oil on the runway at Manchester today
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Ahhh ok... this will explain what I saw today at EMA.
I was walking down the side of the runway on the airport trail earlier this afternoon when a TOM 738 landed, parked up on the taxiway (I think?) and stayed there - I was quite a way down so couldn't see all that well, but I could see that it had steps up to it. A few minutes after I saw the air ambulance hovering close to it. I checked the EMA website on my phone and it displayed a TOM flight from Pisa and showed as diverted. I was thinking it was a medical diversion. But not long after, the FCA A321 landed and parked literally right next to the TOM.
Then, come to think of it, shortly after was the 75W that came in and parked up on it's tod in the middle of nowhere...
It all makes sense now!
I was walking down the side of the runway on the airport trail earlier this afternoon when a TOM 738 landed, parked up on the taxiway (I think?) and stayed there - I was quite a way down so couldn't see all that well, but I could see that it had steps up to it. A few minutes after I saw the air ambulance hovering close to it. I checked the EMA website on my phone and it displayed a TOM flight from Pisa and showed as diverted. I was thinking it was a medical diversion. But not long after, the FCA A321 landed and parked literally right next to the TOM.
Then, come to think of it, shortly after was the 75W that came in and parked up on it's tod in the middle of nowhere...
It all makes sense now!
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Would it be silly to ask why 23L wasn't brought into use rather than having to divert away
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Plus you'd need an unscheduled runway inspection to get 23L open, and would have reduced RFF while the Kestrel was surrounded by 5(!) fire engines which may be an issue.
I think MAN did quite well, with minimum diversions.
DW.
I think MAN did quite well, with minimum diversions.
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Opnot..... so they do just procedural approaches without radar?
Runway inspections don't have to be scheduled... do they? Where I worked they could be carried out at any time.
Runway inspections don't have to be scheduled... do they? Where I worked they could be carried out at any time.
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...normally brought onto an intercept heading at about 12DME on radar vectors, to do a VOR/DME procedure as explained by WingoWango. 23L is runway 2 and has an area for turing at about 2/3rds, otherwise it's down to the end to join the loop which can accommodate at best, 4 jets, which all then need to backtrack. Add in departures, and you can see how flow rate is massively reduced.
Runway inspections are now scheduled and require breaks in the arrival sequence - however in this instance the runway had to be opened as an emergency, so it would have been an unscheduled inspection to get things rolling. Lot's of stuff sent to the holds whilst this happened, but not too many diverts. And operating into MAN you should carry 20 mins holding fuel for a no delay approach...
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Runway inspections are now scheduled and require breaks in the arrival sequence - however in this instance the runway had to be opened as an emergency, so it would have been an unscheduled inspection to get things rolling. Lot's of stuff sent to the holds whilst this happened, but not too many diverts. And operating into MAN you should carry 20 mins holding fuel for a no delay approach...
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