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Old 16th Jan 2014, 21:12
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torsen
 
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Hello all,

I was in the terminal when this incident happened. I saw some of the damage firsthand the next day but we were shooed away when we got our cameras out.

The ground floor of the airport flooded almost the exact second the Virgin plane landed.

At daylight the next morning, there were LD3s all over one end of the runway, about 30 of them.

I "heard" that when the Virgin plane came in, that the tower could not see the runway visibility was so poor. Hard to believe, I know.


Here is a video I took from a helicopter flying into UVF a few days later:

https://vimeo.com/84353238

You can see the Virgin A330, LD3s and a lot of the dirt/silt that was all over the runway and taxiways.

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