Thanks again for making this video for me. I remember staying up late (past 4am local time) to grab the audio for this one and got a video from my house of it taking off.
Hey, would you have anything on an Air India out of JFK which took the wrong turn into LaGuardia after take off? It seems it happened this last February - but cannot find anything but a couple of articles from flying enthusiasts.
Love hearing BA pilots on the radio - always so relaxed yet professional! You'd think they'd be sipping on their cup of tea whilst this whole thing was going on!
The pilot, who has never landed there before advising the ATC controllers of the best taxiing route is a little insane, although I can believe that as they must have been nervous landing such a huge plane. Good job all around.
@@maxotzenberger8374 More than occasional. UPS flies 747s into MSP regularly along with Atlas Air occasionally. Back when Delta was flying the 747, MSP had one there daily.
We don't. Our airport never really got outfitted to handle an aircraft that size. Airbus did stop during their tour of the US with the 380 but MSP isn't much of an international hub so we don't see much heavy traffic. Our airport is mainly a connection hub for Delta.
No we never get A380s here. Its only for Medical or weather diversions (from Chicago O'Hare). Look on my channel though for the Antonov An-225 taking off from MSP. That was the biggest aircraft to visit MSP ever.
@Captain Matt .. When I heard the KLM 787 a few weeks back, I thought it must have been an emergency! Pulled up FlightAware and saw it was a scheduled flight .. I almost had a stroke. It is so tragic to see what has happened since the end of Northwest. It is like the land of CRJs and 737 up here now. 1492 is landing as I type this .. but A330 isn't the old days of the "Gold Concourse" filled with DC-10s and 747s.
I could almost hear him thinking 'British Airways? That's Speedbird - we NEVER get to talk to Speedbird out here!'... and then they referred to it as Speedbird rather than British Airways just because. It's a damn cool callsign!
In 1956, while the new MSP terminal was under construction a friend of mine, whose father was an Army general, took us on a visit to the room where the air traffic controllers were working. Being 10 years old at the time, all that I remember is that the room was dark and that most of the light in the room was coming from the controllers screens. In 1962 we toured the new terminal before it was in operation. Unlike today there were only 2 concourses. Instead of the multiple parking garages there was one very large parking lot.
I still remember that day... I was pissed cause it came in 2 hours after my shift when i was a ramp agent with Sun Country at the time. Now im with Swissport Fueling. Thats who does fueling at MSP. When something like this comes in that the fuelers are NOT trained on, its the supervisors who do it. I heard stories from my co-workers when an Antonov 124/225 comes in, they have to have a crew member who can translate it for them cause the fuel panel is in Russian. As for the A380, ive seen the fueling panel. Its crazy.... Only way to fuel that A380 on the runway is by a 10K tanker.
Take about BA pilots being professional, I've seen one having a cup of tea when his 777 was getting pushed back in Sydney, Australia got a photo for it too. Lol.
This video is an exellent reminder why you should always be alert when crossing ANY runway, no matter if they are listed as "active" in the ATIS or not. Just one medical emergency is all it takes and suddenly you have someone landing on 35 (of all places) when runways in use are 12R and 12L. Now... nothing happend here, not even a close call, but I thought it was a nice little reminder not to think "well that runway is closed anyway" when taxiing...
Nice clip. Particularly enjoyed the use of the map and the plane and vehicle icons. But it must be an absolute nightmare for an airport to handle an impromptu arrival of one of these goliaths, what with the airport having a limited number of reinforced taxiways capable of handling their incredible weight.
Seems that ground heard "Can we do that in meters?" And replied "Yes sir" thinking they meant "Is 50 meters close enough?". I can't believe that a Brit doesn't know yard ~ meter.
