Tim From Australia, joined Jun 2000, 699 posts, RR: 3 Posted (12 years 5 months 1 week 18 hours ago) and read 2009 times:
FIRE IN THE CONTROL TOWER AT SYDNEY AIRPORT. AIRCRAFT ARE CIRCLING THE AIRPORT. UNABLE TO TAKEOFF AND LAND.
CONTROLLERS ARE MOVING TO THE OLD CONTROL TOWER TO RESUME OPERATIONS
MORE INFO AS I GET IT
ATIS YSSY VICTOR 220531
AD : SY AP CLOSED TO ALL OPS DUE TO AN
EMERG.
SY TWR 120.5, 124.7, AND SY GND
121.7 AND 126.5
RESERVED FOR COM BY EMERG SERVICES.
WND: 040 DEG, 15 TO 20 KTS.
XW MAX 18 KTS.
QNH: 1002.
TMP: 34.
WX : CAVOK.
PerthGloryFan From Australia, joined Oct 2000, 751 posts, RR: 0 Reply 3, posted (12 years 5 months 1 week 17 hours ago) and read 1895 times:
News reports say that it is a "small electrical fire", but not where in the tower it is (it's one of those architectural free standing space age looking tower things).
Great scoop with the "breaking news" Tim - looking for a career in journalism?
Keep up the good work!
PGF
Tim From Australia, joined Jun 2000, 699 posts, RR: 3 Reply 6, posted (12 years 5 months 1 week 17 hours ago) and read 1859 times:
Ok , I now have the latest:
Sydney open again to limited traffic, running 34L/R IVAs.
Tower is in the old control tower complex (the TCU building). A 737 inbound reported low fuel to Approach, but declined to declare an emergency at that point.
This NOTAM just released by AsA
AD From: 12 220547 --- To: 12 221400 EST ---- C1079/00
AD CLSD EXC FOR EMERG OPS DUE
CONTROL TOWER EVACUATION
LATEST SYDNEY ATIS:
ATIS YSSY WHISKEY 220624
AD : EXP DELAYS DUE EQUIPMENT FAILURE.
RWY: 34L.
WND: 020 DEG 15 TO 20 KTS.
XW MAX 14 KTS.
QNH: 1001.
TMP: 32.
WX : CAVOK.
V Jet From Australia, joined May 1999, 718 posts, RR: 2 Reply 7, posted (12 years 5 months 1 week 17 hours ago) and read 1853 times:
Just took a wander down to the end of my street where I cross the road to a view of the airport. Things seem to be rolling with arrivals by KL QF AN and departures by QF BA MH CX AN all in the last 30 minutes.
Pilot1113 From United States of America, joined Aug 1999, 2333 posts, RR: 13 Reply 8, posted (12 years 5 months 1 week 17 hours ago) and read 1849 times:
Does SYD become a CTAF now? Do aircraft just go with uncontrolled rules?
I'm sure plenty of pilots are communicating with dispatch over this little problem.
Samurai 777 From Canada, joined Jan 2000, 2451 posts, RR: 5 Reply 10, posted (12 years 5 months 1 week 17 hours ago) and read 1816 times:
OK, I don't know really what to make of this. But I figure that SYD ATC is going to be very thankful this didn't happen too close to the time of the Olympics!
ILUV767 From United States of America, joined May 2000, 3141 posts, RR: 8 Reply 12, posted (12 years 5 months 1 week 16 hours ago) and read 1791 times:
Sydneysider From Germany, joined Jun 2000, 193 posts, RR: 0 Reply 14, posted (12 years 5 months 1 week 15 hours ago) and read 1774 times:
Just a question : What are they doing out there in Mascot ? First, the pre-olympic power cut, now a post-olympic fire. A someone mentioned before, they must be lucky-guys, that this didn´t happen during the games.
Zanadou From South Korea, joined Nov 2000, 342 posts, RR: 0 Reply 15, posted (12 years 5 months 1 week 13 hours ago) and read 1745 times:
17:45 (AEDT) A FIRE has broken out in the control tower of Sydney Airport.
A fire brigade spokesman said the blaze started shortly before 4.30pm (AEDT) today and was caused by an electrical fault.
The control tower was evacuated and all flights to and from Sydney had to be suspended, a brigade spokesman said.
The blaze was found to have started inside a computer, he said.
Staff were evacuated to the nearby old control tower while fire crews extinguished the blaze and ventilated the area.
A spokesman for Air Services Australia, which manages the control tower, said the airport had to be temporarily closed.
"We're operating now on our contingency plans, which is to operate out of the old control tower... and we're operating at a limited capacity," the spokesman told ABC Radio.
"Planes are getting in and out but not at the normal pace.
"Certainly there will be some details, we're operating as full capacity as we can."
He said the old control tower could not cope with the same capacity as the new one.
"The old control tower is set up as a contingency rather than a full operational tower so there will be some limits to what we can do."
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