SkyWest plane makes emergency landing at Provo airport

[p1l07m4n]

I was walking across the flight line this afternoon, looked up, and was curious what a Skywest EMB-120 was doing on the ground in Provo. Here is the story, so far:

http://www.abc4.com/mostpopular/sto...-landing-at-Provo/GkaYxfEOkk6XkVHG3eJMeg.cspx

 

[BaronPete]

Proactive on the oil leak and nicely handled by the pilots.

 

[Lee D]

Nice job guys. Glad everything is OK.

 

[Muff3n]

Nice work by the crew to get everybody down safely. 20k a year is totally enough to cover what they go through at work......right! ?

 

[MikeD]

Nice work by the crew to get everybody down safely. 20k a year is totally enough to cover what they go through at work......right! ?

Definitely not.

I'd say a hefty payraise to somwhere about 20.5K is in order for this kind of excellent, aboveboard work.

 

[syntrikz]

well done to the crew

 

[Boris Badenov]

My God, landing on one engine? They're all lucky to be alive. If not for the steely-eyed airmanship of those pilots, the minnow would be lost.

 

[Bumblebee]

Definitely not.

I'd say a hefty payraise to somwhere about 20.5K is in order for this kind of excellent, aboveboard work.

actually they will get a whiz quiz....and a line check!

TFAYD!

 

[The Gardener]

My God, landing on one engine? They're all lucky to be alive. If not for the steely-eyed airmanship of those pilots, the minnow would be lost.

Bruhahaha!

 

[aloft]

I walked in on the tail end of a discussion led by one of SkyWest's training captains this afternoon, the thrust of which seemed to be "if you can make it to Provo, you can make it to Salt Lake."

Don't quote me on that.

 

[jtrain609]

I walked in on the tail end of a discussion led by one of SkyWest's training captains this afternoon, the thrust of which seemed to be "if you can make it to Provo, you can make it to Salt Lake."

Don't quote me on that.

I was thinking the same thing. Hell from FL220, you could probably glide to Salt Lake from Provo.

 

[meritflyer]

I walked in on the tail end of a discussion led by one of SkyWest's training captains this afternoon, the thrust of which seemed to be "if you can make it to Provo, you can make it to Salt Lake."

I was thinking the same thing. Hell from FL220, you could probably glide to Salt Lake from Provo.

No harm in a conservative decision.

 

[Bumblebee]

I walked in on the tail end of a discussion led by one of SkyWest's training captains this afternoon, the thrust of which seemed to be "if you can make it to Provo, you can make it to Salt Lake."

I was thinking the same thing. Hell from FL220, you could probably glide to Salt Lake from Provo.

No harm in a conservative decision.

If the first suitable airport in point of time was Provo, then Provo it is....you try to squeeze out SLC and have an issue with your other engine, and it's a long ugly way. If some "training captain" insinuated that (which I highly doubt) then he is squarely in the wrong. I would love to have that conversation...

and if you were 22000 over Provo, then it wouldn't be the best airport in point of time.

 

[meritflyer]

If the first suitable airport in point of time was Provo, then Provo it is....you try to squeeze out SLC and have an issue with your other engine, and it's a long ugly way.

I agree 100%.

 

[ColoradoPilot]

If the first suitable airport in point of time was Provo, then Provo it is....you try to squeeze out SLC and have an issue with your other engine, and it's a long ugly way. If some "training captain" insinuated that (which I highly doubt) then he is squarely in the wrong. I would love to have that conversation...

and if you were 22000 over Provo, then it wouldn't be the best airport in point of time.

Not only a long ugly way, but all the sudden your license is on the line. Regs say FIRST suitable airport, not the closest airport you'd like to go for convenience's sake.

 

[Avalon781ML]

Not only a long ugly way, but all the sudden your license is on the line. Regs say FIRST suitable airport, not the closest airport you'd like to go for convenience's sake.

Closest suitable could also mean that you have facilities to handle passengers, MX, and parts available at that airport... so it is possible that if interpreted literally SLC would have been the closest... Unless OO has a station at Provo (I don't know).
And just one more thought.... if you lose one engine and the other one starts to poop out on you the last thing going through my head would be fretting about a license.... you can always earn another license.... you can't earn another life (unless you are a buddhist or something like that... again I don't know).

 

[meritflyer]

Closest suitable could also mean that you have facilities to handle passengers, MX, and parts available at that airport... so it is possible that if interpreted literally SLC would have been the closest...

Key words:

"could also mean" and "interpreted".

No thanks. Provo it is.

 

[Bumblebee]

Closest suitable could also mean that you have facilities to handle passengers, MX, and parts available at that airport... so it is possible that if interpreted literally SLC would have been the closest... Unless OO has a station at Provo (I don't know).

You are right in many situations you could select your divert airport based on mx passengers and all, but on one engine I would be hard pressed to make and argument to continue to SLC.

 

[Lee D]

What Bumblebee said.

Obviously I wasn't there, but IMO Provo was a good, very conservative choice. A bit of a hassle for the company? Sure. Yet less variables for the crew to face both in the air and afterward. Honestly, I doubt they will get any flak for that choice.

 

[Avalon781ML]

@ Bumblebee and Meritflyer..

I don't know anything about either airport or the state of Utah.... I am just commenting on what I would take into consideration for a place to land.... for all I know Provo could be unattended, super short runways, special ops airport, and socked in with snow at this time of year....