Watching this just thought about the fact that I was on an A380 that diverted due to a medical emergency, there was even that "is there a doctor on board" announcement. It was an Emirates flight into Sydney that diverted and landed at Perth, turning an already long flight into the longest of my life. It was a long time between the emergency and landing in Perth -- we were over nothing but ocean with nowhere to land until we reached Australia's west coast. This was in 2010, or possibly 2009 or 2011, I've lost track. I never thought much about everything that had to gone on behind the scenes and the comms with ATC, or that one does not land an A380 just anywhere. Off now to see if there's a video of it! (Though maybe a bit too long ago for that.)
Haha this is amazing. My wife and I were at the airport waiting to go to Vegas and I freaked out when I saw the 380 and my wife didn’t understand why I was nerding out.
MSP has two terminals. Lindbergh is larger and dominated by Delta. Humphrey is off to the side and takes numerous smaller airlines. Planes have to commute to Humphrey from the runway. Also love hearing the Minnesota accents on the radio.
Good video. I've always wondered how serious medical emergency has to be to make the emergency/medical landing. If it is serious like heart-attack or some seizure or stroke. Or even some temporary fainting or temporary unconsciousness for a little bit is also enough to make that landing.
British Airways forced to land at an unscheduled airport and the BA pilot has to tell the ground controllers which taxiways can handle his aircraft. That’s pretty cool.
I love how funky our airport is at MSP. Big enough to be a (former) major airline hub, but not big enough for A380s... not incredible amounts of traffic, but 4 funky runways because Air Guard and MN weather.
“Not big enough for A380s” It sure is big enough for them. There aren’t any gates that are big enough to handle them if that’s what you mean, but the runways and taxiways can absolutely handle an A380.
Can't believe I watched this like a little movie. Two of the most polite regions on earth meeting. Great graphics, too - just wish the font was a bit bigger. Cheers, all.
I was wondering why I saw a BA A380 on Flightradar24 from MSP a few months ago, we don’t get many heavy’s here anymore, largest I have seen is a 744 but very rarely
Fun factoid for those thinking the "heavy" and "super heavy" categories are not too important: the A380 has a max take off weight of 1.2 *million* lbs and can be up to ~890,000 lbs when landing. Compared to a run of the mill Heavy at 300,000 lbs..... there's a reason these things can only operate on certain runways and taxiways; most aren't designed to handle the potential weight and size.
Sorry so late but fun fact: factoid is not a fact (in fact it's quite the opposite). It refers to a piece of unreliable information that is repeated so much that it is accepted as fact.
I really enjoy these videos. I was just wondering though if you offload a passenger does their luggage still go. They seem to be super strict regarding luggage if you aren't continuing on. I didn't know if an exception is made for this type of situation.
I was on an A380 that diverted for medical emergency about a decade ago. We sat on the ground for a *very* long time, and at one point the captain announced that the delay was because they had to dig through all the luggage to pull the bags belonging to the passenger offloaded. I can only speak for this one particular instance, but in this case, yep, we sat there while they searched for the luggage.
This bothered me as well until I saw it for the first time in a video. Same with the epiphany that pilots will have a map of the airport at hand and that usually they're not both having to frantically hold on to the stick lest the plane crashes...
Actually, Piers was on a smilar flight 3 years earlier.. from LAX to LHR and it also diverted to minneapolis for a mecical emergency.. here is the article abou tthat incident - quite similar. www.startribune.com/crew-member-falls-ill-forcing-london-bound-airliner-to-land-at-msp/267329471/ Any West Coast to Europe flight takes a great cirle route over Canada, and there is a lot of sparsely populated area in central Canada; Mineeapolis seems to be the "go-to" airport for medical emergencies on those great cirlce routes.
Note - The controller is not using the ICAO wake tubulence call suffix correctly for an A380 as it is "Super (Heavy)" - not (just) Heavy. Obviously not had too many A380's in his neck of the woods before.
Yep .. November 2007 .. Airbus was trying to lure some of Northwest's 787 business away with A380s .. which became rather moot shortly after the A380 visited. But she was a beauty to behold, inside and out. However, totally impractical for MSP. Good thing this landed during the late night lull. If this was mid-afternoon .. oh boy. What a mess!
