• AUDIO: The message to the passengers of the pilot of the Air Canada plane that is going to land emergency in Barajas: "We have to get rid of fuel"

The Spanish Union of Airline Pilots s (Sepla) has considered that the long time that the damaged Air Canada plane is spending to land again - predictably, at the Adolfo Suarez Madrid-Barajas airport - due to a technical problem is "good ", since it represents a symptom that there is no" vital urgency "to land as soon as possible.

This has been indicated by Javier Martín Chico, from the technical department of the Sepla in statements to the 24-hour channel collected, who has indicated that this way of operating shows that the situation "is under control" and that what is being sought is to reduce the weight for That is adequate to land.

Martín Chico said that it is "too soon" to still have a hypothesis of what has happened and said that we must wait until there is an investigation in this regard to know if the damage has occurred in a wheel or in a fixed part of the system of landing.

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He also stressed that the usual procedure is to divert the aircraft to an area where there is not much air traffic so that it is waiting while consuming fuel and that once it does it will have a prepared runway where operations have stopped.

Martín Chico said that these types of situations "are unusual" and said that the long time that remains in the air must be analyzed as the situation "is controlled", since if there were any emergency the plane would quickly land again, since the Barajas airport has "very long" runways in which the maneuver could be made above the maximum landing weight.

The member of the technical department of Sepla said that right now the plane will be assessing the damage and preparing for landing , in a maneuver for which he said that both the pilots and the airport "are prepared."

In addition, he noted that in these cases the selected runway could be covered with foam to cushion some of the landing gear legs bending during the grounding operation.

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