It took them 20 minutes to pick up a dead armadillo?
ORLANDO, Fla. – A dead armadillo on a runway at Orlando International Airport caused a number of delayed flights Wednesday morning, transportation officials said.
Had to dig out the FAA handbook to make sure they did the proper procedure for removing remains from runway. Damn administration got laws for everything ...
I worked at an airport for years and I assure you (1) that it took longer than 20 minutes (2) the tower was notified of the dead dillo by some poor pilot attemtping to land on a fouled runway (3) Tower then closed the runway (4) Airport employees and managers probably argued for at least 30 minutes on whose job this was. Meantime all inbound aircraft had to use a different runway with a severe crosswind. Yes, airports are really stupid...........
I had my comment all thought out, ready to go. Now I don't have to say it. You two said it all. My experience has been that it is consistently like that. Even at small airports.
As a retired Air Force aviation guy, my only question is why it only took them 20 minutes. I would have to assume the ops guys were parked in a truck within 200ft of the dead possum and were not on break or asleep to have a response time that short...
The tower always knew when I was repairing things on the airfield and simply called me since it would take way longer to go through bureaucrat channels.
Had to dig out the FAA handbook to make sure they did the proper procedure for removing remains from runway. Damn administration got laws for everything ...
ReplyDeleteI worked at an airport for years and I assure you (1) that it took longer than 20 minutes (2) the tower was notified of the dead dillo by some poor pilot attemtping to land on a fouled runway (3) Tower then closed the runway (4) Airport employees and managers probably argued for at least 30 minutes on whose job this was. Meantime all inbound aircraft had to use a different runway with a severe crosswind. Yes, airports are really stupid...........
ReplyDeleteI had my comment all thought out, ready to go. Now I don't have to say it.
ReplyDeleteYou two said it all. My experience has been that it is consistently like that. Even at small airports.
As a retired Air Force aviation guy, my only question is why it only took them 20 minutes. I would have to assume the ops guys were parked in a truck within 200ft of the dead possum and were not on break or asleep to have a response time that short...
ReplyDeleteThe tower always knew when I was repairing things on the airfield and simply called me since it would take way longer to go through bureaucrat channels.
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