A Nice sunny afternoon at LBA 11/05/06 (Again)

Oh how i wish i was sat in that jeep/4×4 at the time. sat in the middle of all that activity 🙂

PMN wrote: Why was the Spanair A320 facing south-east in the loop? Shouldn’t it have been pointing the other way? I’ve never seen that before!

Paul

Hi

He (Spanair) made a wrong turn when back-tracking runway 14. He was to use the loop to turn a round for full length use of 14 but instead missed the first right into the loop (Echo 1) and turned into the second right (Echo 2) instead hence the reason why he was facing that wrong way in the loop.

So for that mistake, He was then made to wait until ATC go let him go. Which was about 15 minutes delay due to a lot off movements at the time. ATC let the bmi A320 to LHR & Astraeus B733 to ZKY depart and then a Jet2 B737-300 Landed.

Why was the Spanair A320 facing south-east in the loop? Shouldn’t it have been pointing the other way? I’ve never seen that before!

Paul

Hi LBArules/Tom

When are we going to get our 737-700!?

The latest I’ve heard today is that the AEU B737-700NG is expected to arrive LBA sometime Saturday evening in time for the Las Palmas departure all acounts. Otherwise the flight will again go via Faro, as did last weekends flight. Also Last weekends sunday flight to Cyprus-Larnaca went via somewhere (unknown) for a fuel stop as well.

Until The B73G Turns up the B737-300 G-STRJ will be the LBA based aircraft from now on.

Some decent shots there :).

I saw the Spanair approaching from the tarn, was surprised to see it a) as was expecting the IWD b) It was nearly an hour early!

When are we going to get our 737-700!? :rolleyes:

Stuck in stupid college while all this traffic comes in… just great.

Very nice photos though! I may have saw you from a distance.

And heres the 2nd lot.

And thats it for today folks.