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viking767
11th May 2012, 20:06
Just heard GUA airport closed due to aircraft accident . Any details?
(GUA= GuatemalaCity, Guatemala)
Airbubba
11th May 2012, 20:44
Here's a NOTAM that concurs with with what you've heard.
In customary 1930's coded teletype format:
A0828/12 NOTAMN
Q) MHTG/QFALC/IV/NBO/A/000/999/1434N09031W000
A) MGGT B) 1205111811 C) 1205112359
E) AD CLSD DUE ACCIDENT ACFT
CREATED: 11 May 2012 18:11:00
SOURCE: MHTGYNYX
RoyHudd
11th May 2012, 20:52
Very tricky place.
habubauza
11th May 2012, 21:16
Twitter pics looks like a Convair freighter. Looks like nose gear problem.
readywhenreaching
11th May 2012, 21:31
Convair 580 of IFL Group
JACDEC - Current News (http://www.jacdec.de/news/news.htm)
Agaricus bisporus
11th May 2012, 21:58
That link looks like an authoritative source...not. Reports the flight as being LHR to Istanbul, and had an accident in Guatemala. And we wonder why the Daily Wail manages to get things so wrong!
Hotel Tango
11th May 2012, 22:41
What have you been sniffing tonight Agaricus? The LHR-IST incident is the third item down in that link. The top item is the one refering to this Convair incident.
Agaricus bisporus
12th May 2012, 07:54
Nothing buddy, they've changed it since last night when the origin and destination were as I said. Now they are blank. Not exactly something I could make up, is it?