THIS VIDEO IS A RECONSTRUCTION OF THE FOLLOWING SITUATION IN FLIGHT:
09-JUL-2022. An American Airlines Boeing 737-800 (B738), registration N938AN, performing flight AAL2304 / AA2304 from Washington Reagan National Airport, DC (USA) to Chicago O'Hare International Airport, IL (USA) after departure reported fuel imbalance, declared and emergency for suspected fuel leak and decided to divert to Washington Dulles International Airport, DC (USA).
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COMMENTS: American 2304 was cleared to climb out of Reagan National Airport but during the climb the pilot called controller.
AAL2304: 2304, we need to go to Dulles right now.
DEPARTURE: American 2374, roger and say the reason, maintain just 7000.
AAL2304: 7000, we get a fuel imbalance problem with our right wing. So I’m gonna declare an emergency. We need assistance now.
DEPARTURE: American 2304, roger… heading 270.
AAL2304: 270, American 2304.
DEPARTURE: American 2304, turn left heading 200.
AAL2304: Alright left 200, American 2304.
DEPARTURE: American 2304, Dulles is on north configuration. It’ll be either RW 1 left, right or center.
AAL2304: Alright, American 2304, give us a minute. We need a vector to the left. We’re going here south-west. We’re gonna troubleshoot here for a second.
DEPARTURE: Roger.
DEPARTURE: American 2304, when you got a second?
AAL2304: 2304, go ahead.
DEPARTURE: How much further do you need and just souls and fuel on board?
AAL2304: Alright, 2304, we need to go to Dulles and… souls on board…
DEPARTURE: Roger.
DEPARTURE: American 2304, it’ll be up to you which runway you want: left, right or center.
AAL2304: American 2304… we got a… we still got a lot of fuel on board… We'll be taking 1R ...
DEPARTURE: Roger.
AAL2304: It'll probably be another 5 minutes before we get vectored...
DEPARTURE: Okay, not a problem.
AAL2304: …get us over there, if you want.
DEPARTURE: Okay.
DEPARTURE: American 2304, contact Potomac Approach on 128.52, good day.
AAL2304: 128…
AAL2304: Potomac Approach, American 2304, 7000, on the heading.
APPROACH: American 2304, welcome and good morning. Do we need to burn fuel first?
AAL2304: Negative, we have a suspected fuel leak off our right wing, so if we can get vectors back in. Probably just need a couple more minutes. But we’ll be planning RW 1R into Dulles.
APPROACH: American 2304, no problem at all, turn right heading 280, descend and maintain 4000 and I'll have vectors to 1R. Just let me know whenever you are ready for the turn on final.
AAL2304: Heading 280, descend to 4000, American 2304.
APPROACH: American 2304, what’s your fuel remaining?
AAL2304: American 2304, we have in pounds 3… 31000 pounds of fuel and if you need time, it's like... we'll go with 5 hours.
AAL2304: With the fuel leak we'll go down to 2.
APPROACH: Roger that.
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THE MAIN VALUE IS EDUCATION. This reconstruction will be useful for actual or future air traffic controllers and pilots, people who plan to connect life with aviation, who like aviation. With help of this video reconstruction you’ll learn how to use radiotelephony rules, Aviation English language and general English language (for people whose native language is not English) in situation in flight, which was shown. THE MAIN REASON I DO THIS IS TO HELP PEOPLE TO UNDERSTAND EVERY EMERGENCY SITUATION, EVERY WORD AND EVERY MOVE OF AIRCRAFT.
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2) I find communications of ATC unit for the period of time I need.
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4) I find a flight path of selected aircraft.
5) I make an animation (early couple of videos don’t have animation) of flight path and aircraft, where the aircraft goes on his route.
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7) Together with my comments (voice and text) I edit and make a reconstruction of emergency, non-standard and interesting situation in flight.
