Aurigny Off Rwy @ Brs

[Dash-7 lover]

Aurigny Aircraft Off The Rwy At Brs - A/c Went Off the side and Stuck In Mud - Noticed Another Thread About Ezy At Brs On 22nd! - No Other Details As Yet....

[SKY's4ME]

Is BRS Closed? Whats the situation now?

[pipertommy]

Must be,taking diversions here at Cardiff ezy 319 landed couple of mins ago.

[Dash-7 lover]

Correction - I've just had a divert to BHX - RWY is being resurfaced and there's a slippy patch in the middle that my Captain mentioned is quite smooth and they had 'problems' controlling the aircraft on takeoff with the x-winds......It sounds like the Aurigny a/c hit this patch and exited stage left onto the grass!!
a/c moved off at around 1345 - airfield should be open soon - ATR-72 I think

[Smudger]

Why has the word "issue" replaced the word "problem" in the English language?

[Dash-7 lover]

altered just for you...

[Fried_Chicken]

Bristol re-opened around 1440

FC

[Ranger 1]

Yaeh & just managed to get me lunch!:yuk:

[kuningan]

Aurigny (and certainly their passengers) not having a lot of fun today - Gatwick flights delayed by 96, 174 and 56 mins each, so far......anyone any idea whats up? I need to get off the rock on Sunday.......

[fj1]

Aurigny (and certainly their passengers) not having a lot of fun today - Gatwick flights delayed by 96, 174 and 56 mins each, so far......anyone any idea whats up? I need to get off the rock on Sunday.......

At a guess there a plane short !

[kuningan]

At a guess there a plane short !
ho! ho! - though since the Gatwick delays started before the BRS excursion I doubt thats the reason.......the first two delays were before the BRS flight left Guernsey, so something else was up......

[welkyboy]

Weather problems. Cross winds at Bristol and Gatwick are causing problems at both airfields, I surmise this was the cause of the ATR going farming at BRS.
It was interesting at Jer this AM 1000ft wind 210/40 surface wind 170/18 QNT30

[INSIDEVIEW]

Normal day ..if u a Channel Island Pilot u are used to these winds!!

[kuningan]

The BBC (so it must be true...:} ) says the excursion happened while taxiing....I wonder if Bliar was onboard......

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bristol/6217797.stm

[Jerbourg]

At a guess there a plane short !



2 Tech ATR's at GCI I believe. Aurigny are using ATR42 G-CDFF & Titan 737 G-ZAPM today....

[ICING AOA]

no spotters there to share us some pics, what a shame :{

anyway, what was the wind like ?

[Stop Stop Stop]

I landed at BRS tonight and it WAS pretty rough!!

I saw a (I think) My Travel 757 make a horrendous approach- it obviously got caught by a gust in the flare and 'wing-rocked' really badly. From my vantage point (in the staff car park) it could well have hit its No.2 engine or RH wing, it looked that low. It went around (thankfully)- did anyone else see it and has there been any further problems there? I trust it landed safely soon after.

[RoyHudd]

No 757's left at MyTravel, must have been another carrier.

[ATCO1987]

http://www.ukar.co.uk/cgi-bin/ukarboard/ikonboard.cgi?;act=ST;f=1;t=25772
For photos.

[Stop Stop Stop]

Could it have been a A321 or something? They look much the same and it was dark! The aircraft was moving quite fast, but it did look like My Travel.

[Rod Eddington]

Why has this been moved??

It has much more to do with News than it has to do with spotting

[speedbird_481_papa]

yea it Could well have been an airbus Stop.

i know MYT do use Airbusses. Evidently a 2nd ac has come off the runway now

[GBALU53]

Until the AAIB come out with what cause made the aircraft to do some farming we should not speculate.

Frome the pictures I have seen there might be some un reported gusts involved but I am not a met man.

So we should wait until the official report come out and see if certain ideas were correct?

[Standard Noise]

Frome the pictures I have seen there might be some un reported gusts involved but I am not a met man.

Are you inferring that ATC at Bristol do not report gusts? If so, I hope you have evidence to back up such a claim!
A met man you certainly are not, but I shall ask anyway, why do you think that only gusts are capable of affecting an a/c?

[Stone Cold II]

It was a FCA 757 that nearly hit the wing when it got caught by some nasty gusts. I was at the holding point and thought they had it. I have never seen such a near miss in all my years of flying. Flight deck did a fantastic job holding it together and getting it to climb. They tried a second approach but about 4 miles out when they received the current wind check they decided to divert, good call.

[kuningan]

Why has this been moved??
It has much more to do with News than it has to do with spotting

Good question - Bliar's plane misses a Taxiway and its 'news' - now not just one, but TWO a/c leave BRS runway in one day and its for us mere spotters.......

[BOAC]

We are merely the recipients of this thread ("I woz only following orders":) ).

All enquiries regarding the placing of this topic please to the admin link at the page bottom. It is not to be discussed here with posts.

[GBALU53]

Standardnoise

No I was not refering ATC not giving gusts.

The ATR72 especially in a cross wind can be a hand full with a combination of things, like the narrow track undercarriage and the narrow wing it has

If the reverse was used on landing and little braking due to a possible wet runway? the nose wheel stearring would not be as effective as a normal day landing from what I understand so one would require braking to keep weight on the nose wheel.

When the aircraft is parked on the apron on a windy day the aircraft bounces around like a roller coaster this is due to the undercarriage configureation.

Until the report comes out it is all speculation from the not so expert ones

[kuningan]

http://www.thisisguernsey.com/code/shownewsarticle.pl?ArticleID=001589

[PPRuNe Pop]

There is nothing that can be added here that is not already on the thread in R&N and this one is unsuitable to be merged there now.

So for good order and good housekeeping this thread is now closed.

Happy New Year