01-26-2025, 06:35 AM
Speaking of aviation and Kilauea and warning colors, back during the 2018 lava flows I was on the former United LAX to ITO flight. Those flights always came in from the east, landing to the west on what is called Runway 26.
As we were approaching the airport (keep in mind this flight always landed around 9 to 10 PM - so it's dark) we were getting a spectacular show of the lava flows out the left side of the plane when the Captain announces that Air Traffic Control is "rerouting" our landing pattern due to the Volcano eruptions and the USGS issuing a RED warning. The Captain was rather semi sort of humorous about the whole ordeal and said to the effect "were going to be landing "backwards" tonight on Runway 8."
Runway 8 is the same as 26, just that its Runway 26 when the jet is going west from the east and its Runway 8 when going east from the west.
So, we went back up a little and made some turns here and there and then we landed the way most Hawaiian Airlines jets come in, right over Hilo Bay and Ken's Pancake house! I had flown that flight numerous times and we NEVER landed that way!
As we were approaching the airport (keep in mind this flight always landed around 9 to 10 PM - so it's dark) we were getting a spectacular show of the lava flows out the left side of the plane when the Captain announces that Air Traffic Control is "rerouting" our landing pattern due to the Volcano eruptions and the USGS issuing a RED warning. The Captain was rather semi sort of humorous about the whole ordeal and said to the effect "were going to be landing "backwards" tonight on Runway 8."
Runway 8 is the same as 26, just that its Runway 26 when the jet is going west from the east and its Runway 8 when going east from the west.
So, we went back up a little and made some turns here and there and then we landed the way most Hawaiian Airlines jets come in, right over Hilo Bay and Ken's Pancake house! I had flown that flight numerous times and we NEVER landed that way!
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