Yesterday May 4, a FedEx flight had something going on at San Diego International KSAN that closed runway 27 and taxi way C for about 30min. Emergency vehicles were also on the runway. I have seen nothing on the news, airport PIO, or FedEx. Just wondering if you had anything. Edit this was between 5:15 and 5:45pm West Coast time
The slow zoom into Tasman1 just coming into frame, "seeing" the chaos ahead and saying "uuuuuh Centre we'd like to go to Melbourne please" is just too funny to me
For added context, Sydney is the biggest Australian airport, with the SYD-MEL route the 2nd busiest air route in the world, and the SYD-BNE route the 8th busiest. It had a massive knock on affect for all other Australian airports too!
@@MarksTournaments The busiest Domestic routes are the all busier than the top international routes, hence why i put in the world. I used these 2 sources which both say SYD-BNE is 8th. I guess it comes back to that old quote, "there are 3 types of lies. Lies, damned lies and statistics." www.traveller.com.au/worlds-busiest-airline-flight-routes-melbournesydney-now-worlds-second-busiest-h0e7ha and thenewdaily.com.au/life/travel/2019/03/27/busiest-flight-routes-australia/
@@Speedster___ most times, 2-3 folks should go down the stairs at a time so no one trips and gets hurt..or, just remain where you are until the alarm stops.
this is why communication is key. after the controller aired on freq what was occurring, pilots made every effort to land quickly. everyone working together to mitigate an unusual event. love it.
@@rawexplorer8373 I believe if this was a test alarm they wouldnt have evacuated the tower. (I know all tests evacuated, but not in the ATC Tower. Because this come with a lot's of plus cost to the airlines.)
Was at the airport during this evacuation waiting for a flight. Watched the fire service without knowing what was going on. Short delay to departure, no dramas.
I was at the Qantas business class lounge at the time at T1. waiting for my flight FJ911 from Nadi to land, I remember me sitting next to a tv with Flightradar24 on my iPad, I saw on the TV that the ATC was evacuated, It was a bit weird. My flight was still on hold circling around the sea. Luckily There wasn’t a delay for my flight to Nadi. I had a feeling that our flight will be delayed for like 30 minutes. But no delay.
Quantas 118 this is Air traffic control declaring a fire emergency, requesting vectors to the nearest exit. Air traffic control turn left heading 270, begin decent down the stairs and we’ll have fire and medical meet you there. Speed at your discretion.
Heads up on jfk tower just ordered Kuwait airlines 117 to go around harshly after he did not give proper read backs. Sounded pretty tense for a second you might want to check it out.
At 09:36 the approach controller gives the option to land at Sydney on a MBZ (Mandatory Broadcast Zone) basis, essentially a non-controlled airport procedure where aircraft broadcast their position and intentions on a common frequency. Aircraft become responsible for their own separation and sequencing. I wonder if any commercial airliners used this option?
Regional airlines in Australia do use this often at class G (CTAF) airports. Many controlled airports are also operational during certain (daylight) hours only, and revert to CTAF after hours... All pilots should be well aware of the procedures. ...
An Air Force Hercules who was in the area helped out too www.airforce.gov.au/news-and-events/news/air-force-c-130j-hercules-trojan-55-supports-sydney-air-traffic-control
Can I just say I admire your professionalism and cool headed thinking during this crisis? I now must fly to Australia and bring you doughnuts and beer.
Just curious but if you are a pilot aircraft, wouldn’t you just land vfr since when the tower closes I assume it’s like usa where it becomes Unicom or class E
8:12 Is it even allowed to file a flight plan without alternate? I thought planning for alternate and having enough fuel for it (on top of reserves) was mandatory.
yep, ref. from 2013 - pg80 www.atsb.gov.au/publications/investigation_reports/2013/aair/ao-2013-100/ Code grey forecast The ICAO Annex 3 - Meteorological Service for International Air Navigation does not permit the inclusion in a TAF of a probability of less than 30 per cent that a weather phenomenon, such as fog, may occur during the forecast period. In order to provide some airline operators an advance notice about such low probability weather conditions that may interrupt flight operations, the BoM issues an aerodrome weather briefing (AWB) product and, if applicable, a ‘code grey’ forecast. When a TAF is issued that is valid for the period 1800 to 2400 UTC (0400-1000 EST), any current ‘code grey’ forecast is superseded by that TAF. The availability of a code grey forecast is unique to Australia, and is used to highlight the possibility of weather conditions that airline operators may wish to consider in terms of flight planning. They are typically used in long haul operations due to the extended flight time between departure and arrival. **There is no regulatory requirement to carry alternate aerodrome fuel in the case of a code grey forecast and they are not routinely referred to by short haul flight crew or in the construction of flight plans for short haul domestic operations. **As such, there was no requirement for the crews of Velocity 1384 or Qantas 735 to obtain or account for a code grey forecast in their fuel planning for Adelaide. Additionally, the AWB for Adelaide included the potential for fog by way of a code grey, but the TAF issued at 1800 did not forecast fog. Based on the procedure that any current code grey is superseded by the 1800 to 2400 UTC TAF, the TAF issued at 1800 UTC for Adelaide would normally cancel the code grey forecast.
Diverting to Wollongong (Albion Park Airport) would have been fun, seeing as the Airport Open Weekend's on right now (Historic Aircraft Museum). Not a very long runway either and pretty minimal passenger handling capability (definitely NO International capability)
This reminds me of what happened when they had the earthquake in Alaska a few months ago they had to evacuate the tower and Anchorage and the tower staff literally evacuated the tower using portable air-to-ground radio coordinated go-arounds and other movement while outside for a. Of time it was the commercial version of Oshkosh
@@drmayeda1930 that was a quake in another location I think it was either Indonesia or the Philippines where one of the controllers stayed too long once the Quake started he couldn't get out in time started
Do you have atc from Fort Lauderdale international airport and Fort Lauderdale executive airport! This week is our air show and would love to hear all they’ve said
Scary really to think it can be permitted. I was taught early in to my PPL that you always have an alternative and know where you’re going to go if you have adverse wx etc. it seemed like they really had no idea where they were diverting to and my point was even though they hadn’t filed it, it doesn’t appear they briefed either. Thanks for your videos, VAS - they’re consistently great.
I have zero idea what are the proceedures, but maybe the flight was short, and with enough fuel, so they knew weather can't really suddenly change (and they knew it already on departure), plus abundance of airports they could divert to, so they didn't put it explicitly? Still weird tho.
At 1:06, sounds like he says "Via either a left base or Kurnell" rather than "or final" - Kurnell is a neighbouring geographical area (the peninsula on the other side of Botany Bay from the airport) Could be wrong, but definitely sounds like a "k" sound there.
I thought when you file a flight plan you are supposed to have a divert airport planned. I guess I was wrong, I was just a bit surprised that Air Calin didn't have a backup plan.
