Fog ymml 21/5/09

[NickN]

Things look to be getting back to normal, nice long procession of aircraft heading down from Sydney.

QF423 delayed but not far away from YMML

SQ227 has been cleared in finally
SQ237 enroute SYD-MEL
VN144 enroute SYD-MEL
EK404 '' '' ''
QF26 " " "

[Dan Hammond]

Went out to the church this morning at the end of runway 16 and did some spotting of the diversions arriving, still a bit hazy when i got there at 11 but was'nt to bad, got a few good photos.

[Owen H]

I can confirm that it was the proverbial S***fight!

Until about 5:50 it was misty, but acceptable. Shortly after there was a go around, and the fog rolled in at about 5:55. In the space of about 2 minutes it went from 7000m visibility to 240m.

Departing was very very slow... no movement at all for extended periods until about 7:30, and then it was one aircraft at a time. There were 13 aircraft in the queue for start clearance at one point, with an estimate of 5 mins between aircraft. Rather slow, as you can imagine!

[David McNeil]

On the JQ Front.

JQ677 (DRW-MEL) VH-VQT Diverted to SYD
JQ473 (NTL-MEL) VH-VQY Diverted to HBA
JQ777 (ADL-MEL) VH-VQJ Held Departure in ADL

[Ryan N]

Does anyone know if the delayed CX flight has left MEL for HKG or not? It did not arrive in MEL until 5pm.

[Ricky T]

Ricky, please do not quote the whole post directly above you, it is not necessary. Please use the reply button instead. -mod

The flight to HKG on 21 May has been delayed till tomorrow (22 May) and it is expected to depart at 07:45am. This means there will be two CX134 tomorrow.