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Old 18th March 2017, 11:00 PM
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Exclamation 2 PAN flights within 10 mins of each other?

Listening to the ATC I thought I heard a puzzled Qantaslink a/c with a medical emergency claiming 16R priority as "the PAN aircraft", only to be told that there was another PAN a/c 7 minutes ahead of them with "one engine shut down" and, because a runway inspection would be needed after it landed, they would have to accept 16L or stay aloft until 16R had the all clear. Needless to say they elected 16L but, just as they were established on 16L, 16R was declared available and they made a quick switch with a steeper descent from the sound of it!

The two ATC archives I downloaded from https://www.liveatc.net/archive.php for YSSY Tower/Approach are UTC 17/03/17 0030Z and 17/03/17 0100Z which include the period from approximately 11:48 am Friday Sydney time when the first PAN call was made from REX768 through to when 16R was re-opened following its vacating and a runway inspection to verify that no debris had fallen from the exposed engine or anywhere else.
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