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Updated: 10:34 AM Feb 9, 2010
Another Aborted Takeoff at Yeager Airport; Runway Reopens
The runway at Yeager Airport has since reopened after an aborted takeoff early Monday morning.
Posted: 8:04 AM Feb 8, 2010Reporter: Anna Baxter Email Address: anna.baxter@wsaz.com |
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UPDATE @ 2:30pm
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) -- The runway at Yeager Airport has since reopened after an aborted takeoff early Monday morning, airport officials say.
UPDATE @ 2:10pm
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) -- Flights at Yeager Airport in Charleston are expected to resume in the next hour.
Emergency crews are in the process of towing the plane involved in the aborted takeoff early Monday morning.
Airport officials tell WSAZ.com the runway should be open within minutes.
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) -- For a second time in just a few weeks, a pilot has been forced to abort takeoff at Yeager Airport in Charleston.
The latest incident happened to a Delta flight around 7:20 a.m. Monday.
Brian Belcher with Yeager Airport tells WSAZ.com it's still unclear why the pilot chose to abort takeoff, but the pilot did not have to use the emergency runway system, called EMAS.
Commissioner Dave Hardy was on the flight to Cincinnati. He tells WSAZ.com it was quite an ordeal.
"We were going down the runway and when we got about two-thirds down the runway we had to abort take-off," Hardy said. "We blew two tires on the right side, bringing the plane to a skidding stop."
The pilot told the passengers they slid about 300 to 400 feet before it finally came to a stop, according to Hardy. The plane was about 500 feet from the end of the runway.
Earlier this month, a US Airways flight aborted take off at the airport causing it to skid into the E-MAS. In fact, construction on that system was expected to get underway Monday.
No injuries have been reported.
46 passengers and three crew members were on the Delta flight 6121 from Charleston to Cincinnati.
The aircraft is currently disabled on the runway with two blown tires.
Commissioner Hardy tells WSAZ.com he is re-booking his flight to Cincinnati and is hoping to leave shortly.
Yeager Airport will be shut down until the aircraft can be moved. Two flights have already been canceled on Monday.
Airport officials tell WSAZ.com it could be another two or three hours before the aircraft is moved off the runway.
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speaking of allegiant,they are moving from sanford to orlando ,this will make it a lot easier to get to disney,but kiss the really cheap tickets goodby.
If i read another comment indicating that large planes cant use yeager or that nothing can fly long distances off yeager's runway I'm going to go ballistic. I guess no matter how many large planes actually come and go from that airport, there will always be people too ignorant to accept realty.. or for that matter bother looking up some very easy to find aircraft performance statistics. PS, EMAS isnt just for small runways and it. JFK and MSP are a few examples of major airports with the exact same system. Of course the poster saying negative things about the system probably wont know what I'm talking about since they obviously dont understand aviation. Thanks to everyone who said something positive here. Everyone bashing CRW or bashing HTS or WHINING about some pipedream airport that was never built .. get a life and get REAL.
no where in this article do I see where they have put down yeager? Seems to me as if they are just stating the facts.
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