We use metric for certain things and imperial for others.There is a big generation divide about which. I doubt he was joking. He just wanted to be sure he could visualise the distance.
Brit translation. 9.11 in the pilot says. 'OK, yeah. No, we haven't logged on so we'll log on now and well hopefully it will come through, if it hasn't though - get back to you and see if you can send it again'.
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I guess he didn't.... Check 9:57 where OPS said "fuelers are done" - I think the A380 got a fresh gulp of power juice for the remainder of the flight :D
Those who like the BA pilot's cool might like to hear Andy Green during the final run of the Thrust SSC car that gave him the World Land Speed Record:- ua-cam.com/video/zwh7Hlk6q1I/v-deo.html The whole calm under all circumstances thing is driven by the RAF and seems to permeate through UK aviation.
I'm not sure if there's a flightaware, but if you look at the GCMap for SFO-LHR, it's likely they were probably over Saskatchewan or Manitoba, so Winnipeg or Saskatoon would have been the closest decent sized airports, but likely not big enough for an A380, hence the longer divert to MSP.
I am guessing since the plane is so big, if they stayed there on the alpha part of the taxiway then the plane plus the medical trucks would be blocking other planes from taxiing to their gates. The plane was going to take off again after getting the passenger off the plane so they weren’t going to a gate themselves.
We had a divert in SEA for fuel almost a year ago. It was a DXB-LAX ferry that experienced a lot of head wind over Russia, landed late at night and was gone early in the morning.
well, not quite. with a 380 you have to consider where it physically can and can't go simply due to weight and size restrictions. good example in this video was the pilot pointing out that he could only use the A1 and A2 exits. The reason will be exactly that: size and/or weight. ATC should defer to that if they don't know any better - which they clearly didn't. Remember, this thing has a max take off weight of 1.2 *million* lbs and can be up to 890,000 lbs when landing.
Clueless? Because we DONT GET A380s!!! Idiot. MAC owns the airport so they decide where it goes. You dont live in MN or work there so you wouldnt know like i do. Troll.
So what do passengers who have medical emergencies have to do in this instance when they're taken to a hospital overseas? Would they have to book another flight home? In this case BA don't operate to this airport so I'd imagine they'd have to book a connecting flight?
I know that we should all be on metric for measuring. But there is no way my American brain could ever consider 40° really hot. Just can't do it. There is something special about the temperature going to triple digits.
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Thanks again for making this video for me. I remember staying up late (past 4am local time) to grab the audio for this one and got a video from my house of it taking off.
Hey, would you have anything on an Air India out of JFK which took the wrong turn into LaGuardia after take off? It seems it happened this last February - but cannot find anything but a couple of articles from flying enthusiasts.
hahaha, "Speedbird another 50 yards or so." "Can you give that in metres?" lol.
Speedbird: "Cheeky bugger." Having an English father helps me appreciate the suttle sense of humour.
45.72m. Out of all the imperial units yards are the most similar to a meter
@@KC-rd3gw which we also use regularly here in the UK, for instance sat navs they would use yards instead of metres
Disgraceful Speedbird, check up on your Imperial measures. I'm in the UK.
No one use really use yards out there apart from US and all the golfers 😂
7:53 engine 31: "50 yards" , speedbird: "can you do that in metres?" had me in stitches
This is the Midwest, you'd need to find a Canadian among us to help you 😂
Love hearing BA pilots on the radio - always so relaxed yet professional! You'd think they'd be sipping on their cup of tea whilst this whole thing was going on!
OMG!!! Totally exciting!!!! Very relaxed but they know exactly what they're doing.
That's us Brits for you lol
We rarely have ANY European companies fly into MSP. KLM and Air France are the only ones. It's exciting when we get some diversity. :)
The pilot, who has never landed there before advising the ATC controllers of the best taxiing route is a little insane, although I can believe that as they must have been nervous landing such a huge plane.
Good job all around.
James De Lambert they probably were.
