AMR Mayday Tonight 1/13

[Ex737Driver]

Good friend of mine was coming back from Liberia, CR and had made it over Virginia Keys when they heard an American Airlines call mayday on guard. They were apparently descending from 31000 to 15000 and had what they described as numerous failures/problems. Any info on this?

 

[av8tor19]

Hint:
Why would someone descend from 310 to 150?

 

[Thedude]

ummm...they ran out of columbian coffee

 

[ACL65PILOT]

Also isn't VA key down where the MSA is 15000'. If so there is some truth to that.

 

[Ex737Driver]

Also isn't VA key down where the MSA is 15000'. If so there is some truth to that.

Sorry, Virginia Keys is off the Florida coast from FLL. They were somewhere over the Atlantic. They were apparently far enough out that all land based radio could not hear the mayday and other aircraft were having to relay.

 

[FedExFlyer]

I'm sure Fox News will have the most accurate accounts of anything news related.............stay tuned

 

[McNugget]

Sorry, Virginia Keys is off the Florida coast from FLL. They were somewhere over the Atlantic. They were apparently far enough out that all land based radio could not hear the mayday and other aircraft were having to relay.

Virginia Key is near Key Biscayne, close to MIA. VKZ is the ID of the VOR. That is about all that is there.

 

[Quimby]

Hint:
Why would someone descend from 310 to 150?

any DEA drug balloons in that area?

 

[ACL65PILOT]

That is why I mentioned the 15K MSA. I think it is that way down there. Any idea if anytging came of this

 

[Flys4Fun]

Well, in looking at CNN there were no catastrophic plane crashes reported on near the US...unless the Bermuda Triangle claimed another victim

Maybe they just had a pressurization problem?