AC34 SYD/YVR reporting fire onboard.

[Trevor Sinclair]

Air Canada is reportedly dumping fuel due to the detection of a fire onboard over Sydney. Has anyone heard any more on this, I received a very brief message a few minutes ago.

[Danny Rizk]

Just heard on the news, expected to land shortly...

[patrick woodward]

Fuel dump complete.... Pan declared, returning to Sydney.

[patrick woodward]

On descent now for 34L.... local services on standby.

[Maikha Ly]

Listening now on LiveATC.net - http://www.liveatc.net/search/?icao=yssy

[Craig Lindsay]

its over hornsby now One of the galleys is on fire which cant be contained

[Tim Bowrey]

C-FIUA is the aircraft on decent 3,000ft.

[Chris Q]

can see it on FR24 coming back now

hope its all good!

[Mark T]

Hi Trevor

Just checked on Basestation and Air Canada has done a big loop and now returned to Sydney. Currently at 5000 feet.

Registration is C-FIUA

Cheers
Mark

[Tim Bowrey]

Cleared to land 34L. I saw it from my house fly past it looked normal and the pilots didnt sounded stressed at all so sounds all good.

[Ryan N]

watching the landing now on Sky NEws.

[James G.]

It should have just landed on 34L.

[Michael Mak]

Just landed and transferred to Ground 126.5

[Trevor Sinclair]

Thanks guys. Watched on planefinder and listened on http://www.liveatc.net/search/?icao=yssy

[Trevor Sinclair]

Air Canada now claiming was not a fire, but smoke from an oven. Not sure how that would have been deemed "uncontainable".

[Maikha Ly]

This made it live on Ch7 news
http://au.news.yahoo.com/nsw/latest/a/-/newshome/9930403/air-canada-flight-fire-sydney/2/#comments

I'll tell you what, the narrow minded comments of cyberspace (Found at the bottom) can easily infuriate!

[Jacob P]

Another classic example of media over-reacting to a relativley minor incident. Could only imagine what it'd be like if it was a QF aircraft :rolleyes:

[Nigel C]

its over hornsby now One of the galleys is on fire which cant be contained

I'm curious as to where you got this info from...

The pilot told the ARFF on 131.0 that any smoke dissipated once the power was disconnected from the galley oven.

Aircraft has been refuelled and expects to depart this afternoon.

[Tim Bowrey]

Lining up On 34L now for departure.

And departed.

[Chris Q]

Nigel - that info was on the news websites...of course!

So she has gone back to the motherland hey?

[David N]

I went to listen to the ATC Achive but No File was Found.
Is the correct time it first made radio contact around 0730 UTC?


Thanks

[Jason H]

It landed around 12.15 which is 0215 UTC so probably from around 0200z would work quite well.

That Ch7 breaking news clip was a waste of everyone who was watching's time in my opinion. Joke.

[Justin L]

May I ask why you think the Channel 7 clip was a joke Jason? It's definitely newsworthy, and when they need to go live to the newsroom with breaking news and not much information, how else should they handle it?

[Jacob P]

Hey Justin,

have to agree with you on that one. I mean look at QF32 engine explosion, initial reports were indicating that the whole aircraft exploded and then as more information came to hand, the story developed further.

[Jason H]

I think words like "full scale emergency" when it was a PAN call is over the top. I am aware it was a breaking news story and information is unclear, but it is misleading...but I guess we know what the media is like in these situations. The article on that link also says "emergency services were not required". It seems as though the reporter just said things that she would assume was happening, rather than knowing what was happening. I'm sure they have people checking all this stuff. I think that if they didn't have the chopper there to film the landing, it would most likely have been a small mention in the bulletin.

[Lee G]

Got to love the Daily Telegraph though ... today's edition on Page 2 ... a small picture of Ac34 inset into a larger picture of what they claimed was AC34 dumping fuel.

Look closely at the "AC34" aircraft - it actuallly an overflying SQ 777 which passed overhead 5 minutes after AC34 arrived back in Sydney.

And the mainstream press wonder why they are becoming increasingly irrelevant in today's connected world - they couldn't even get it right 12 hours after the event which is when they would have finalised the layout for the paper!