https://australianaviation.com.au/2018/09/air-niugini-says-all-on-board-rescued-after-737-lands-in-chuuk-lagoon/ Australia's Leading News Source in Aviation Wed, 19 Oct 2022 06:04:18 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://australianaviation.com.au/2018/09/air-niugini-says-all-on-board-rescued-after-737-lands-in-chuuk-lagoon/#comment-63000 Mon, 01 Oct 2018 00:39:12 +0000 http://australianaviation.com.au/?p=65459#comment-63000 Normal compliment (in Aus anyway) 2 + 5. Possibly someone in the jump and 3 others in the cabin. More than likely there may have been people on staff travel etc that were included.

]]> https://australianaviation.com.au/2018/09/air-niugini-says-all-on-board-rescued-after-737-lands-in-chuuk-lagoon/#comment-62840 Fri, 28 Sep 2018 12:13:06 +0000 http://australianaviation.com.au/?p=65459#comment-62840 So very relieved to hear everyone survived this ditching.
The article reports there were 11 crew onboard the B737-800!
They cannot ALL have been operating crew, surely?!
As I’m not aware of the frequency of the service, perhaps PX did have two crew complements onboard, one to operate the outbound flight/s and the other to work the two sectors back to POM?
Anyone know otherwise why there were so many crew on this plane? Just curious.

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