JFK Tower Being Evacuated due to Fire ?

[LGA777]

Hearing JFK Tower Being Evacuated due to a fire, looks like JFK may be a mess for a while and lots of possible diversions. Anyone else here anything ?

Regards LGA777

[T-Bird76]

Check out Flightaware, all the inbounds are circling over NJ and to the south. Very interesting. Ron how long would it take to get an emergency tower up and running?

[AA 777]

If you listen to JFK tower they are still operating takeoff's as well as landings. So if there is or was a fire they setup a secondary position really fast...

-Matt

[LGA777]

It appears it was an alarm and not an actual fire, they evacuated but FAA tower staff have returned, not really sure how big a back up this may or may not have caused.

LGA777

[T-Bird76]

Looks like the arrivals that were circling are now starting to land according to Flightaware. It looks like however UAL7274 is going back to IAD, she operates as Mesa 7274

[Art at ISP]

The news said the tower was evacuated for about 20 minutes due to a smoke condition caused by faulty equipment. The total time off line was about 20 minutes.

All should be back to normal now.

[LGA777]

I got a call from US-West (HP) dispatch re the JFK tower event, they wanted to know if we could handle Flt 12 PHX-JFK if the delays where extensive. I said is it a 319 or 320, he said neither it's a 757 ! I thought to myself, a Cactus 757 in LGA, how awesome would that be. I told him no problem, we gotcha your back, send her our way, but it was not be,
I was pretty excited though for about 15 minutes.

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/AWE12
you can see where they held !

Cheers

LGA777

[jakbar]

I got a call from US-West (HP) dispatch re the JFK tower event, they wanted to know if we could handle Flt 12 PHX-JFK if the delays where extensive. I said is it a 319 or 320, he said neither it's a 757 ! I thought to myself, a Cactus 757 in LGA, how awesome would that be. I told him no problem, we gotcha your back, send her our way, but it was not be,
I was pretty excited though for about 15 minutes.

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/AWE12
you can see where they held !

Cheers

LGA777

I almost fell out of my chair when I started reading your post, Ron. If a HP 757 had landed at LGA when I wasn't there to see it, I would have not been happy. So I'm glad it continued to JFK. :)

Incidentally, my parents flew on Cactus 12 a few weeks ago and it was an A320. A 757 would have been better.

This post should serve as a reminder to everyone that this coming Saturday, we will in fact most likely see an HP plane at LGA. The CRJ900 coming from CLT will most likely be HP Express; I am not aware of any CRJ900s painted in US Express colors (old or new).

[PhilDernerJr]

Yes, it's been a few years since I saw an America West aircraft at LGA. I'm very excited to see it coming back.