Nice Red Learjet 31A to LGA

[PhilDernerJr]

I saw this one inbound on FlightAware:

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/0837262/L/

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N314SG

Belongs to Bend Properties.

This plane just landed on River Visual 13. Rare approach for a rare plane.

[Matt Molnar]

Beats the boring white ones. Weren't they using 4 all day?

[PhilDernerJr]

For some reason, they switched to 13 for a short while. Shortly after that plane landed, they went back to using 4.

[cancidas]

they switched to the localizer 31 approach due to the smoke from that fire in brooklyn. the smoke was cutting right across the approach path of ILS 4. i spoke to a few crews that said they had to break off the ILS, go around the smoke and then reaquire.

they were landing 31 and departing 4 well after my shift finished, which was 1330. airplanes arriving from the south were vectored around over LGA at about 800-10000 ft and then brought in for the localizer approach. an interesting day, that fire was the topic of choice on most of our conference calls this morning.

[PhilDernerJr]

The plane came last night. The fire started this morning.

[cancidas]

phil, do you know what time they switched back to 4 landings? the fire was mostly out by the time i got home around 1430.

[PhilDernerJr]

phil, do you know what time they switched back to 4 landings? the fire was mostly out by the time i got home around 1430.

The only information I know about was the night BEFORE the fire, when there was no fire and it was not a factor in runway usage.

[Laxgoaly]

That guy is a regular @ Jet Aviation over here at KTEB... I wonder what he was doing over there...

[SCOTYDEMCO]

I was there both Saturday and Sunday from about 3:30 to 5:30 and they were landing 4 at those times. There was a fire as well over the weekend in BK, as the smoke could be seen from plainview park. A seperate fire from the big one Mon-Tues in BK.

[cancidas]

see matt, that's what happens when you don't read....