*And this, ladies and gentlemen, is an extract of how professional these controllers and pilots worked at Anchorage! Leave your THUMBS UP for their awesome job! Well done!*

@rkan2

5 жыл бұрын

VASAviation - And this is how you do it... Airports, especially not too busy ones work fine without ATC, just the separation increases..

@elcastorgrande

5 жыл бұрын

"Professional;" is an overused word. It applies to these ATCs and pilots. And VAS.

@TheTeenOutdoors

5 жыл бұрын

Well THAT was fast! :P

@southjerseysound7340

5 жыл бұрын

@@TheTeenOutdoors I know, I wouldn't be surprised if the news channels are using him as a source. It'd be a improvement over their "experts" that's for sure.

@brianbecker3696

5 жыл бұрын

@@southjerseysound7340 The runways were inspected and cleared for operations. 2:32

this is the tower, I'd like to declare an emergency.

@airwipe1639

5 жыл бұрын

MegaMech I doo, declare

@Tornado15555

5 жыл бұрын

Fuel and souls onboard?

@weasdown

4 жыл бұрын

@@Tornado15555 "Zero fuel, five souls" "So you're emergency fuel?"

@Petr75661

4 жыл бұрын

tower, clear to land watch out!

@singledad1313

4 жыл бұрын

What is your intent?

Really impressive. There's been a natural disaster, the tower may be at risk of collapsing, and the controller still shows concern about getting the medevac plane out if he needs to go. Incredible.

@southjerseysound7340

5 жыл бұрын

ATC is like a art and it's a selfless, thankless job that nobody cares about until something bad happens. But we have the best controllers on the planet and thanks to channels like this they're finally getting a little bit of the credit they deserve.

@DT-vl8xm

5 жыл бұрын

Responsibility

@Keaton0801

5 жыл бұрын

Considering the magnitude of the earthquake, and the location, the medivac plane probably did.

@jdanon203

4 жыл бұрын

@@JohnDoe-zw6to Planes needing to land have a higher priority than aircraft already safely on the ground.

@liesdamnlies3372

4 жыл бұрын

Undoubtedly if the medevac pilot said that they really needed to leave as soon as they possibly could, those airport guys would have moved heaven and earth to get him out. Probably the only plane there who would've gotten special treatment.

The FedEX should have been given priority to land. I am expecting an Amazon package and I need it now. it’s a spare charging cable for my phone.

@asiphyn1814

5 жыл бұрын

DBR00 would u rather be delivered a broken charger or a delayed package lmao

@TKettle

5 жыл бұрын

@@asiphyn1814 whoosh

@rachidb7227

5 жыл бұрын

@@asiphyn1814 woooosh

@nursenick06

5 жыл бұрын

What a beautiful arc that made sailing right over the top...

@theredrover3217

5 жыл бұрын

LOL

I can't imagine what those FedEx pilots were thinking at that moment: on final and the tower suddenly tells you to go around in a panicky voice.

@rebelfighter5249

5 жыл бұрын

Def wake them up, that's for sure.

@sfbptank

4 жыл бұрын

@@rebelfighter5249 do you mean, shake them up?

@carolynfoster1541

4 жыл бұрын

What a recording! You hear that breathing?This is someone who handles stress all the time.....and he's hyperventilating. I'm guessing FedEx got the message loud and clear. We all saw video of the airport in Japan. No one would want to land in a similar situation.

@joynthis

4 жыл бұрын

Godzirra?

@dunning8

4 жыл бұрын

@@carolynfoster1541 sounded to me like he was running out of the building and still directing the aircraft

During the March 11, 2011 earthquake in Japan, approach control at Narita just quit talking, nothing to anyone. Dozens of aircraft inbound and nothing but static. Pilots began talking amongst themselves and someone remembered the approach freq for Yokota air base. After a few minutes of coordinating with Yokota and them coordinating with their command authority, they began bringing all of the flights into Yokota. No facilities for that many people. No customs agents. Plenty of ramp space, though. They brought them in and made it happen. Great job, USAF. To the ANC controllers who stayed on the air in spite of everything falling down around them, Outstanding!

