Flight Abort ??

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                        The other night I was watching FlightRadar24.com.       I find it an interesting site to see what is going on at any particular A/P.

           Anyway, I was watching the action at CYYZ the other evening and among the A/C moving around the A/P was a BA 777 that was taxiing to the active in a line with LOT and a couple of West Jet 737's.  They moved to the active which was  RW 23.    The 777 stopped when it was at the RW while another A/C  departed.    It then moved onto the RW and started its roll, at about 80 knots the A/C symbol stopped  moving while still on the RW. In a few seconds it started to move again at about 8- 13 knots and at the first turnoff it turned off the RW and slowly taxied  onto a taxiway parallel to 23 until it reached the intersection of a taxiway parallel to 33  it then sort of siddled around there  very slowly and then stopped just off the taxiway [sort of] . I watched it for quite a while and it never moved, other A/C you could see taxied around it.

          If I was to guess what happened is, that he aborted the TO,  cleared the RW and tried to return to the gate ? but, couldn't make it, so stopped and was waiting for Ground service. 

         

        Do you folks think that's what happened

             

          I find this site very interesting and its cool to watch for an flight you know of in particular, approach from miles out, land and taxi to the terminal. while sometimes the A/C are mislabelled obviously. By and large the depiction is accurate.   

                              Cheers, Carm.

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Anybody's guess Carm. Could be for any number of reasons. Maintenance, problem passenger, departure slot moved, etc., etc.

[pivo11]

Well, now, that's an interesting story.  Not so long ago I was on a flight from Frankfurt to Chicago in a 777 and when we got to the runway to begin the roll the engines were cranked up to max, in the way that they do, but before the brakes were released, everything was shut down.  Everyone sat there in silence for some time before the captain said we would be returning to the terminal because of "engine problems".  It took better than three hours to fix, something about a missing part, I dunno.  It was a nervous takeoff. 

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Missing part? Did you check to see if they had 2 engines out there??? Just a thought

Thing is Fritz, the pilot's generally speaking, aren't have as little, if not less so, interest in dying than you do. They have the power, and will use it, to postpone/cancel/scrub a flight if something isn't right. The other thing too with the really modern machines like the 777, if something's not working, it gets transmitted back to the Dispatcher (or somewhere in Operations) that something's gone wrong, and the pilots could be in deep doo-doo if they take off anyway. So things are pretty safe. If they clear the flight to go, you know that at least on takeoff, you're good.

[Bushpounder]

I heard they ran out of French Roast and had to go back.

BP;)

[olderndirt]

Believe it was the left mag on #1 - excessive drop.