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Old 24th Jun 2008, 23:09
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Thumbs up ICAO rules to re-open Toncontín

This is a very quick translation of the news, sorry !!!
More interesting, and safer, approaches coming !!!
Please comment on the 757 braking information.


Honduras
24/06/2008

ICAO rules to open Toncontín

The 170 passenger planes will land again.

ICAO technical specialists conducted an overflight by helicopter in the capital to verify the conditions of the runway.

Aircraft category C and D may be landing at Toncontín airport again, with some safety regulations not very different from those that were being implemented by airlines, according to the preliminary report of the International Civil Aviation Organization, ICAO.

The results of the investigation that ICAO practiced in the terminal must be delivered today to President Zelaya.

Toncontín remains closed by order of Zelaya for aircraft with passenger capacity above 42 since May 30, when an Airbus Taca failed in his attempt for landing and departed the runway, killing 5 people and injuries to 89 others.

It is suitable

The most important conclusion that brings the report is that Toncontín qualifies for operating, and maintaining the same difficulties in the process of approximation of the planes.

As it is known, the findings are intended to propose that it is better than landing the Airbus-319 and not in the Airbus-320 at Toncontín, the first one since they can reduce the speed of descent easier. These two aircraft can accommodate about 170 passengers.

Similarly, it is advisable that other airlines will carry out the same landing procedures manual of American Airlines and Continental Airlines.

Another proposal that would appear in the study is that it defines a single weight of the plane to land at Toncontín. "If many passengers are carried it could offset the weight carrying less fuel or less baggage, not to exceed the weight that would be defined", revealed a Government House source who requested anonymity.

Results

Boeing 757
American and Continental used, inter alia for landing at Toncontín, Boeing 757 aircraft types, which brake more effectively than the Airbus.

Weather
It looks to establish new regulations authorizing the entry and departure of aircraft according to climatic conditions.

Source: La Prensa, Honduras
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