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One of the runway(02L/20R) was closed from late morning to late afternoon forcing all incoming and outgoing traffic through one runway. It was utter chaos as airlines had their schedules messed up. Most arrived half an hour to an hour after their STA and left an hour to two past their STD. Some arrived very low on fuel.
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Originally posted by ycp81 View PostDon't think so. The QF incident occured last midnight.
Originally posted by boing View PostOne of the runway(02L/20R) was closed from late morning to late afternoon forcing all incoming and outgoing traffic through one runway. It was utter chaos as airlines had their schedules messed up. Most arrived half an hour to an hour after their STA and left an hour to two past their STD. Some arrived very low on fuel.
Guess it may be time to use a third runway considering that Changi's growth..
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Originally posted by boing View PostOne of the runway(02L/20R) was closed from late morning to late afternoon forcing all incoming and outgoing traffic through one runway. It was utter chaos as airlines had their schedules messed up. Most arrived half an hour to an hour after their STA and left an hour to two past their STD. Some arrived very low on fuel.
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It was a scheduled maintenance. It's one of two in a year that's done during the day time hours. Most of these aircrafts circled close to an hour to land.
And aircraft on emergency can choose to land on any runway of their choice. There's no particular runway designated as an emergency runway. Although 20C would be preferred if landing from the North.
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Originally posted by boing View PostIt was a scheduled maintenance. It's one of two in a year that's done during the day time hours. Most of these aircrafts circled close to an hour to land.
And aircraft on emergency can choose to land on any runway of their choice. There's no particular runway designated as an emergency runway. Although 20C would be preferred if landing from the North.
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Rwy20C is preferable for any emergency due to its longer available length upon touchdown. Rwy20R has a displacement portion at the end, making the available runway length shorter.
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Originally posted by ycp81 View PostRwy20C is preferable for any emergency due to its longer available length upon touchdown. Rwy20R has a displacement portion at the end, making the available runway length shorter.
And I've seen quite a number of ac land on 02L/20R while on emergency or requesting for emergency stand-by. They were all SQ and coincidentally, news agencies seemed to have missed it. Hmmm, wonder why
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