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Author Topic: VX 958 reported Fire at KSFO 11 december  (Read 15741 times)

Offline DingerX

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VX 958 reported Fire at KSFO 11 december
« on: December 12, 2014, 03:37:24 AM »
For those of you who don't have a ton of work in front of you:
It can't be much fun for the controllers in the Bay Area. Yesterday, during a major storm that was already making life difficult for everyone, the winds were shifting. To compensate, a coordinated change of arrival and departure runways at all major airports, was set for (on my guess) 23:00 UTC. For SFO, I think this involved going from landing on 19L/R and taking off on the 10s to sending everything in and out the 28s.
Then at about 22:52 UTC, Virgin America 958 at gate 51B called on Ramp frequency reporting a fire in the back of the aircraft; shortly thereafter an evacuation is mentioned on 121.8. Level 3 alert shenanigans ensue, sending trucks to the gate, and the two on short final go around for an unexpected tour of the region in the finest weather California has to offer. I'd like to post it all up in a coherent way, but with my skills, that would take the better part of a day just to figure out everything that was going on.