@SI-wq8xf

5 жыл бұрын

I had been based in RJAA as well as flying out of Yokota AFB some time many years ago. When the Tsunami came to hit Fukushima and upper east coast of Japanese Main Island, I was at home in Tokyo, watching the live video of the incoming waves... Anyhow, I just want to ask you, Mr. Goeker, is your write up based on your first hand experience or anything else? I have several friends in Japanese ATC and haven't heard anything like what you report described. Consider my inquire as a mere fact checking, please. Safe flight.

@magellan6108

5 жыл бұрын

I have a few sources for this. My wife was driving that day with two friends to Yokota. The quake hit while they were en route. Comm was down, but one her friends knew Tokyo well enough to get them to Yokota. As they were approaching the base, there were airliners going into Yokota. My wife and the third lady thought they were lost and at the outskirts of Narita. The other lady was very insistent she knew where she was, but had no explanation for the airliners. They made it to Yokota, and the ramp was full of airliners from all over the world. The story they heard was the same as I related. The second source was my next supervisor. He was a Lt Col on special staff to the Wing Commander at Yokota during this timeframe. When we compared notes at that next assignment, he related the same story. I am curious about your friends' take on the events of the day. It has never made sense to me that they would stop talking. What would make sense is that their power or transmitters were knocked out, and as soon as they restored comm, they were back up and running. If you know any pilots from that day, I would like to have their corroboration, modification or even rebuttal to the story. There are a few things that speak to the veracity of the story. 1) Lots of commercial airliners did divert to Yokota. 2) Yokota's command authority was completely taken by surprise. Meaning, there was no contingency plan for such an event - no prior coordination. 3) The earthquake knocked power out, disrupted comm, and generally, scared the bejeebers out people everywhere. 4) Saving face in Japanese culture is synonymous with breathing. Your friends may be saving face for those who were on duty that day. The Japanese are very honest people, but when it comes to honor, there is a tendency at times to hedge, not lie, just hedge. Let me know what you hear. I have no dog in this fight other than to know the truth.

@SI-wq8xf

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your sincere and timely reply, sir. Let me do more research and I will get back to you.

@mgroh5564

5 жыл бұрын

​@@SI-wq8xf … Here's a link I found... www.yokota.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/411711/commercial-aircraft-diverted-from-narita-iap-to-yokota/

@mgroh5564

5 жыл бұрын

And here's one more link with more photos: www.airlinereporter.com/2011/03/photos-of-large-airlines-diverting-to-yokota-air-base-due-to-earthquake-in-tokyo/

It's amazing to see how all the pilots quickly and smoothly switched into "uncontrolled airspace mode" with the information content of their communications and announcing all of their intentions and actions to all aircraft on frequency, and maintaining the safety of the airspace accordingly. It reminds me of your earlier video with the ATC who suffered a stroke on-duty.

This remembered me the ATC that died at the Indonesia Earthquake after the Tower collapsed. Kudos to the controllers!

@VASAviation

5 жыл бұрын

Working to the last second having their airplanes in safe positions. Absolute respect.

@naamah7041

5 жыл бұрын

@@VASAviation do you have the audio for that one?

@erikjohansson1814

5 жыл бұрын

VASAviation - What option do they have? Drop everything and run?

@zanekelvinator6661

5 жыл бұрын

VASAviation - Make my colleagues look even more useless.

@ariqasym7826

5 жыл бұрын

Pablo Lapadjian If you want to see the airport before and after the earthquake in Palu, Indonesia, just wacth Capt. Vincent Channel

The tower hit turbulence on the ground

@BluegrassFilmsKY

5 жыл бұрын

That's one way to look at it.

@koverpy426

5 жыл бұрын

Turbulence on the ground: Hurricane or tornado. It's lieral ground turbulence, turbulence from the ground.

