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Re: Aborted landings
[Re: WWII]
#316858
03/28/2024 02:16 PM
03/28/2024 02:16 PM
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Posts: 315 Rhode Island
eightzerobits
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Seems like a wind issue - too much in the wrong direction. They're clearing some take offs and landing on runway 28 - so toward the beach.
Last edited by eightzerobits; 03/28/2024 02:17 PM.
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Re: Aborted landings
[Re: eightzerobits]
#316868
03/28/2024 02:56 PM
03/28/2024 02:56 PM
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Joined: Aug 2000
Posts: 82,738 Central Florida!
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I can't tell how big a plane it is, but I just saw a plane land on the SXM Island Cam. Missed it on the Maho Beach cam.
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Re: Aborted landings
[Re: WWII]
#316880
03/28/2024 04:35 PM
03/28/2024 04:35 PM
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Typically it will be a 10 knot tailwind component maximum for the larger jets. I haven't looked at the approach charts, but I believe they can't land on runway 28. update: Here's the chart that explains approach and missed approach: Jeppeson Chart
Last edited by Zanshin; 03/28/2024 04:38 PM.
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Re: Aborted landings
[Re: Carol_Hill]
#316891
03/28/2024 05:44 PM
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eightzerobits
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Whoa!! Another reason not to book Spirit!!! I’m not sure which was “worse”… spirit taking the hillside approach or American making a near limits tailing approach. I’m sure both were perfectly safe by the rules but both also make me squirm a little as a passenger. I’m sure they’re all happy to be on the right island though instead of diverted.
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Re: Aborted landings
[Re: WWII]
#316894
03/28/2024 05:53 PM
03/28/2024 05:53 PM
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Posts: 315 Rhode Island
eightzerobits
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Delta and JetBlue are still at SJU. Air France is almost at SXM now.
Edit: Air France landed. But the airport just posted that wind conditions are expected to remain bad until 4am. So I suspect the Delta and JetBlue passenger are sleeping in Puerto Rico tonight.
Last edited by eightzerobits; 03/28/2024 06:01 PM.
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Re: Aborted landings
[Re: SXMScubaman]
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03/29/2024 08:39 AM
03/29/2024 08:39 AM
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Posts: 82,738 Central Florida!
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I have never gone through an aborted landing, but I wonder whether the passengers knew there was that possibility or not. That Spirit landing would have made me pee my pants, if I was onboard.
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