service and repair airlines as it is in Gander.
Med link doctors are not responsible for the security and well being of our plane and crew. Let them stick to their Bonanza’s
Just two weeks ago, a 777 captain with a medical emergency over flew a medlink advised landing and continued to destination based on what he personally saw in the cabin and the advice of on board medical people. It worked out fine. Fsap filed, all is well and no news coverage.
The Canadian Border services state online, that they will only provide services to aircraft with 15 or less passengers at Goose.
I don’t think a lot of people understand what a threat putting a 300 passenger airliner into a remote location at 30 below. So many things can easily go wrong and often do at those temps. With a 5mph wind, skin gets frost bit in about five minutes.
This was a major F/U. You’d think our Fltops and Dispatch would have learned a lesson from three years ago when we did it. We got such a black eye from that.
We are not flying freight. It wasn’t on fire or out of fuel. The comfort and security of all our passengers on the ground, needs better consideration than our divert planning policy seems to allow.
Hopefully this will serve as a “teachable moment” this time and flight ops will use that mountain of memo’s, briefings, bulletins, etc to get the word out.