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Air Traffic Monitoring => Aviation Audio Clips => Topic started by: YWGTower on May 15, 2007, 10:22:43 PM

Title: Emergency vehicles at JFK???
Post by: YWGTower on May 15, 2007, 10:22:43 PM
Anybody hear this too? Just tuned in and heard an American airlines flight #2 to land and Emergency vehicles standing by. Time: 10:20 P.M. EST. Anyone know what's going on?

Edit: Something to do with a fuel emergency.
Title: Re: Emergency vehicles at JFK???
Post by: Fryy/Avocadoflight on May 16, 2007, 05:03:30 AM
Clip is of AAL32 on final and tower with fuel emergency.
Title: Re: Emergency vehicles at JFK???
Post by: YWGTower on May 16, 2007, 08:41:26 AM
Quote from: Fryy on May 16, 2007, 05:03:30 AM
Clip is of AAL32 on final and tower with fuel emergency.


Yep, that would be it. Thanks.
Title: Re: Emergency vehicles at JFK???
Post by: cessna157 on May 16, 2007, 11:03:39 AM
Did he (the controller) at the end say there was another emergency, same type, directly behind him?

What's the deal
Title: Re: Emergency vehicles at JFK???
Post by: Fryy/Avocadoflight on May 16, 2007, 06:47:44 PM
Quote from: cessna157 on May 16, 2007, 11:03:39 AM
Did he (the controller) at the end say there was another emergency, same type, directly behind him?

What's the deal

yeah i noticed that too, i was going to put the other guy in the clip aswell but after an hour of editing that down i gave up :/
Title: Re: Emergency vehicles at JFK???
Post by: hand1dj on May 16, 2007, 10:45:36 PM
Sometimes, when the weather is bad or for whatever reason, planes have to circle for a long time and start to run low on fuel. So, they reach a point at which they must land or run out of gas and thats when they have to declare an emergency to get priority landing handling. From what I've heard at JFK, its not too uncommon for them to string several in a row after a long hold for wind/weather.
Title: Re: Emergency vehicles at JFK???
Post by: cessna157 on May 16, 2007, 11:01:35 PM
But as a 121 pilot (or any pilot for that matter) it's your job to prevent that situation from happening.  If you get low on fuel, you divert and gas up somewhere that you can get into.
Title: Re: Emergency vehicles at JFK???
Post by: blizzard242 on May 16, 2007, 11:19:28 PM
it's not always that easy, especially in the busy skies of jfk. Plus customer really don't like being diverted after holding in bad weather for possibly hours. I hate to say this but most of the travailing public likes to get were they are going regardless of their safety. Most people are very ignorant of how the airline industry works.