@lonememe

5 жыл бұрын

If it was a Delta tower it would have been reported as "light chop"

@TheDemocrab

5 жыл бұрын

@@lonememe If it was a Tigerair tower, the ATC guys would say "Yeah we're having problems here, we'll update you eventually" and fuck off down to the pub for 3 hours.

@joeychristiansen8701

3 жыл бұрын

Lol

Wow your dedication is incredible, can’t believe you have this up already.

@VASAviation

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you, John! Always working hard

@southjerseysound7340

5 жыл бұрын

@@VASAviation thanks, you truly do great work and its nice to see and hear facts asap.

@gtoger

5 жыл бұрын

@@VASAviation And with subtitles, no less! WTG!

@g00gle-

3 жыл бұрын

Quicker than them news

Since not all of us are here are pilots I will explain that CTAF stands for Common Traffic Advisory Frequency. It is used for non-towered Airports and as in this case ATC outages. It means that each aircraft announces its position and intentions on the frequency regularyy at key points on approach and after landing. In this case the ILS (instrument Landing System) remained operational. If that were not the case the crews would have the option to either make a full visual approach or execute a go around procedure and contact the nearest ATC Center for diversion. In IFR (inclement weather) that would be an automatic procedure. My 2 cents, if the tower had not stayed operating as long as it did and advised traffic that the runways were intact I would have diverted.

@currentbatches6205

5 жыл бұрын

"Since not all of us are here are pilots I will explain that CTAF stands for Common Traffic Advisory Frequency. It is used for non-towered Airports and as in this case ATC outages. It means that each aircraft announces its position and intentions on the frequency regularyy at key points on approach and after landing." I hope this isn't pedantry, but: (key frequency) "Petaluma traffic" (to whom the comm is addressed; traffic for Petaluma airport in northern CA) "Cessna 9er85" (who is comming) "One mile from entering right downwind at 45" for runway 29 (where I am and what I'm doing) Anyone flying in that area should know who I am, where I am, and what I'm doing.

@DavidWsTrainVideos

5 жыл бұрын

SavedForThis Fairbanks is the closest at 363 Miles away. Everything else is over 2000 miles.

@dfor

5 жыл бұрын

@@SavedForThis this why commercial flights have reserve fuel. That reserve fuel is based on the destination airport and where the flight should have to divert to in case its needed. The closest large enough airport for the flights would be Fairbanks which is just under an hour away depending on wind, so all of these flights would be carrying more than enough reserve fuel to divert there if needed.

@CurseTheDarkness

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks from us non-pilots for the description.

@nic12344

5 жыл бұрын

@@DavidWsTrainVideos The Kenai Municipal Airport is way closer at 100 km! The 2L/20R is paved and 2.4 km long.

You uploaded this before they finished inspecting the tower lol

I live in anchorage and you uploaded this before the aftershocks stopped! I’m impressed

I'm not sure what's more impressive. Your time to air, or the pilot and ATC professionalism. Cudos to all and you.

@bulldogg50

5 жыл бұрын

Cudos is Kudos, but Canadian

@elweewutroone

4 жыл бұрын

What is Cudos? What is Kudos? Is this some Spanish/Portuguese/Japanese word?

1:00 rest of Alaska pilot's message was "uhh so you're kind of on your own for a little bit"

Man, it's been two years now. My wife and I were still living in Anchorage at the time and it was easily one of the scariest moments of my life. My office building was heavily damaged along with many others. I'll never forget driving our friend home and seeing people celebrating survival by holding up cases of beer outside the liquor store. It was certainly a memorable day.

Damn. The professionalism of those controllers was extraordinary. The ceiling is collapsing, you’re atop a tower and there’s a hard earthquake shaking you, knocking all your equipment. What do you do? Well if you’re these legends you prioritise the safety of the planes even over your own. Faith in humanity bolstered 🖤 Hope everyone is doing okay, must be a horrible situation to be in, wishing them all the best.

@youngtschakaloff

5 жыл бұрын

Count to 7 billion and then tell me again that so few people can make you lose or regain your faith in humanity. Stop saying that please

@aps-pictures9335

5 жыл бұрын

WaterFucKing lol I can tell you mean well, but that’s a nonsensical statement to make.

