Home > U.S. Cathay Pacific Airliner Makes Emergency Landing in Aleutians
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airbubba, pix of the departure from Shemya where little can be seen out of the window, and in/from the terminal at Anchorage. I wondered if they were told, no photographing the installation at Shemya.
'Folks, the military requires that we pull down the cabin window shades while taxiing to avoid increased and potentially unhealthy radiation levels from the nearby Cobra Dane radar installation.'
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Ir was explained in a previous post but you apparently missed it. The runway was closed lengthwise. It was the same length, just half the width. That's pretty common for resurfacing at airports with a single runway. I went in there a couple of times while the construction was in progress. One problem with that is that the ILS becomes N/A, as the "runway" is now offset from the localizer. One of my trips there during the construction the weather was above ILS minima, but below Non-precision minima. We wound up holding at for 4-1/2 hours. It was actually a pretty nice day in the area, from where we were holding we could see Kiska and other islands in the area, could see part of Shemya even, there was just one cloud in the sky, and it was parked low over the part of the island where we wanted to land.
