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Incident at airport

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  • 05-06-2012 5:36pm
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    abouttobebanned
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    Reports of a plane missing or overshooting the runway? Anyone hear this?


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    cocoshovel
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    missing and overshooting the runway are 2 very different things. Ill look into it

    Edit: Quick glance at the aviation forum someone said flybe Dash went off the off the runway. Probably the 16:00 flight from birmingham if it is true. Hopefully not.
    edit2: Airport website is showing flight after the flybe one as "Diverted to Cork"


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    skinnyboy
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    yea seein a thread in aircraft and aviation about a flybe plane overshooting the runway hope everybody is ok if true


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    mike65
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    Hopefully we'll get an eyewitness report from Sully, as he was probably driving past at the time.


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    deisedave
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    http://www.thejournal.ie/plane-goes-off-the-runway-at-waterford-airport-475648-Jun2012/
    I dont think anyone was hurt.


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    gscully
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    How many Martin Cullen pensions would it take to extend the runway?


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    Trotter
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    Don't think there was any drama. Just a wheel went off the tarmac onto the grass. Mushy wet ground isnt the friend of aircraft wheels.


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    marlin vs
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    Trotter wrote: »
    Don't think there was any drama. Just a wheel went off the tarmac onto the grass. Mushy wet ground isnt the friend of aircraft wheels.
    Just a wheel went into the grass! just aswell he was only taxiing.


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    bradknowell
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    marlin vs wrote: »
    Just a wheel went into the grass! just aswell he was only taxiing.

    Bet ya it was one of them bloody foreigner's taxxiing hahaha. I didnt see any green light n the roof of the plane anyways.


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    membersonly
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    bradknowell wrote: »
    Bet ya it was one of them bloody foreigner's taxxiing hahaha. I didnt see any green light n the roof of the plane anyways.

    Sure they're all terrorists anyway, he was probably attempting a 9/11 style attack on the clock tower..


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    CantGetNoSleep
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    gscully wrote: »
    How many Martin Cullen pensions would it take to extend the runway?

    I'd prefer to just place Martin Cullen horizontally across the end of the runway and use him physically as a plane stopper, as in the equivalent of speed bumps but on an airport runway


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    bradknowell
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    CantGetNoSleep wrote: »
    I'd prefer to just place Martin Cullen horizontally across the end of the runway and use him physically as a plane stopper, as in the equivalent of speed bumps but on an airport runway

    place him halfway down just incase they dont make it as far as the end. ;)


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    tankbarry
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    he could have carried on but its protocol for Flybe to check all incidents.... easy fix


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    marlin vs
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    tankbarry wrote: »
    he could have carried on but its protocol for Flybe to check all incidents.... easy fix
    Strange that the pilot didn't know where the wheels were supposed to be, sure maybe the runway isn't wide enough.:rolleyes:


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    anbodhran
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    If this makes the national media it will actually be a form of advertisement for the airport. Most people you meet around the country aren't aware that Waterford has an airport.


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    scholar007
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    anbodhran wrote: »
    If this makes the national media it will actually be a form of advertisement for the airport. Most people you meet around the country aren't aware that Waterford has an airport.


    There's an airport in Waterford? :confused: I knew ye had a Fred Forsey but not an airport.


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    mike65
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    Here it is

    tsodi.jpg


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    fricatus
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    scholar007 wrote: »
    There's an airport in Waterford? :confused: I knew ye had a Fred Forsey but not an airport.

    Well if you were to listen to the so-called national media* you'd think there was only one airport in the country, because they're forever talking about "the" airport!


    * more accurately described as the Dublin media


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    merlante
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    Didn't even mention the airport when talking about getting to the olympics, apparently, which is a bit of a head scratcher if flights are going to be at a premium. Waterford would be more convenient for Dublin than Cork or Shannon. Not huge capacity, maybe, but worth mentioning.


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    Beeker
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    Also you can get to Southend airport from Waterford, perfect for the Olympics!


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    scholar007
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    scholar007 wrote: »
    There's an airport in Waterford? :confused: I knew ye had a Fred Forsey but not an airport.


    Wow! - A Fred Forsey and an airport and a Mick Wallace - Gosh talk about being blessed in Waterford!


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    mecco
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    scholar007 wrote: »
    Wow! - A Fred Forsey and an airport and a Mick Wallace - Gosh talk about being blessed in Waterford!

    Sure we shouldn't be surprised you didnt know there is an airport here if you cant differentiate between Waterford and Wexford...


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    mike65
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    scholar needs to go back to his books.


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    scholar007
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    mecco wrote: »
    Sure we shouldn't be surprised you didnt know there is an airport here if you cant differentiate between Waterford and Wexford...


    LOL! Easily mixed up, both begin with a W and end with a D. Sure ye are all the one down there in the Sunny South East. ;)


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    CantGetNoSleep
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    scholar007 wrote: »
    LOL! Easily mixed up, both begin with a W and end with a D. Sure ye are all the one down there in the Sunny South East. ;)
    Bahaha easily mixed up to an uneducated fool


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