Absolutely professional especially for the airport which rarely handle A380s.
Only 3 times as of 2021
Can it handle an A380
@@jacobwong2230 Absolutely, there are C-17s that fly into MSP a few times a month. As well as the occasional 747.
@@maxotzenberger8374 More than occasional. UPS flies 747s into MSP regularly along with Atlas Air occasionally. Back when Delta was flying the 747, MSP had one there daily.
MSP also had the An-225 a number of times. (RIP)
You’d be a bit confused I guess if you thought you were heading to London and woke up in a hospital in Minneapolis instead.
LOL
E31: Another 50yards would be fine sir
Speedbird: nah mate, we dont do that here 🙌
50 meters would be the same. :-)
@@ravingcyclist624 Almost, but not quite
He’s being a turkey there, a yard and a metre are almost identical give or take an inch/cm or two.
@@virginiaviola5097 A yard is about 9% less than a metre. So not really a "cm or two", a yard is about 9cm less than a metre
love the BA call signs "speedbird" 👌
Dates from Imperial Airways from the 1920's.
Actual call sign: Speedbird 6B Super
ATC: Speedbird 68 Heavy
Shit's hilarious, love it
That was handled very professionally even for an airport that sounds like it doesn't usually take 380's
We don't. Our airport never really got outfitted to handle an aircraft that size. Airbus did stop during their tour of the US with the 380 but MSP isn't much of an international hub so we don't see much heavy traffic. Our airport is mainly a connection hub for Delta.
Jc Dock no not at all, the biggest aircraft I have seen (besides the 380 in the video) is a 744 but very rarely
You forgot our seasonal 343 (soon to be 772) from Air France
No we never get A380s here. Its only for Medical or weather diversions (from Chicago O'Hare). Look on my channel though for the Antonov An-225 taking off from MSP. That was the biggest aircraft to visit MSP ever.
@Captain Matt .. When I heard the KLM 787 a few weeks back, I thought it must have been an emergency! Pulled up FlightAware and saw it was a scheduled flight .. I almost had a stroke. It is so tragic to see what has happened since the end of Northwest. It is like the land of CRJs and 737 up here now. 1492 is landing as I type this .. but A330 isn't the old days of the "Gold Concourse" filled with DC-10s and 747s.
My home airport. So cool! Our poor guys in the tower had to look up what an a380 looks like though.
Yeah it's not exactly tiny :P
How do they work in aviation and not know what the biggest passenger airplane in the world looks like?
+Sean Carney i think he's talking bollocks
Sean Carney he's exhaggerating, you nitwit.
I could almost hear him thinking 'British Airways? That's Speedbird - we NEVER get to talk to Speedbird out here!'... and then they referred to it as Speedbird rather than British Airways just because. It's a damn cool callsign!
Omgggg the meters killed me, and literally struck me when he said “So?”
In 1956, while the new MSP terminal was under construction a friend of mine, whose father was an Army general, took us on a visit to the room where the air traffic controllers were working. Being 10 years old at the time, all that I remember is that the room was dark and that most of the light in the room was coming from the controllers screens.
In 1962 we toured the new terminal before it was in operation. Unlike today there were only 2 concourses. Instead of the multiple parking garages there was one very large parking lot.
Like the controller planning ahead with the plane 45 min out from landing.
I still remember that day... I was pissed cause it came in 2 hours after my shift when i was a ramp agent with Sun Country at the time. Now im with Swissport Fueling. Thats who does fueling at MSP. When something like this comes in that the fuelers are NOT trained on, its the supervisors who do it. I heard stories from my co-workers when an Antonov 124/225 comes in, they have to have a crew member who can translate it for them cause the fuel panel is in Russian. As for the A380, ive seen the fueling panel. Its crazy.... Only way to fuel that A380 on the runway is by a 10K tanker.
Damn. Minnesota nice meets British manners. I've never heard so many "please, thank yous, and yes sirs" in my life lmao.
