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Old 2nd Jun 2005, 11:04
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NEMA this morning

I've just turned up for work at EMA this morning to find securicor all over ema with lots of police running around as well on to the main ramp - any ideas whats going on?
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Probably a crew member without a NEMA issued ID tried to go into the terminal on a turnaround to buy a magazine, or some other such-like horrendous contravention of security;oh no I'm not joking it happens.
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tell me about it, similar things have happened to me often enought!
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Possibly connected with the diversion & emergency (?) landing of a Thomsonfly B737 from Coventry, TOM don't seem to be having much luck lately!

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looks like that might fit the bill. wonder what caused that then?
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Its Thomsonfly, they are just doomed, I think is some kind of resistance undercover to change the name back to Britannia.
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Any more info on the 'incident'?
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not as far as i know, but there was another emergency landing this morning as well. its all go up here!
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was a coventry bound B737 with unsafe gear indication-did not want/could not land at EGBE so decided to see if it could block our runway instead! begs the question why it did not go to Doncaster
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do we know what thompson aircraft it was? thoc or thod?
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thought it was B but will stand corrected
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Old 3rd Jun 2005, 15:32
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apparently it was Often Broken for a change that aircraft needs sending back to where it came from and never allow it to see the light of day again
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Almost,

Ponder for a moment on the amount of fuel he may have had remaining, the extra distance to Doncaster and the fact that he probably left his gear down once the fault was apparent. I am sure you will soon come to the fully professional conclusion that flying past EMA would not be a sensible idea.
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accepted-but then why not Brum?
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Old 3rd Jun 2005, 16:57
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Divert

I believe they ended up in Norwich because that's where KLM fix these things!
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Old 3rd Jun 2005, 17:36
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was still on the apron at EMA yesterday PM-booked to do a circuit detail this morning
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Almost,

Yes a good point, BHX is a little closer but if it was me I think I would choose EMA too. The runways are much better and usually more in to wind.
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It did a few circuits at East Mids today & then ambled across to Norwich & can confirm it was 'OB.

East Mids has a longer runway than Birmingham & I believe wind direction was also a factor

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This is interesting

The runways are much better and usually more in to wind.
They only have one RWY, Have they built another which they are able to point into wind?
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Old 3rd Jun 2005, 19:26
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East Mids runway points roughly East/West which is nicely into the prevailing wind in the UK

Birminghams points roughly North/South which is nicely at right angles to it.
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