Singapore Airlines Flight Delays & Disruptions

[loldude333]

I wonder what caused this........thankfully engine casings have Kevlar which prevents the broken blades from penetrating the fuselage.

[flyguy]

Looks pretty bad damage to the engine with the blade separation. Believed as there are limited facility at Mandalay airport that SIA needs to ferry an engine there too to replace the damage one and fly it back for repairs.

[9V-SPL]

SQ449|07FEB operated by 9V-SSE from Dhaka suffered an engine failure and forced to land in Mandalay, Myanmar.

http://www.straitstimes.com/singapor...engine-failure

UPDATE: 9V-SQN is currently en-route to MDL as SQ8850 to pick up the stranded passengers.

The Aviation Herald picked up on this incident with a picture of the damage to engine #1:


http://avherald.com/h?article=4b4adfe3&opt=0

[Bon]

SQ449 diverted Mandalay, Myanmar

http://www.straitstimes.com/singapor...engine-failure

The plane was SSE and SQN was sent to rescue the passengers.

[SQfanatic]

Also FR24, iChangi and SQ's site/app retimed the schedules for flights departing between 11-2pm (It showed On Schedule rather than delayed). Not something I've seen occur often for flights.

[SQfanatic]

To avoid the confusion of having two SQ1s operating on the same day.

Yup. Wednesday's SQ2 aircraft will turn back as SQ1. However, SQ601 will operate the following days according to FR24: 8th and 9th Feb ex-SFO besides the past 2 days.

Similarly, CX is the only other airline that in which when the Northern Summer schedule ends, they have CX2873 the first night then the rest of the nights they have CX873, and when Summer schedule comes at the end of Mar, the next 873 flight will only operate on Monday early morning (past midnight SFO time) to similarly avoid having two CX873s

[9V-SPL]

Retimed to avoid airspace closures in SIN cos of the airshow. Renumbered not sure why.

To avoid the confusion of having two SQ1s operating on the same day.

[ell3]

SQ 001 (SFO-HKG-SIN) has been operating as SQ 601 from Feb 6-8 with an earlier departure time in SFO and HKG. Anyone know what's happening?

Retimed to avoid airspace closures in SIN cos of the airshow. Renumbered not sure why.

[SQ002]

SQ 001 (SFO-HKG-SIN) has been operating as SQ 601 from Feb 6-8 with an earlier departure time in SFO and HKG. Anyone know what's happening?

[SQfanatic]

Many SQ flights were delayed anywhere between 2 hours and several hours. SQ318 and SQ866 departed late, but SQ326 managed to get out on time. SQ494 actually got delayed 7 hours and made it back only yesterday afternoon at 1pm. Evening flights were delayed for at least 2 hours, SQ2 only left around 8:30PM and made it back to SFO only at 9PM, with still a 2 hour turnaround.

Obviously the incident had caused runway congestion due to what happened at the airshow.

[SQavgeek]

Just a bit of trivia: back in December of 2011, an SQ 744F was involved in a runway excursion at Changi Airport, resulting in a runway closure. I recall some planes did divert to Paya Lebar airbase. A quick search on the interwebs turned up this article: https://sg.news.yahoo.com/accident-a...s-flights.html

Edit: Coverage from the all-authoritative AVHerald: http://avherald.com/h?article=44706cf6/0000

A year ago an SQ 777 was diverted to Paya Lebar Airport for whatever reason. https://twitter.com/airlivenet/statu...04019862061058

[9V-SPL]

Just a bit of trivia: back in December of 2011, an SQ 744F was involved in a runway excursion at Changi Airport, resulting in a runway closure. I recall some planes did divert to Paya Lebar airbase. A quick search on the interwebs turned up this article: https://sg.news.yahoo.com/accident-a...s-flights.html

and just another (sad) trivia; that particular 744F (as TC-MCL) crashed as TK6491 on 16JAN17.

[9V-SPL]

SQ449|07FEB operated by 9V-SSE from Dhaka suffered an engine failure and forced to land in Mandalay, Myanmar.

http://www.straitstimes.com/singapor...engine-failure

UPDATE: 9V-SQN is currently en-route to MDL as SQ8850 to pick up the stranded passengers.

[9V-SML]

CAG issued a statement stating that 170 flights were delayed for at least an hour during the period of runway closure. Was just wondering had CAG considered basing these aerobatics jets at Paya Lebar airbase rather than Changi ?
Even if the risk factor of something like this happening was considered low, has CAG or CAAS considered opening Paya Lebar Airbase for commercial traffic to land in case of events like this ?

Just a bit of trivia: back in December of 2011, an SQ 744F was involved in a runway excursion at Changi Airport, resulting in a runway closure. I recall some planes did divert to Paya Lebar airbase. A quick search on the interwebs turned up this article: https://sg.news.yahoo.com/accident-a...s-flights.html

Edit: Coverage from the all-authoritative AVHerald: http://avherald.com/h?article=44706cf6/0000

[flyguy]

even if not for this S Korean plane incident, there will be quite a few delays in a day from since last week to this coming sunday due to the air show acrobatic displays and the airspace around Changi will be closed 3 times daily from mid moring till afternoon. This happens everytime during the aerospace exhibition. On Paya Lebar airport, it does not look like an alternate airport for commercial planes, hence we see why commercial planes are diverted to Senai or Batam when needed.