Take about BA pilots being professional, I've seen one having a cup of tea when his 777 was getting pushed back in Sydney, Australia got a photo for it too. Lol.
You sure it wasn't brandy?
The point stands.
This video is an exellent reminder why you should always be alert when crossing ANY runway, no matter if they are listed as "active" in the ATIS or not. Just one medical emergency is all it takes and suddenly you have someone landing on 35 (of all places) when runways in use are 12R and 12L.
Now... nothing happend here, not even a close call, but I thought it was a nice little reminder not to think "well that runway is closed anyway" when taxiing...
Nice clip. Particularly enjoyed the use of the map and the plane and vehicle icons. But it must be an absolute nightmare for an airport to handle an impromptu arrival of one of these goliaths, what with the airport having a limited number of reinforced taxiways capable of handling their incredible weight.
The gate confusion was funny to me.
Can you do that in meters :D
Mxmcking ahh, yes (silence)
Loved that hahaha
My favorite line out of any +VASAviation video
Edit: Typo
Gotta love the Brits. Lucky for ATC, they didn't have to. I can see them looking at each other shrugging
You mean the rest of the world? Ask any person from Europe, Africa, Asia & South America what 50 yards is and you'll get the same response xD
BA: Do u do that as metres?
Ops: Of course!
...
BA: So?
Ops: (off frequency) wtf did he say?...
LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
@ Haha, he’s just being extra precise mate.
Love the use of the maps!
Another top notch video VAS.
Thank you much!
MAC firefighter did not get the little bit of British humor thrown in there.
Assuming you’re on about yards and metres... I don’t think the pilot was joking, we genuinely have no idea what 50 yards means over here!
@@AHJ99. I assume you don’t play golf ?
Of course brits do you plonker.
@@AHJ99. Oh yes we do.
@@AHJ99. Bollocks
Can you do that in meters HA. Got a right chuckle out of that one. Good man.
Engine said: "Sure we can." and then never did :D
Seems that ground heard "Can we do that in meters?" And replied "Yes sir" thinking they meant "Is 50 meters close enough?". I can't believe that a Brit doesn't know yard ~ meter.
Of course they do he was having a joke
"Suuure we can.. ;)"
Are you really all too dumb to spell "metre" correctly?
Watching this just thought about the fact that I was on an A380 that diverted due to a medical emergency, there was even that "is there a doctor on board" announcement. It was an Emirates flight into Sydney that diverted and landed at Perth, turning an already long flight into the longest of my life. It was a long time between the emergency and landing in Perth -- we were over nothing but ocean with nowhere to land until we reached Australia's west coast. This was in 2010, or possibly 2009 or 2011, I've lost track. I never thought much about everything that had to gone on behind the scenes and the comms with ATC, or that one does not land an A380 just anywhere. Off now to see if there's a video of it! (Though maybe a bit too long ago for that.)
Loving the new maps.
Thanks!
Haha this is amazing. My wife and I were at the airport waiting to go to Vegas and I freaked out when I saw the 380 and my wife didn’t understand why I was nerding out.
Great coordination here between MSP ATC, Ops and ARFF. Keeping everybody involved and solving problems.
“Can you do that in meters?” 🤣🤣🤣. That’s hilarious.
MSP has two terminals. Lindbergh is larger and dominated by Delta. Humphrey is off to the side and takes numerous smaller airlines. Planes have to commute to Humphrey from the runway.
Also love hearing the Minnesota accents on the radio.
carschmn ...me too...I grew up there...they have a distinctive accent....
I’ll slam the brakes on lol.....then the fire chief didn’t know what the distance was in meters ....😂
Good video. I've always wondered how serious medical emergency has to be to make the emergency/medical landing. If it is serious like heart-attack or some seizure or stroke. Or even some temporary fainting or temporary unconsciousness for a little bit is also enough to make that landing.
British Airways forced to land at an unscheduled airport and the BA pilot has to tell the ground controllers which taxiways can handle his aircraft. That’s pretty cool.