@Luckingsworth

5 жыл бұрын

@@aps-pictures9335 No, "faith in humanity restored" is nonsensical (and cringey). If that was enough to restore your faith then you are blind to all the good that goes on around you.

@aps-pictures9335

5 жыл бұрын

Jon M hmm, yet 81+ people disagree with you. Our daily worldview is informed by our circumstance and intake of information. Our narrative on life by our personal experiences. For some we are surrounded by more evil than most, which means these glimpses of hope are perhaps a lot more meaningful. I’m very glad your life is filled with such a positive environment, unfortunately mine hasn’t been thus far. I know these actions occur, but the majority of my time is occupied with suffering and trying to alleviate it. Perhaps you may wish to re-evaluate your response and consider why you feel this makes you uncomfortable, indeed makes you ‘cringe’. That would be more productive, no?

@Luckingsworth

5 жыл бұрын

@@aps-pictures9335 There are millions that "like" flat earth comments too. Doesnt make them right. Either you have a very sad small worldview and a terrible conception of the greatness of humanity, or you are simply using an overused statement in Hope's to get attention for virtue signaling.

*_This is nothing but minor turbulence for Ryanair_*

@yas1334

5 жыл бұрын

Big facts

@scottsen2128

5 жыл бұрын

Light Chop

@VASAviation

5 жыл бұрын

Does Ryanair create earthquakes on touchdown?

@omgdann7805

5 жыл бұрын

LOL

@naamah7041

5 жыл бұрын

@@SavedForThis or Tarom back in the 90s! Their small Russian planes were going up and down, up and down lmao! I wasn't scared of flying back then, developed it later. I really enjoyed the roller coaster rides!

"FEDEX GO AROUND... FEDEX GO AROUND!!!"...... "uh... was that for FedEx?" :)

@jameswormsley460

5 жыл бұрын

hahahahahahaha wow

@ZebPalmer

5 жыл бұрын

The first call didn't sound right, for obvious reasons... Pilots are used to talking to voices that are calm, cool and collected -- that's what we hear 99.99% of the time. Go from that to suddenly out of breath, quite garbled, hollering at the radio and it's quite jarring, not something you will process the same. Always ask for repeat or clarification on any instruction you are given that you aren't sure about.

@stillline

5 жыл бұрын

Well he said "was that for Fedex 49?". Thers a bunch of fedex planes at the airport. The ATC instruction coukd have been for another fedex plane.

@milan1969

5 жыл бұрын

He did say it rather quickly - hard to understand the first time around...

@jameswormsley460

5 жыл бұрын

lol true

Tower gets their very own "Hours of Boredom Punctuated by Moments of Sheer Terror" moments...

@richardmourdock2719

5 жыл бұрын

WIth a moderate duration "7" I'll bet that tower was flexing like a fly rod. Not a comfortable place to be. Pros up there for sure.

@alternatelives8559

5 жыл бұрын

@@richardmourdock2719 Anchorage resident here; I was around 10 minutes south of the tower when the quake hit. It was a wild ride at ground level, so I can't even imagine how bad it was up there!

For context this earthquake made it difficult to stand at ground level, I can't imagine being in the tower when it hit.

@TheEmeraldMenOfficial

4 жыл бұрын

Hopefully they were sitting in office chairs. The only risk is falling over and the wheels of the chair would dampen some of the shaking...

@ravingcyclist624

3 жыл бұрын

Plus there would be aftershocks. Some very strong.

@punnequraq

3 жыл бұрын

@@ravingcyclist624 There were three above mag5.0 in the first hour following the quake

@j134679

Жыл бұрын

@@TheEmeraldMenOfficial I've experienced an earthquake in an office on the 11th floor. The office chairs make it worse as they roll all over the place.

So cool to hear this from ATC’s POV. I was working on the lower level of the airport this day. My goodness it was terrifying.

