IL-18 aborted take off

vulcan57

Just found this, god help if it had been anymore serious, don't think that fire engine is gonna do much.!!

vulcan57

This seems to be the same airfield. Don't think I'll be going there in a hurry!

browner85

some slight health and safety issues there!!!

APM

One is a Runway and the other is a dirt strip so don't think they are the same place. The IL18 ends up over-running or going sideways off the runway onto some dirt.

dogmatix

The airstrip at the DC-6 landing looks interesting - the airport terminal consists of a row of white plastic chairs and white tape, while the control tower is represent by a guy sitting in the raised bucket/scoop of a mechanical digger.

Looks like the sort of thing Michael O'Leary would be thinking about for a private ryanair airport...

L1011

dogmatix wrote: »

The airstrip at the DC-6 landing looks interesting - the airport terminal consists of a row of white plastic chairs and white tape, while the control tower is represent by a guy sitting in the raised bucket/scoop of a mechanical digger.

Looks like the sort of thing Michael O'Leary would be thinking about for a private ryanair airport...

O'Leary will never run an airport - he relies on them making a loss to get his traffic...

The T2 extension at Copenhagen is closer to what he'd actually deem as suitable:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/peter_bromley/5219623815/

The facilities here amount to a small toilets and one single vending machine before the passport gates (for non-schengen flights) and the same again after the gates. Its accessed down a few hundred metre long corridor with no travelators.

dogmatix

Thats interesting - is the new terminal there privately run or owned by the airport authority? I'm surprised at the lack of facilities - I had always assumed that airports relied heavily on food concessions and post and pre security shopping for making money. It does look a bit bleak.