News and notes from around the interweb:
- “Clear to Land….Caution pedestrians on Runway” Wait for it, about 26 seconds in…
“Clear to Land….Caution pedestrians on Runway” 😳. pic.twitter.com/inYp6K5JnK
— Scott Bateman MBE 💙 (@scottiebateman) February 11, 2021
- Australia’s international travel ban can be extended up to 3 months at a time. The current ban expires March 17, and is reviewed 4 weeks in advance. That means next week we should see another three month ban extension, into mid-June.
- Bombardier will end Learjet production this year
- Korean Air, a member of SkyTeam and part-owned by Delta, is acquiring South Korea’s number two airline Asiana (Star Alliance). They’ve cleared their first foreign anti-trust hurdle by gaining approval from Turkey.
- Northern Virginia is getting a JW Marriott at the DC-area Metro’s Wiehle-Reston East silver line metro stop. It’s expected to open in 2024. Hopefully the Washington Dulles metro station will open this year, and then it’s a straight shot.
I don’t think pedestrians is the term. Maybe runway maintenance crew.
Looks like a displaced threshold. No problemo.
It’s not a displaced threshold. A displaced threshold would have arrows pointing toward the threshold (or chevrons if the pre-threshold area is not suitable for aircraft movement), not a normal dashed centerline.
I don’t see how Australia can ever reopen without some major backtracking by the government.
Everyone knows at this point that Covid-19 is going to be endemic. They’ve painted themselves into a corner. I love Australia and most of the people. But also looking forward to a Bogan free Bali in the near future.
Always a silver lining.
Hmm. Looks like a displaced threshold to me. The barrels on the runway show that planes must land farther down the runway to allow maintenance. The normal runway threshold has been displaced. Painting is unnecessary.
This landing with maintenance workers occurred at Paraguay’s Asunción Silvio Pettirossi International Airport. It was covered in March 2019 when the video surfaced but the video was reportedly taken 4 to 5 years prior to that.
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/26769/code-brown-as-this-gulfstream-jet-nearly-lands-on-workers-repairing-a-closed-runway
https://www.gatechecked.com/watch-as-small-jet-makes-dangerous-landing-on-runway-under-maintenance-in-paraguay-1050
https://metro.co.uk/2019/03/15/were-not-sure-these-runway-workers-trousers-were-orange-by-the-end-of-this-video-8908480/