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Air Traffic Monitoring => Aviation Audio Clips => Topic started by: InterpreDemon on November 19, 2013, 10:32:29 PM
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An Airborne Express captain is stuck on the tarmac at 1AM due to the earlier evening arrival of the VP.
Edited from the HF ARINC LDOC 6640/8933 archives.
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Nice find ID! You can tell dispatch was pleased...
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Yeah, it's not clear to me what the "clean-up" was that they were talking about. It was either that DHL was contracted to bring down a couple plane loads of support equipment for the VP, or normal operations got backed up during Biden's arrival and DHL has gate priority. Perhaps Panama is a Central American hub for DHL or something and ABEX uses their facilities.
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InterpreDemon, you are right, Panama is a hub for DHL Aero Expreso (D5). Furthermore, the VIP terminal AND the cargo terminal are near the end of RWY 03L/21R, so most likely that area was blocked during this period.
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Aisman, thanks for the info, an amazing knowledge base we have here at LiveATC.