Early January morning, it's fallen approx 1 ft of snow during the night. Snow clearance team has cleared the runway, but only 2 taxiways from the apron. (The parallel is closed)
First departure calls for taxi, and is given via one of the 2 open ones, and onto the rwy via backtrack. As the kind soul I am, only the lights on the cleared twys are lit, to avoid the 737 going off the reservation.
When the 737 reaches the parallel, they turn 90 degrees to the left and goes full steam down the
dark parallel twy in
1 foot of snow........only to get stuck in a drift right away.
It was hard to find something appropriate to say!
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Female collage of mine experienced this:
Helicopter doing hover, 1 engine flyaways etc on the parallel TWY is told to land due tfc on final for the RWY. (To close for independent ops)
TWR: "Lynx land on Y, remain on GND"
Lynx: " WHY?"
TWR: "Trafiic on 2 mile final, land now"
Lynx: "Yeah, we can se him, he's no factor"
TWR: "Lynx, land IMMEDIATELY, you need to be on GND before he lands"
(Female collage is about to blow all the fuses at this point, feisty redhead and all!)
Lynx: "That is not necessary, we will keep clear"
Que 737 going missed at 0.5 miles for another 50nm of vectors.
She eventually kicked the Lynx over to the hangar pan and refused further flight, and gave a
very graphic debrief on the phone with the pilot of the Lynx later in the day!