MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Damaged cargo aircraft exposes vulnerability of Brazil’s airports’ system
Brazil’s poor infrastructure was again confirmed over the weekend at one of Sao Paulo international airports, Viracopos, when a damaged cargo aircraft blocked activities forcing 450 flight cancellations and overloading the already saturated capacity of other air terminals. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesWell Mercopruts, if you did some “web based” research, you would not publish a bad (copy paste ) article that Viracopos is in Sao Paulo.
Oct 15th, 2012 - 10:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Viracopos, Campinas, Sao Paulo STATE.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viracopos-Campinas_International_Airport
@1 Fido Dildo
Oct 16th, 2012 - 03:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0So your post invalidates the article, that Brasil has infrastructure problems, does it?
Heavy jets (or any other plane in reality) with blown tyres are not unknown, especially on cargo planes.
Without knowing the extent of the damage it does seem a lamentable oversight by the airport authorities not to have reasonable access to the necessary lifting equipment. If the leg also collapsed it does mean other equipment would be required to lift the plane without damaging it or risking a fire.
Perhaps the airport authorities should ask Britain for assistance in overcoming future problems of this nature and education in risk management.
The evidence (it has happened) would suggest they need help.
Chris@2
Oct 17th, 2012 - 07:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0That’s a fact: most of our airports lack the most basic infrastructure
and, even if they didn’t, removing a fully loaded cargo aircraft is no easy job anywhere.
Besides, the removal is the airline’s responsibility.
3 me@ez
Oct 17th, 2012 - 09:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“removing a fully loaded cargo aircraft is no easy job anywhere”
Absolutely correct.
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