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Aviation Audio Clips / 2 nose gear failures at Lakeland

« Last post by KB4TEZ on May 29, 2025, 12:27:08 UTC »

Not 1, but 2 nose gear failures at Lakeland last night.
along with lightning, and incredible taxi instruction readback, and noisy ops radios (really can't hear ground very well)
just another fun evening at KLAL

N385BV
Aircraft Make:   NEW CENTURY AEROSPORT
Aircraft Model:   RADIAL ROCKET
Event Type:   ACCIDENT
Highest Injury:   NONE
Aircraft Missing:   No
Damage:   SUBSTANTIAL
LOCATION
City:   LAKELAND
State:   FLORIDA
Country:   UNITED STATES
DESCRIPTION
Description:   AIRCRAFT LANDED HARD AND GEAR COLLAPSED, LAKELAND, FL.

N1748J
Aircraft Make:   PIPER
Aircraft Model:   PA28
Event Type:   ACCIDENT
Highest Injury:   NONE
Aircraft Missing:   No
Damage:   SUBSTANTIAL
LOCATION
City:   LAKELAND
State:   FLORIDA
Country:   UNITED STATES
DESCRIPTION
Description:   AIRCRAFT LANDED, VEERED OFF RUNWAY AND GEAR COLLAPSED, LAKELAND, FL.

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Listener Forum / KAFF will host USAF Thunderbird air to air 5/29/25

« Last post by Guerilla_Lasers on May 29, 2025, 02:44:34 UTC »

On May 29, 2025, my KAFF feed will include the air to air frequencies that the USAF Thunderbirds use while they perform their 45 minute airshow demonstration over the United States Air Force Academy graduation ceremony. Weather is iffy, so there is a chance the demonstration may be cancelled, but if it goes ahead it will likely start between 12:30 - 1:30 pm Mountain Time. This will not interrupt the normal air traffic feed on KAFF since the airspace is completely shut down during the TFR period and the USAF Thunderbird team will take control over from the USAF airfield which KAFF typically monitors. They are fun to listen to!

Mike
KAFF Feeder

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Listener Forum / Re: Flight hit by Lightning and diverted - Looking for feeds

« Last post by RonR on May 28, 2025, 23:07:17 UTC »

They probably declared the emergency while at cruising altitude and typically, they should be squawking 7700 also but as you mentioned, they appeared not to do that.  It's also possible that the emergency was declared not because of the lightning strike, but because your flight may have been overweight on landing.  There was still plenty of fuel on board to take you all the way to Denver and the fuel is weight that normally would have been burned off by the time you got to Denver.  But since it wasn't burned off, the extra weight may have made it an overweight landing.  Can't be sure though because there's no audio to confirm it.  Hope this helps

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Listener Forum / Re: Flight hit by Lightning and diverted - Looking for feeds

« Last post by djkoell on May 28, 2025, 22:17:38 UTC »

Thanks for checking.  I did hear the tower discussions but I missed to communications about declaring an emergency.  I was watching the squawk code on FR24 during the flight and told the person next to me it was a big nothing burger as long as they didn't change the squawk code to 7700.  You can obviously tell I'm not a pilot, but do they change the squawk code to 7700 anytime they declare?

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Listener Forum / Re: KONT Clear/Del Freq Change

« Last post by RonR on May 28, 2025, 21:25:17 UTC »

Hi Rich,

The frequency has been updated on the web site.  Thanks for the heads up on this!

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Listener Forum / Re: Flight hit by Lightning and diverted - Looking for feeds

« Last post by RonR on May 28, 2025, 21:23:52 UTC »

It looks like your flight was cruising along at 36000 feet when the lightning strike occurred somewhere between Abilene and DFW.  LiveATC has very limited coverage of Fort Worth Center (the facility they were talking to at the time) and, unfortunately, there is no coverage for the high-altitude sectors you were in at the time and that means there's no archived audio available.  You might be able to find some audio from your descent into Houston.  I had a look at the approach feed for KIAH but oddly, didn't hear any mention of your flight.  Your flight landed on runway 8R and you can hear the controller talking to your flight crew but the flight crew could not be heard.  They may have been on a discrete frequency that KIAH uses for emergencies.  Your flight did declare an emergency and you were met by emergency vehicles when you landed.  Sorry, not much audio to be found

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Listener Forum / Flight hit by Lightning and diverted - Looking for feeds

« Last post by djkoell on May 28, 2025, 20:35:29 UTC »

I was on UAL2447 from Austin to Denver on Sunday, 5/25, and we ended up diverting to Houston after a couple lightning strikes took out the plane's radar.  Took off from AUS at 18:58 local and headed straight towards Denver.  Plane was hit around 19:28 local over South Bend, TX.   You can see we start to turn east for a bit and ultimately divert to Houston.  I tried listening to the two ZFW sectors (42 and 25) on the site, but neither seem to include our flight.  ANy tricks or tips to find which feed my flight would have been on?  I was able to hear the take off in Austin using the 5/25 23:30-24:00 archive file. I know the archive files would need to be on 5/26 with 0000-0030 zulu local.  Thanks

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Aviation Audio Clips / 2 wild pigeons try to stowaway onboard Delta Air Lines flight

« Last post by KB4TEZ on May 28, 2025, 11:52:13 UTC »

https://www.kcra.com/article/wild-pigeons-delay-delta-flight-minneapolis-madison/64893784#:~:text=A%20flight%20from%20Minneapolis%20to,passenger%20Tom%20Caw%20told%20CNN.

