Shannon, all flights stopped

knucklehead6

Just saw a tweet from RTÉ saying all flights in Shannon are stopped due to an incident

RocketRaccoon

Nothing involving the terminal happily.

Skuxx

Incident with an Omni Air B763, saw a picture on Twitter with foam sprayed around the gear!

knucklehead6

The crusties are gonna love this.

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/flights-at-shannon-airport-suspended-after-passenger-jet-fire-1.3986905?mode=amp

California Dreamer

The ‘news’ reported it as a 763! Surprised they didn’t say the jumbo jet and post a picture of a Ryanair 737-200

Back in the day, when I worked there, the Airport police and the firemen were the same personnel. They'll have loved a bit of action

Thankfully, fairly innocuous. And could the IT have found a more unflattering pic of Shannon Airport.

Phileas Frog

That Pat Flynn chap must live in the airport, or certainly have a tent in the bushes around the perimeter somewhere!

marvin80

Good spot by the air traffic controllers

JustJoe7240

Deleted User wrote: »

Back in the day, when I worked there, the Airport police and the firemen were the same personnel. They'll have loved a bit of action

Thankfully, fairly innocuous. And could the IT have found a more unflattering pic of Shannon Airport.

Someone must be reading, the photo just changed. :pac:

RedorDead

From someone at the airport....

"From what I can gather from the LiveATC recordings it seems like the pilots did an RTO due to an open flightdeck window. The RTO happened at a high enough speed and due to performance (Heavy Aircraft) the brakes got hot. The pilots decided to taxi to the runway holding point and held on the ground to let the brakes cool but missed their ATC slot so decided to go back to stand. While taxiing back on the runway the tower observed smoke from the left side of the aircraft so the pilots subsequently decided to evacuate on the runway...cockpit window opened on take off - pilot fault"

Ficheall

Sorry, phone camera is pretty crap even at this distance..

Latest: "The situation on the runway is still ongoing. We are working with the airline to remove the aircraft. We should have an update at 11am. We apologise for any inconvenience caused."

marno21

Inbound American has diverted to Manchester, Delta holding at 370 off the coast

Ficheall

I'm no expert, but holding doesn't sound like a viable plan to me...

Balf

Deleted User wrote: »

Back in the day, when I worked there, the Airport police and the firemen were the same personnel. They'll have loved a bit of action

Still seems to be the case

https://www.newstalk.com/news/shannon-airport-gets-countrys-first-high-tech-fire-tenders-886382

The recruits will undergo an intensive 12-week training programme which will equip them to begin work in the combined role of airport police and fire personnel.

I take it this means it might take a while.

Ficheall

The plane is now moving verrrrry slowly.

JCX BXC

marno21 wrote: »

Inbound American has diverted to Manchester, Delta holding at 370 off the coast

Delta gone also.

Ficheall

JCX BXC wrote: »

Delta gone also.

Aw man, I was supposed to be boarding Delta.

Ficheall

Plane now on taxiway, so I guess things should start getting back to normalish at some point soon...

plodder

RedorDead wrote: »

From someone at the airport....

"From what I can gather from the LiveATC recordings it seems like the pilots did an RTO due to an open flightdeck window. The RTO happened at a high enough speed and due to performance (Heavy Aircraft) the brakes got hot. The pilots decided to taxi to the runway holding point and held on the ground to let the brakes cool but missed their ATC slot so decided to go back to stand. While taxiing back on the runway the tower observed smoke from the left side of the aircraft so the pilots subsequently decided to evacuate on the runway...cockpit window opened on take off - pilot fault"

Could they not have closed the window?

What an unfortunate chain of events from something so innocuous.

goingnowhere

Boeing training https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEMcD-RWA9A

Take off appears to be the suggested option and close in air or return if not possible to close

Ficheall

First boarding call has just been made, so I guess the runway's back in operation.

JCX BXC

Airport back in operation

Ficheall

Plane has arrived, and needs two new tyres. I'm not positive, but it's possible the hostess person said that was related to the earlier incident and there were nails on the runway or something. Please feel free to speculate wildly.