Twin Cessna saved by Air Greenland crew.

Reminded me of the Charlie Brown incident, scene where the german guy escorts the american bomber out of germany and away from AA, and gives him a final salute.
(Book is called “A Higher Call: …” which I highly recommend)

So they already have the plot outline for the next “Sullenberger” movie.

Those Cessna pilots are very lucky… I would not want to attempt Narsarsuaq in low IMC without any onboard navigation, on a single engine.
Was I reading too quickly or did it not mention they type of twin Cessna?
When I did the crossing a couple months ago, time did seem to move at a slower rate during the over water legs.

So they lost 1 engine, cabin pressurization, 2 horizons out of 3, the single GPS, all in the same flight?
Should this plane have been flying altogether?

Many of the failures will have been related. But this is why you don’t push Greenland weather.

The Cessna crew, performing a ferry flight [my bold]

So they lost 1 engine, cabin pressurization, 2 horizons out of 3, the single GPS, all in the same flight?
Should this plane have been flying altogether?

Many of the failures will have been related

No sh*t Sherlock

Ask any ferry pilot who does piston work across the Atlantic and he will tell you stories about the shagged heaps of junk he’s been asked to fly.

The smarter ones will decline the jobs which start at the US coast. Often these are planes which were abandoned by a previous ferry pilot who didn’t fancy a swim. You start way back over the US mainland so if the thing starts to fall apart, or burns 1qt every hour, it will hopefully happen over land.

Needless to say, disputes over payment are not unusual in that business.

But the ferry business attracts some “romantic” types… and the dreamers are mostly people who under-quote and run out of money along the route. I am sure the old-timers here will recall some epic slagging matches on a certain other site

Peter wrote:

But the ferry business attracts some “romantic” types…

I am not sure if these guys were normal ferry pilots. Normally they fly alone (after all, only one gets paid, one does not know how long it’s going to take and the overnights enroute, especially Greenland and Iceland are terribly expensive), but there were four people on board this aircraft.

What really puzzles me is the fact they had no backup navigation capability. A mobile phone with a basic navigation app would have been sufficient to guide them in the right direction…

I wonder what the combined bills for this adventure will amount to. Air Greenland will have to refund their passengers for the delay and they certainly will forward the invoice. And SAR helicopters and the Hercules which were dispatched don’t fly for free either.

Doesn’t seem normal. Looks like some guys deciding to ferry a plane with no real knowledge of what they were doing.

what_next wrote:

What really puzzles me is the fact they had no backup navigation capability. A mobile phone with a basic navigation app would have been sufficient to guide them in the right direction…

IIRC they had some backup. I recall an iPad being mentioned, perhaps something else as well. That really wasn’t the issue (although it didn’t help, I’m sure).

what_next wrote:

I wonder what the combined bills for this adventure will amount to. Air Greenland will have to refund their passengers for the delay and they certainly will forward the invoice.

I wonder too. This is why insurance at least covering SAR is mandatory. However, that flight was scrapped due to weather at destination and they returned to Nuuk IIRC. They knew of this possibility right from the start and were prepared to hold in hopes the weather improves (that Cessna approached when they were already holding).

what_next wrote:

I am not sure if these guys were normal ferry pilots.

Could have been the new owner ferrying it himself, perhaps inviting some friends for an adventure.