{"id":359774,"date":"2024-11-20T10:22:04","date_gmt":"2024-11-20T15:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skiesmag.com\/?post_type=news&p=359774"},"modified":"2024-11-20T10:22:06","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T15:22:06","slug":"yvr-closes-north-runway-after-cargo-plane-skids-into-muddy-ground","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/skiesmag.com\/news\/yvr-closes-north-runway-after-cargo-plane-skids-into-muddy-ground\/","title":{"rendered":"YVR closes north runway after cargo plane skids into muddy ground\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Vancouver International Airport (YVR) has shut down its north runway after a PrimeAir Boeing 767 aircraft overran the runway and wedged itself into muddy ground nearby.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A crew from Cargojet was aboard the flight, which overran the eastern boundary of YVR\u2019s north runway at 1:45 a.m. Pacific Time on Tuesday, the airport said in a statement.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere were no injuries reported and the Cargojet crew of three were safely deplaned,\u201d officials said.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMore than 50 people from various teams … are collaborating on a strategy to safely remove the aircraft.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s unclear what caused the incident, but a team from Canada\u2019s Transportation Safety Board (TSB) was deployed to investigate.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the meantime, the airport rerouted all its flights to the south runway, officials said. About five percent of flights on Tuesday were delayed as a result.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A team including several airport partners is working to remove the plane, but the runway is expected to remain closed through Wednesday. Derek MacPherson Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

“We will need to build, essentially, a road that will allow us to bring in the equipment that will allow us to extract the plane from its current location,” airport CEO Tamara Vrooman told reporters in a media briefing on Tuesday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“What that will look like, exactly what it will entail, will require us to do some investigation on the site, but we will be on-site as soon as [the Transportation Safety Board] gives us the all clear.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Air traffic control audio indicates the aircraft cited a \u201cflight control problem\u201d just before it exited the runway, according to media<\/a> reports<\/a>. The problem involved a mechanism on its wings used to slow the aircraft, per reports. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The aircraft was reportedly carrying about 10,000 kilograms of fuel, but did not have any other hazardous cargo aboard, according to air traffic control audio.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere is no immediate estimate on how long this work will take,\u201d YVR said in a statement late Tuesday evening.\u202f\u201cThe north runway will remain closed while the site is assessed.\u201d  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A PrimeAir Boeing 767 aircraft overran the runway early Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":289,"featured_media":359779,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","categories":[99320,99317],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-359774","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-airlines","category-airports","entry"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skiesmag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/359774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skiesmag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skiesmag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skiesmag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/289"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skiesmag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359774"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skiesmag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skiesmag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skiesmag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skiesmag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}