Yay finally a video on Minneapolis my home airport!
And another one to come soon :)
Oh for Pete's sake, Tower has such a strong Minnesota accent!
o ya you betcha they do
Don't know if you use Facebook often, but we have an MSP spotter group! facebook.com/groups/1454826958107758/
You are in it also?
I love how funky our airport is at MSP. Big enough to be a (former) major airline hub, but not big enough for A380s... not incredible amounts of traffic, but 4 funky runways because Air Guard and MN weather.
Not sure if you saw speedbird landing on the runway.. if it was small they would have aborted 😅
“Not big enough for A380s” It sure is big enough for them. There aren’t any gates that are big enough to handle them if that’s what you mean, but the runways and taxiways can absolutely handle an A380.
Former? It's still a major airline hub.
At 8:03 he doesn't say "so", he says "Just shout".. meaning just say when to stop.
Are you sure? I also understood "so?"
Can't believe I watched this like a little movie. Two of the most polite regions on earth meeting. Great graphics, too - just wish the font was a bit bigger. Cheers, all.
“I got a question for ya”
We don’t normally get 4-engine planes here in Minnesota. It was a sight to see. :)
I guess not since DL retired their 747s. Used to be very common at MSP.
I was wondering why I saw a BA A380 on Flightradar24 from MSP a few months ago, we don’t get many heavy’s here anymore, largest I have seen is a 744 but very rarely
The last ever Delta 744 landed at Minnie for its final flight in service just a few days ago. I could probably scare up the liveatc for you.
Captions in red is difficult to read unfortunately
A little tounge in cheek humor there. "Can we have that in meters?"
At that point I would on my phone "Hey Google, 50 yards in meters"
Wow that would have been a sight to see
Fun factoid for those thinking the "heavy" and "super heavy" categories are not too important: the A380 has a max take off weight of 1.2 *million* lbs and can be up to ~890,000 lbs when landing. Compared to a run of the mill Heavy at 300,000 lbs..... there's a reason these things can only operate on certain runways and taxiways; most aren't designed to handle the potential weight and size.
Can I have this in kilo ? LOL
Sorry so late but fun fact: factoid is not a fact (in fact it's quite the opposite). It refers to a piece of unreliable information that is repeated so much that it is accepted as fact.
@@giantaxe3958 Wittgenstein
"Can you do that in meters?"
Yeah about 50. 1m is 1.09yds.
It's weird hearing someone from the tower speak so slowly after hours of listening to speed talkers I can barely understand. lol
I really enjoy these videos. I was just wondering though if you offload a passenger does their luggage still go. They seem to be super strict regarding luggage if you aren't continuing on. I didn't know if an exception is made for this type of situation.
I was on an A380 that diverted for medical emergency about a decade ago. We sat on the ground for a *very* long time, and at one point the captain announced that the delay was because they had to dig through all the luggage to pull the bags belonging to the passenger offloaded. I can only speak for this one particular instance, but in this case, yep, we sat there while they searched for the luggage.
7:51 this made my day...
'Can you do that in meters?' The US is always different from the rest of the world.
Glad you still work in Imperial. Shame on you Speedbird.
Early squad
I love these videos but I have no idea how the pilots remember all of these instructions.
We usually write them down.
This bothered me as well until I saw it for the first time in a video. Same with the epiphany that pilots will have a map of the airport at hand and that usually they're not both having to frantically hold on to the stick lest the plane crashes...
Ops44 were so polite
Apparently Piers Morgan was on this flight. LAX to LHR
Actually, Piers was on a smilar flight 3 years earlier.. from LAX to LHR and it also diverted to minneapolis for a mecical emergency.. here is the article abou tthat incident - quite similar. www.startribune.com/crew-member-falls-ill-forcing-london-bound-airliner-to-land-at-msp/267329471/
Any West Coast to Europe flight takes a great cirle route over Canada, and there is a lot of sparsely populated area in central Canada; Mineeapolis seems to be the "go-to" airport for medical emergencies on those great cirlce routes.
