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Sydney Airport tower fire
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-03-...erted/10952890
Emergency services were called around 11.40am to the air traffic control centre. Fire and Rescue NSW said 20 people needed to be evacuated from the building. |
SY Radio 2GB reporting at 12 noon (SY Time) a smoke alarm was the trigger, but no actual fire located as yet.....
Cheers |
SY Radio 2GB now reporting nil fire located, arrivals are 'being processed', although at a 'slower rate', departures still delayed as yet.....
Cheers |
Where’d they get all flights diverted from? ATC told one Jetstar plane he was only looking at a 10 minute delay. Herc was doing laps overhead but has now gone now gone back to Richmond. |
Did they just want a ride down the helter skelter?
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An overheating computer let the magic smoke out.
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What was the C-130 doing orbits for? What was it needed for? |
Hope all the guys/girls are ok.
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Originally Posted by ACMS
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What was the C-130 doing orbits for? What was it needed for? |
I thought all the SYD TWR transmitters were in the Blue Mountains? |
I don't work at Sydney so can't say for sure, but typically the towers antennae is on top of the tower or very near by. They may have a repeater in the Blue Mountains, or that may be the TCU site.
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Departures Radar 135.1 is the nominated "Control" frequency during a contingency, unfortunately they couldn't get two-way comms with the aircraft on the ground at Sydney. Not sure where the 135.1 transmitter / receiver is located, probably the other Sydney Tower, so was it a coverage issue, equipment issue, a new VCS issue or an operator error?
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Originally Posted by RickNRoll
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An overheating computer let the magic smoke out.
Tootle pip!! ** For those of you who understand the Joseph Lucas and Sons Ltd theory of automotive electrics. |
Nah, the English never went into computers because they couldn't figure out how to make them leak oil. (Spent my formative years troubleshooting Lucas “prince of darkness” headlamps,ignition,horn,gauges. And apologising to the parents for the oil slick on the driveway.) |
Must have been a Dick Smith computer. They create a lot of noise and smoke in an aviation environment.
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Affordable safety
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Lucas = Leave Us Cold And Stranded
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Didn’t Lucas Industries teach Magneti Marelli everything they knew ? |
Surely Paul Everingham can't be correct when the says there's No Plan B for airport
"It won't do Australia's image much good. Sydney Airport, our top gateway, has no emergency control tower facility ("Flights delayed at Sydney Airport after smoke detected in control tower", March 29). The epitome of laid-back perhaps?" - Paul Everingham, Hamilton. SMH 30/3/2019 |
It’s happened at LHR too - as recently as last year. They didn’t appear to have any ‘backup’ aerdrome control facility either - I daresay that it’d be fairly impractical to have any form of replacement tower unless Airservices rolls out the remote tower concept as a backup capability. |
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