Airport whats going on

[peanut123]

What has happened at the airport tonight, seen a plane stuck on runway with blue lights all around it

[pamthomas]

Incident: TuiFly B738 at Fuerteventura on Sep 18th 2017, rejected takeoff due to both left main tyres blown
By Simon Hradecky, created Monday, Sep 18th 2017 21:38Z, last updated Monday, Sep 18th 2017 21:42Z
A TuiFly Boeing 737-800, registration D-ASUN performing flight X3-2149 from Fuerteventura,CI (Spain) to Hanover (Germany) with 170 people on board, was accelerating for takeoff from Fuerteventura's runway 01 when the crew rejected takeoff at high speed (about 100 knots over ground) due to both left hand main tyres being blown and separating from the wheels. The aircraft slowed on left main wheel rims, nose and right main gear tyres and came to a safe stop on the runway about 1700 meters/5580 feet from the start of takeoff run and about 890 meters/2900 feet from the displaced threshold. There were no injuries, the aircraft damage remained limited to the left main gear, the runway features four new grooves parallel to the runway center line. The passengers disembarked via stairs onto the runway and were bussed back to the terminal.

[Johnrgby2]

We watched 3/4 flights going in after midnight, wondered what was happening.

[KWC]

I saw the pictures of the wheels on FB and they looked a right old mess.

How that happened during a take off is beyond me.  I'm of course assuming they were ok after landing and would have been checked before departure.

[Johnrgby2]

I saw the pictures of the wheels on FB and they looked a right old mess.

How that happened during a take off is beyond me.  I'm of course assuming they were ok after landing and would have been checked before departure.

It is standard procedure to check wheels etc, sounds more like something on the runway.

[duncolm]

Iffy Google translation from Noticias Fuerteventura,
http://noticiasfuerteventura.com/fuerteventura/750-personas-durmieron-en-el-aeropuerto

With a total of seven flights diverted, four canceled on arrival and thirteen departing, Fuerteventura airport became a real chaos during yesterday afternoon due to the accident that occurred when two wheels of a TUI plane were blasted to Hannover.

Around 18.42 in the afternoon the closing of the track took place, since it was impossible to move the airplane in the state in which its landing gear remained. Then the emergency plan was put in place and the operatives tried to move the device, a situation that became very complicated.

Of the diverted flights one went to Tenerife Norte, two to Gran Canaria and four to Lanzarote, whose airport remained open all night with 120 passengers who had to spend the night there. At 00.25 hours it was possible to remove the apparatus from the runway and proceeded to recover some of the domestic flights. Thus recovered two from Gran Canaria and two from Lanzarote.

The chaos produced at the airport made it stay open all night to shelter people who had not been rehoused in hotels or apartments, so 750 people stayed overnight in the airport waiting for their flights to return normality.

Contradictory information

Social networks became a hotbed of information exchange, with continued tweets from users, or from affected institutions. The air traffic controllers were filtering data, or info emergencias and meteo Fuerteventura talked about that the track would be damaged and would not be produced more flights, extreme that the Ministry of Fomento was responsible of denying with an official communiqué that later would tweet the own AENA.

Withdrawal of contingency lane

In 2003, a second airstrip was set up for the island of Fuerteventura, in the words of Mario Cabrera. "Those responsible for the Fuerteventura Airport and AENA, in coordination with local institutions, agreed to modify the project of works already was underway to include a series of changes necessary to convert the pre-existing parallel runway into a contingency track. That is to say, a second track to be able to attend unforeseen events that blocked the main track, "he said in Parliament last November.

Thanks to this, Fuerteventura Airport has since been equipped with a landing strip of 3,400 meters in length and a new contingency track of 2,400 meters in length.

This contingency track allowed that in case of closing of the main track for any technical problem or accident such as January 2002, the Airport could remain open thanks to the service of this second lane. All of this was reflected in the Fuerteventura Airport Master Plan, as well as in all aerial mapping and airport information systems.

"However, coinciding with the line of cuts and privatization of AENA, during the last years we have witnessed a progressive dismantling of this contingency track," said the majorero deputy.

First, its operation was limited, until finally it was out of order to reach the current situation, in which the beacons have been removed and horizontal signaling has been deleted. In spite of the fact that in the air navigation cartography and in the own Plan Master of the Airport of Fuerteventura continues appearing like totally in service.

The operation of this track is very important especially in Airports of islands that also base their economic activity almost exclusively in the tourism, and therefore live directly from the arrival of visitors through the Airport.

"In fact, currently the airports of Ibiza, Menorca or Palma have contingency tracks. The airport of Gran Canaria has two runways and Tenerife has two airports, so that contingencies can be addressed in greater measure or through these facilities, "insisted Mario Cabrera during his speech.

The Canarian Parliament unanimously demanded AENA and Fomento to recover the second runway at Fuerteventura Airport on 23 November at an airport with more than â,¬ 20 million annual benefit.

[dagwood]

Lucky they didn't get off the ground. Still good work by all concerned