Arrecife Airport: so what's happening??????

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Flight AEA 196 runway overshoot this morning -- any further news?

(As in: is the airport open. . . or closed?)


http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008...pain-air-crash

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http://news.bbc.co.uk:80/1/hi/scotland/7701975.stm


Welcome to Lanza!

(Aapparently all's well so my earlier question is now academic.)

[peggy]

Hi HotPot, was going to answer earlier, but, it wouldn't log me in. :oops
It looks like it was a frightening experience.:mus

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Hi Peggy! Yup, pretty frightening indeed.

According to industry gossip the Boeing encountered cross-winds due to "squally" conditions at Arrecife and "landed long" on runway 21 instead of the more usual 03 -- not sure what the significance of that is.

When we were first told about it, the event was described as an "accident" but is now classed as "incident" as no damage to the airplane and no harm to the passengers.

There's been some bloody awful misreporting by Times Online and others so it was a good thing BBC Scotland had the video -- we were being told the Boeing almost finished up on the beach, as if that was all there was to it, when in fact it nearly slalomed down the banking into the perimeter fence and then the perimeter road stone wall.

Consequences of that don't bear thinking about so everyone certainly had a lucky escape. . . :cherry

* Only 74 passengers on that flight though? Used to be much greater loading of flights into Lanza -- fingers crossed this isn't an early sign of the UK's recession.

[peggy]

Only 74 passengers on board, that is amazing. I do think it's been played down.
To think the Jonathon Ross "incedent" has been front page news all week. (We wont go there):bolt

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We decided the only reason this didn't make the headlines was not because it was a relatively minor incident, but because Jonathan Ross wasn't on board.

Or that other bloke, Russell Harty or something, I've no idea who he is except the visual evidence suggests another care in the community failure.

But then we realised, yippee! Jonathan Ross isn't going to be in Lanza any time soon. Nor the bloke who I now recollect isn't called Harty or Hardy but something else, Barmy possibly.

Even the thought of encountering Ross on Lanza is enough to kill off the island's tourism industry for years. :yikes

[peggy]

Russel Brand, was seen getting on a plane yesterday ...................... but, hopefully, it's still trying to get permission to land................................in the Siberian desert.:plane :omg

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Apparently the Minister for Siberian Tourism has just quit.

In a statement he said everyone thought things had been pretty dire with Stalin and the gulags.

Now that the situation's far worse, he's off to somewhere with a similar climate, lots of ice and snow, forests and lakes -- but thankfully, with no lunatics like Russell Hobbs around.

No-one's had the heart to tell him that Sarah Palin's the Governor there.


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