Saturday 29 August 2015

Emirates A380 Diverts to Darwin



This wouldn't have happened yesterday whilst I was there would it; but this morning an Emirates A380, EK 415 enroute from Sydney to Dubai made a medical emergency diversion into Darwin. A6-EEG (CN 116) departed Sydney from 16L just after 6.12 am Sydney Time (20.12 UTC) heading for Dubai. Some kind of medical emergency occurred; and the decision was made to head to Darwin. EK 415 made a couple of fuel dumps (to reach its correct AUW limits) before landing on rwy 29 at 10.05 am Darwin Time, (00.05 UTC). 415 was on the ground for around 2 and 1/2 hours before departing again from runway 29 at 12.13 Darwin time (02.13 UTC)
(AUW, known as the all-up weight is the total aircraft weight at any moment during the flight or ground operation.)

The below images are supplied by Sid Mitchell and I thank him for sending them through to me.









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