I know better then the pilots.. now I'm suing!

If you have an electrical problem, especially if you're on battery, you should land asap. If the problem happened 30 minutes out, then going to ORD was OK. If the problem happened more than 30 minutes out, the going to ORD is questionable. Landing at a suitable airport, is another lawyer term and is always a gray area that needs to be discussed further.

As far as the lady, her circumstances are very questinable, particluarly how she has no job right now on disablity but this is America after all. Suing is a national past time.
 
Socal321 said:
If you have an electrical problem, especially if you're on battery, you should land asap. If the problem happened 30 minutes out, then going to ORD was OK. If the problem happened more than 30 minutes out, the going to ORD is questionable. Landing at a suitable airport, is another lawyer term and is always a gray area that needs to be discussed further.
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Like DE727UPS said, the actual loss of battery power and the related buses was because they specifically put the switch in "BAT" and forced those buses to be powered from the battery. Consequently, that actually disconnects the main battery charger per system logic. I'm sure they had all the AC and DC power in the world from the engines, but the switch in that position will discharge the battery no matter what. If they put it back into the AUTO position, the standby buses go unpowered and you lose a lot of important stuff along with it.

Just a big crap sandwich!

(Coincidentally, we actually dissected this event pretty good in groundschool yesterday)
 
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