A flight from Minneapolis to Madison, Wisconsin, was delayed Saturday after two birds tried to stow away on the aircraft.

The apparent wild pigeons were on Delta Air Lines flight 2348, along with 119 passengers and five crew members.  “It was bizarre,” passenger Tom Caw told CNN. “When I got on the plane, I initially heard a passenger tell a flight attendant that she thinks there’s a pigeon on the plane, and I looked at her and thought, ‘what is she talking about?’”

Sure enough, after Caw finished buckling his seat belt, he heard a commotion a few rows ahead of where he was sitting.

Baggage handlers were called onboard to remove the bird and the pilot got on the intercom to tell everyone that there’s a “wildlife situation on the plane,” Caw said.

  After the plane left the gate and was getting ready to take off, another bird emerged. “It was strutting up the aisle,” Caw said, before someone tried to grab it, which sent the bird flying through the cabin.

Video taken by Caw shows the bird flying as a passenger jumps up and tries to catch the animal in a jacket while a woman screams. After the failed attempt, the bird ended up in the back of the plane.  The pilot asked controllers for permission to return to the gate, according to audio recorded by the website LiveATC.net. “You guys need assistance, or are you all good?” the air traffic controller asked. “There is a pigeon on the plane, and it won’t go away? That’s a first for me. Wow… Oh my goodness, that is insane.”

After the plane returned to the gate, another baggage handler was asked to come on board and managed to remove the bird safely, Caw said.

In a statement to CNN, Delta said it, “appreciates the careful actions of our people and our customers to safely remove two birds from the aircraft prior to departure. We apologize to our customers for the delay in their travel.”

The flight arrived in Madison about an hour later than scheduled.

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Aviation Audio Clips / Gear Up Landing Pilatus at Lincoln KLNK

« Last post by KB4TEZ on May 28, 2025, 10:55:34 UTC »

(my old stompin grounds, nicely done, video in the link below)

https://www.klkntv.com/watch-plane-scrapes-runway-in-rough-landing-at-lincoln-airport/

LINCOLN, Neb. (KLKN) — A small plane made a hard landing Tuesday at the Lincoln Airport.

A spokeswoman said the plane was carrying six people, a family from York who were on the way back from vacation in Florida.

The plane was supposed to land in York, but about 1:15 p.m., it diverted to Lincoln due to a problem with the front landing gear.

The Lincoln Airport has a longer runway and is better equipped to handle emergency landings, spokeswoman Rachel Barth said.

“Your front nose gear is out, and it’s extended about halfway out,” an LNK air traffic controller could be heard saying on a recording of the incident on LiveATC.net.

“Alrighty. Yep, that’s what we thought,” replied the pilot of the Pilatus PC-12.

After trying to fix the landing gear, the pilot eventually decided to land without it.

“I think we’re just going to put the gear up and land on our belly,” he told the control tower. 

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Aviation Audio Clips / KDCA 5/26/25 1500Z Memorial Day Pt4 - Dep/Arr Stop for Medevac On Route 4

« Last post by baldiedc on May 28, 2025, 00:47:00 UTC »

~1513Z Stop on departures and arrivals for Medevac on Route 4...

• Medevac Pegasus-1 at Fort Washington heading to Children's Hospital in North DC requests Route 4 up the river thru restricted airspace requiring halt at DCA (TFR issued 5/13/25 https://tfr.faa.gov/tfr3/?page=detail_5_0390 in addition to the previous Route 4 closure).
• Potomac - "Well attention all aircraft looks like you're going to have to hold out some more for a helicopter operation - yey!"
• RPA5845 missed their chance to make it out in front of the medevac bc someone was "in the lav" .
• Meanwhile some separation/coordination needed between Pegasus-1 and Eagle coming the opposite direction back to the Nest on the Washington Channel towards Hains Point.
• Pegasus-1 originated from St Mary's in Richmond VA at 14:31Z so this was a 45min flight and they had to do a brief hold/circle at Fort Washington maybe due to the delay getting the right frequency for route clearance.  Other medevacs requiring DC transition from South/West of DCA have generally been going through VA in Zone 5 to the West of DCA and crossing Key Bridge from VA requiring coordination on the final transition but not a complete stop at DCA.