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Anyone know why Leeds is shut?
flybar
7th Jun 2010, 17:33
Small aircraft off the end of the runway - no further info
Robert1992
7th Jun 2010, 17:43
Citation crashed and burst into flames in a field off the runway. That's all I know from a friend who works at the airport.
OpsAdmin
7th Jun 2010, 17:49
Local news is reporting light aircraft bursting into flames whilst attempting take off - 2 "passengers"
Dealt with by AFS
Coffin Corner
7th Jun 2010, 17:55
Which runway was that? If that was off 14 that's going to hurt really bad.
zoom-to-the-skies
7th Jun 2010, 17:57
It was off the end of 32, I believe.
Leezyjet
7th Jun 2010, 18:48
On BBC website now :-
BBC News - Two rescued as aircraft overshoots Leeds airport runway (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/leeds/10260026.stm)
:)
M100S2
7th Jun 2010, 21:38
reg N646VP ...... Funny thing is, around five miles away away from the incident we missed most of the forecast rain today and for an hour or so before the incident and about an hour and a half afterwards it was a perfect summer evening. So they can't really blame the weather and standing water shouldn't be an issue.
HXdave
7th Jun 2010, 21:51
leezyjet, interesting post there.
following your link to the current BBC website (as at 22:49), on the most read stories on the right hand side of the page, there is a link to a story covering 'Flaming aircraft comes off runway'. Oh My God, i thought, i wonder what this could be. as it turns out, its the same story. how a few words by a journalist can change the context of a story.........
DX Wombat
7th Jun 2010, 23:18
As I have posted elsewhere - engine fire at take off, lots of bits of debris (which needed to be recorded and photographed) lying around the 32 threshold, aircraft now roosting in a tree off the end of 14, both pilots mercifully ok. Airfield open again by about 20:30 local although some had landed and departed a little earlier as they were able to cope with the reduced TODA.
Groundloop
8th Jun 2010, 08:33
some had landed and departed a little earlier as they were able to cope with the reduced TODA.
For landing aircraft it would have been a reduced LDA:ok:
adambro
8th Jun 2010, 15:22
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4026/4681845759_86530c9e35.jpg (http://flickr.com/gp/aebrookes/E9J3Fb)
Taken around midday today. It's gone off the end of 14 and ended up in the trees after crashing through the perimeter fence.
DX Wombat
10th Jun 2010, 00:37
For landing aircraft it would have been a reduced LDA Groundloop :ok: I had hoped that most people would realise that that was implicit in what I had written, but at this, and any similar, hour of the morning I don't always think straight. :O