Flair passengers had a scare when Montreal landing was aborted before D.C. crash

A Flair Airlines Boeing 737 Max pitchy aborted a landing astatine Montreal-Trudeau International Airport connected Wednesday aft a backstage pitchy unexpectedly remained connected a runway wherever it was preparing to land.

The incident, which unnerved Flair’s passengers, occurred conscionable hours earlier 67 radical were killed astatine Reagan Washington National Airport erstwhile a subject chopper struck an American Airlines determination rider pitchy mid-air successful the worst U.S. aviation catastrophe successful much than a decade.

The Montreal events were confirmed Friday by officials astatine Flair Airlines, the Transportation Safety Board of Canada and NAV Canada, the backstage non-profit corp that manages aerial postulation power astatine airports crossed the state and 18 cardinal km of Canadian airspace.

The 2 authorities agencies and the hose said the series of Montreal events did not correspond a “near-miss” concern and passengers were astatine nary clip successful danger.

On the contrary, they said what happened successful Montreal and however the aviation players responded successful a coordinated mode shows however good Canada’s aviation information strategy worked to support passengers safe.

“There was nary hazard of collision,” NAV Canada spokesperson Maryam Amini said.

Flair Airlines Flight 1101 was flying from Fort Lauderdale, Florida to Montreal-Trudeau and was connected its last attack and preparing to land.

The occupation was a 2nd craft which remained unexpectedly connected the tarmac astatine the Dorval airport. It was a Bombardier Challenger 3500 firm pitchy registered successful Mexico, TSB spokesperson Nic Falco said.

The incidental forced the Flair Airlines pitchy formation unit to scrub their landing, powerfulness up their 2 LEAP engines and summation velocity and altitude portion performing what is called “a go-around” supra and astir the airport. It was capable to subsequently onshore safely erstwhile the Challenger pitchy near the area.

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The Flair 737 formation unit followed instructions from the NAV Canada Montreal aerial postulation controllers aft they saw the different craft remained connected their intended runway.

“In this case, the craft up took longer than expected to exit the runway, which happens from clip to time, and the controller instructed the craft to execute the mean missed attack procedure, which is simply a modular and harmless process successful this situation,” Amini said.

Added TSB’s Falco: “In this case, determination was nary usurpation of separation (of aircraft) standards, nor was determination a concern compromising the information of the aircraft. This was a go-around conducted successful accordance with modular operating procedures.”

Falco said though the TSB was informed of the incidental successful NAV Canada’s regular reports to the  government, TSB has not initiated an authoritative investigative enactment into the matter. That’s due to the fact that the 2 craft remained much than the minimum region isolated required nether Canadian regulations.

Flair Airlines is simply a Canadian low-cost hose headquartered successful Edmonton which operates a tiny fleet of Boeing 737 Max jets and Boeing 737 Next Generation aircraft.