Metric system should really be used globally...
loved how the engine just stun there don't lnow what to do...
Yeah, that was embarrassing. Yards isn't even a standard unit in aviation.
But feet is, which is interesting
Isn't 50 yards pretty close to 50 meters anyway?
bout 45 meters, a car lenght
7 years in the US and I still can't understand Yards!!! I got used to feet, pounds and miles somehow!!!
You know feet? 1 Yard is 3 feet...
1 yard = almost 1 meter...
Yard is 36 inches meter is 39 inches.
Note - The controller is not using the ICAO wake tubulence call suffix correctly for an A380 as it is "Super (Heavy)" - not (just) Heavy. Obviously not had too many A380's in his neck of the woods before.
Only 1 at MSP, and that was 12 years ago, haha!!!
Christopher Steer They haven't been in service that long...
This was a promo and not a company operated 380. It might have been 10 or 11 years ago. I can't remember.
good memory. I did the google. and its 2007. read an interesting blog post, and watched some poor quality youtube videos.
Yep .. November 2007 .. Airbus was trying to lure some of Northwest's 787 business away with A380s .. which became rather moot shortly after the A380 visited. But she was a beauty to behold, inside and out. However, totally impractical for MSP. Good thing this landed during the late night lull. If this was mid-afternoon .. oh boy. What a mess!
"Can you do that in metres"... deary me!
He was joking
Joking during a medical emergency? Don't think so. Funny though, even I know that a yard is roughly a metre.
I don't think he was joking because he expected a response.
We use metric for certain things and imperial for others.There is a big generation divide about which. I doubt he was joking. He just wanted to be sure he could visualise the distance.
50 yards is About 45.7 meters in case anyone was wondering.
Can you do that in meters? ha
Indra Heodinata Haha none of that imperial rubbish
"metres" Dumdum.
pec104 dipshit. Both spellings are correct. Troll somewhere else.
But they're British! So to them it's "metres".
yes, (but I won't) :D:D
Brit translation. 9.11 in the pilot says. 'OK, yeah. No, we haven't logged on so we'll log on now and well hopefully it will come through, if it hasn't though - get back to you and see if you can send it again'.
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LMAO THE METERS THING
Damn the controller is out of breath 😆
Does someone know what the bloody hell happened to the passenger that needed the urgen medical assitance???
7:56 can you do that in meters :D I am done :D
EG 0611 yes sir.
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And then the speedbirg again: So?
Reminded me of that meme: "Well? Were waiting..."
"have you got that in metres?" XD
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+VASAviation
You should do a behind the scenes video
"Middle of a Weekday" is 6 x 24 hours around the globe - so this popularity measurement holds only in the place where our friend releases the video. Or do I miss something ?
I'm a bit surprised that it had enough fuel to do an unscheduled landing and takeoff, and still proceed to destination.
I guess he didn't.... Check 9:57 where OPS said "fuelers are done" - I think the A380 got a fresh gulp of power juice for the remainder of the flight :D
Those who like the BA pilot's cool might like to hear Andy Green during the final run of the Thrust SSC car that gave him the World Land Speed Record:-
ua-cam.com/video/zwh7Hlk6q1I/v-deo.html
The whole calm under all circumstances thing is driven by the RAF and seems to permeate through UK aviation.
I'm surprised it didn't land on runway 4 or 22
45 minutes out? That’s one of the problems of A380! Few options to divert! If a passenger has a heart attack waiting 45 minutes can be fatal!
I'm not sure if there's a flightaware, but if you look at the GCMap for SFO-LHR, it's likely they were probably over Saskatchewan or Manitoba, so Winnipeg or Saskatoon would have been the closest decent sized airports, but likely not big enough for an A380, hence the longer divert to MSP.
50 yards further. Can you do that in meters? Haha
The Tower mistaken Speedbird 6B Super for 68 heavy
If the Antonov 225 can do it, Speedbird A380 can do it ;).
