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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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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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~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.
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~1505Z Tower dealing with compacted sequence due to the previous stop...
  • JIA5207 asked to circle to Rwy 33, with SWA1333 LUAW on Rwy 1, and RPA5693 on Final for Rwy 1 asked by Tower to do an S bend for spacing.
  • JIA5207 has a missed approach (reason not stated, likely unstable) and go-around to the West, preventing timely takeoff clearance for SWA1333, so Tower has to send RPA5693 around to the East, repeating instructions due to some unclear readbacks (Controller likely focused on their turn to ensure they do not enter prohibited area P-56A, where Eagle is also operating).
  • RPA5693 is asked by KRANT controller reason for go-around - "yeah... these guys putting airplanes on the runway when we're like about a mile and a half out" :)
  • JIA5207 misses an unclear frequency switch to Potomac and both Departure 118.95 and Final 119.85 are calling for ~90s before Tower gives the frequency again.
  • Medevac Pegasus-1 calls Tower a couple of times, was given 119.1 frequency by Potomac instead of 134.35.
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~1457-1505Z Stop on departures and arrivals for Moment Of Silence including delay vectors on DCA Final Approach.

"we promise we'll be real quiet landing" :)
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