Whats going on with the Manchester TMA?

[Sky Conductor]

Whats going on with the Manchester TMA..everything delayed! Equipment?

[Le Bob]

Due to a fire alarm the lower floors of the tower at Manchester were evacuated which included the TMA people. False alarm and all seemed back to normal after about 20 mins.

[chiglet]

It's happened twice during one shift pattern. It's SOP to evacuate none essential personell, [people on a break] and to stop deps from parent a/fs [and Manch, of course] in case of a "Full Evac".
Hope this helps

[Penworth]

Yeah we were the last aircraft to land before the approach controllers scarpered from the building - we were told that in the event of a missed approach we would need to fly a visual circuit due to no radar! Unfortunately the aircraft in front of us vacated promptly so we were denied the opportunity ;) by the time we had taxxied in the alarm seemed to be over.

[Mercenary Pilot]

Didn't this happen a couple of weeks ago too? :confused:

[octavian]

Ah Penworth, missed an opportunity there. Still it was a nice landing. No base jumping required.

[ZOOKER]

Allegedly, The Red Barron was amongst the evacuees :}:}!