Dude... you bring up a good fact..
Why taxi for so long when there is a medical emergency onboard? Would the first exit from the runway not be a good place to meet paramedics?
I am guessing since the plane is so big, if they stayed there on the alpha part of the taxiway then the plane plus the medical trucks would be blocking other planes from taxiing to their gates. The plane was going to take off again after getting the passenger off the plane so they weren’t going to a gate themselves.
I wish one comes to Seattle one day
We had a divert in SEA for fuel almost a year ago. It was a DXB-LAX ferry that experienced a lot of head wind over Russia, landed late at night and was gone early in the morning.
Blasphemy! ;)
How often do you normally post these videos?
Every two days or so.
Medical emergency, routine operation. Priority given to the medical emergency. Normal day at the office!
well, not quite. with a 380 you have to consider where it physically can and can't go simply due to weight and size restrictions. good example in this video was the pilot pointing out that he could only use the A1 and A2 exits. The reason will be exactly that: size and/or weight. ATC should defer to that if they don't know any better - which they clearly didn't. Remember, this thing has a max take off weight of 1.2 *million* lbs and can be up to 890,000 lbs when landing.
@@iatsd What is lbs? Can you do that in kilograms? 😉
@@guyseeten2755 Yes, I can do it in kg.
What was the emergency that the passenger had I like to know more about the emergency
Not sure why the BA pilot requested meters. The UK definitely still uses miles, yards and feet.
From the other comments, this is supposed to be English sense of humor
Tower classified A380 as heavy😂😂
OPS 44: "Whaa whaa whaa whaa whaa.... whaa whaa whaa whaa whaa."
Tower: "copy"
a yard and a metre are very similar aren't they?
Quite. 1 yard=0.9 meters.
Y'all git er done ✅😸😸
Maybe it's because pilots are very well educated but whenever you fly on either Virgin or BA, the British pilots always sound that posh.....🇬🇧✌
This guy has never experienced an A380 (super) or speedbird😂😂
50 yards = 45.72 metres
Why didn't they have the ambulance down off the end of the runway (30L) to save time from having to back taxi
Big Foot because the airport authority didn't want them to block that runway and taxiways.
Good thing the pilots are absolutely on top of it cause tower had no clue where they could go on the field
Clueless? Because we DONT GET A380s!!! Idiot. MAC owns the airport so they decide where it goes. You dont live in MN or work there so you wouldnt know like i do. Troll.
Don't offend.
Yep. The taxiing routes were all planned by the pilots
We get at least 6 a380s here a day at KLAX :)
Anyone know why they need to do a runway check after an a380 takeoff/landing?
Due to its weight, A380's require reinforced taxiways, and possibly runways, too. I presume they don't have such at KMSP.
So what do passengers who have medical emergencies have to do in this instance when they're taken to a hospital overseas? Would they have to book another flight home? In this case BA don't operate to this airport so I'd imagine they'd have to book a connecting flight?
Jordan Lucky yeah I guess this is where travel insurance becomes a smart idea
I know right. You don't want all that hassle
i know that the travel insurers make arrangements in similar situations...
i think they would either put them on with american since that is their alliance, or send them on DL10 straight to London on a 763
Delta or American because of the airline alliance.... They dont need to send a British Airways plane here.
I know that we should all be on metric for measuring. But there is no way my American brain could ever consider 40° really hot. Just can't do it. There is something special about the temperature going to triple digits.
Just think... our bodies are in the high 30s, 40 in a fever.
We now know where David Puddy ended up. E31
Is there a reason they had the plane come to the crew and remain on the runway?
the red phone uh oh
The way they are beating around the bush, probably a dead person. It happens a lot.
It is SUPER! Not Heavy!
minami kotori ....heavy means fully loaded...
The Red phone is that the one next to The Bat phone they use in a real emergency. lol
can you do MSP shut down where they close the airport for weather
jameskinglion ....every other day in the winter ❄️