dublin airport closed

drdeadlift

just seen it posted on a group on fb,possibly an incident.Any news reg it?

Simon Gruber Says

When I was on my way out to Howth about 20 mins ago I noticed two planes on approach turn away when they got to Portmarnock. There was also a Garda helicopter hovering in the Clarehall area. However an Emirates 777 just passed me now and seemed to continue it's approach.

radar0976

Aircraft seem to be landing at the moment.

JillyQ

Looking at the DAA website everything seems to be delayed.

kona

Wouldn't b suprised judging by where the helicopter was, a bunch of filth shining a laser at approaching aircraft.

drdeadlift

kona wrote: »

Wouldn't b suprised judging by where the helicopter was, a bunch of filth shining a laser at approaching aircraft.

would it be that effective during daylight

Simon Gruber Says

All planes passing me now are continuing their approach and landing 28

LeftBase

drdeadlift wrote: »

would it be that effective during daylight

It's a laser. Daylight or no daylight it will do damage to pilot's eyes and/or aircraft's external sensors

kona

drdeadlift wrote: »

would it be that effective during daylight

Be harder to use I'd imagine, but these wasters have plenty of practice. Still do damage if they get it in the right spot. Another reason to move them away from civilisation.

brandon_flowers

kona wrote: »

Be harder to use I'd imagine, but these wasters have plenty of practice. Still do damage if they get it in the right spot. Another reason to moveeradicate them away from civilisation.

Fixed that for you.

Tabnabs

Dublin Airport ‏@DublinAirport

Three flights diverted earlier as Garda helicopter, which was dealing with serious incident, had priority from air traffic control.

Is what the official line is.

veetwin

Cash in transit robbery at Clarehall Shopping Centre probable cause.

Riskymove

veetwin wrote: »

Cash in transit robbery at Clarehall Shopping Centre probable cause.

http://www.thejournal.ie/clare-hall-shopping-centre-armed-robbery-831983-Mar2013/

vicwatson

Tabnabs wrote: »

Is what the official line is.

Diverted or go around I wonder?

drdeadlift

LeftBase wrote: »

It's a laser. Daylight or no daylight it will do damage to pilot's eyes and/or aircraft's external sensors

Curious , what external sensors would be sensitive to a lazer beam?

N7777G

drdeadlift wrote: »

just seen it posted on a group on fb,possibly an incident.Any news reg it?

Dublin Airport did not close this morning.

Arriving aircraft were delayed because the Garda Helicopter (Echo 272) was operating in the vicinity of the approach to runway 28 and was granted priority over inbound traffic by ATC.

Aircraft on approach were put into holding patterns and three of them diverted to Shannon (because they were running low on fuel).

Departing traffic continued to operate as normal.

vicwatson

In this case do the aircraft fly back to Dublin from Shannon after refueling?

MuffinsDa

N7777G wrote: »

(because they were running low on fuel).

Any idea which flight where diverted?!

I can take a wild guess.......

Growler!!!

N7777G wrote: »

(because they were running low on fuel) getting close to legal minimums.

Fixed that for you.
I can concur on the rest of your post. Got a lovely pic of a Ryanair passing 1000 ft overhead as we were routing to SORIN.

MuffinsDa wrote: »

Any idea which flight where diverted?!

I can take a wild guess.......

So do you know the answer to your question? Or were you looking to stir something up?

LeftBase

drdeadlift wrote: »

Curious , what external sensors would be sensitive to a lazer beam?

I was told that it can mess with the radio altimeters on some aircraft.

Johnny901

I presume also IR camera on Irish Coast Guard and Garda Air Support Unit helis.

Never heard of the Rad Alt issue, interesting.

Cookiemunster

MuffinsDa wrote: »

Any idea which flight where diverted?!

I can take a wild guess.......

http://www.thejournal.ie/armed-coolock-robbery-causes-three-dublin-flights-to-be-diverted-to-shannon-832343-Mar2013/
A spokesperson from the Dublin Airport Authority told TheJournal.ie that an Aer Lingus flight from Gatwick, an Aer Lingus Flight from Brussels and a Ryanair flight from Las Palmas were all diverted to Shannon at around 11am.

Bet you guessed wrong.

JamieIsGod

Why didn't the aircraft in question just use 16?

Irish Steve

Hey, it took 45 minutes to get 16 open the other day when the Metro blocked 28. They were probably still working out who to send to inspect 16 when the helicopter cleared the area.

Switching from 28 to 16 from the aircraft perspective is probably the bigger hassle, if they were closer in than 10 miles, it's a missed approach scenario, with a low level view of North Leinster for the passengers, out to at least Duleek via Dunshaughlin and almost Navan.

A320

LeftBase wrote: »

I was told that it can mess with the radio altimeters on some aircraft.

Very Unlikely,the chances of aiming perfectly at the 4 RAD ALT antennae on a moving jet is probably impossible especially with gears down and also engines in the way

I think the pilots eyes is the instrument it interferes with.

JamieIsGod

Irish Steve wrote: »

Hey, it took 45 minutes to get 16 open the other day when the Metro blocked 28. They were probably still working out who to send to inspect 16 when the helicopter cleared the area.

Switching from 28 to 16 from the aircraft perspective is probably the bigger hassle, if they were closer in than 10 miles, it's a missed approach scenario, with a low level view of North Leinster for the passengers, out to at least Duleek via Dunshaughlin and almost Navan.

Ah thanks for clearing that up for me

APM

the go-around for RWY16 would take the aircraft directly towards the helicopter hovering so that was not an option

drdeadlift

N7777G wrote: »

Dublin Airport did not close this morning.

Arriving aircraft were delayed because the Garda Helicopter (Echo 272) was operating in the vicinity of the approach to runway 28 and was granted priority over inbound traffic by ATC.

Aircraft on approach were put into holding patterns and three of them diverted to Shannon (because they were running low on fuel).

Departing traffic continued to operate as normal.

Sorry,it was half closed.