I tuned in to listen to them operating 7R arrivals and 33 departures from a vehicle next to the runway. Exciting day. Taxi was at pilot's risk.

Thank you VASaviation for getting this up so fast. And Kidos to all the controllers and pilots for their calm quick response under pressure.

And I'm flying from Anchorage to Oahu monday! It really shook my house up, toppled several widescreen tvs and all my dishes, house is ok. Got power back.

@egroenen

5 жыл бұрын

As someone who also lives in an earthquake prone area, all tvs, shelves etc must be anchored. It doesn't take long to screw everything to the walls. Especially if you have kids. A tv falling on a kids head does and has killed.

Very scary indeed. I live in Anchorage and it shook hard. Epicenter was only 10 miles north of the city at Mag. 7.0!

@laurawallace4345

5 жыл бұрын

Hope everyone is ok!

@EdgeRatedR007

5 жыл бұрын

Eric Ellis Was there any damage in the city?

@iAmAlaska49

5 жыл бұрын

Z In Chains Quite a bit. Roads have sink holes in them and power outages. Buildings have some damage such as broken windows etc.

@Bl4ckw0lf1

5 жыл бұрын

@@iAmAlaska49 Curious, does the city have any action plans online for this situation?

@cristycreates2887

5 жыл бұрын

Same here.. Hope everyone is OK!!

My grandfather used to work in the new control tower & around the airport as a radar technician for the FAA. In the 1964 9.2 magnitude quake he was here when the old tower collapsed. I got to tour the newer tower in 2005. It was pretty cool to see everything.... I also got to tour the JBER (Elmendorf) tower in 2008. Glad this quake wasn't any stronger or things may have turned out much differently!

Ladies and gentlemen this is how you get it done, equipment is getting moved ceiling tiles are falling and you still get the mission done .nothing more needs to be said

Thanks for posting same day - amazing. I live here in Anchorage and will rest easy knowing that our controllers are among the best.

4 years ago today, I had just arrived at work when the quake hit. I hurried home to a panicky and disheveled household. After picking up for a while, I sat down to check the news and found this video. Hearing the controllers handle things so well in the middle of a huge quake was calming for me. Thank you, VASAviation, for posting this so quickly on that crazy day.

I was hoping you’d have a video about this, didn’t imagine having it up so soon!

@4:17 Tower is saying "until we get the structural damage assessed.", not "they said." Still, excellent clip and kudos on posting it so fast.

@VASAviation

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you!!

@Smiley1701

5 жыл бұрын

As much as I enjoy these videos I do catch a few transcription errors in each one and they bother me more than they should

@barley-pt

5 жыл бұрын

Smiley1701 feel free to join the discord server and help with the transcription :)

@Smiley1701

5 жыл бұрын

@@barley-pt oh I didn't know that was an option, I'd be happy to help. Is it too late once the video is posted though? This one was up really fast

@Zerbey

4 жыл бұрын

@@Smiley1701 I don't think English is VASAviation's first language, so we can forgive him the occasional error.

You can hear the fear in the ATC voice at the start.

Just everybody involved was outstanding..... The ATC guy absolutely a badass.... The pilot's coordinating with each other just as amazing... And for posting this amazing video in such a short period of time kudos to you.... You are my favorite of aviation channels.... You explain it to those of us who have no experience in this whatsoever and make sense and just over the last 2 months I've learned more than in my entire lifetime about avionics.... There's probably two other ones that I really love to you and I just really appreciate the job that you guys do to get these done

Glad it was VFR conditions. Couldn't believe that controller was still in the tower.

I LOVE hearing the professional and successful way the pilots managed things without a tower in such a busy airport. And also Tower Guy, where you could hear the fear in his voice, he CLEARLY wanted to evacuate for safety, and yet he still calmly and professionally answered people and navigated for people as well as he could.

ATC and pilots are consummate professionals. Thanks for getting this out so fast. I was actually thinking how lucky people in the air during the quake were. I live in SoCal and we have so many earthquakes that it is how we stir our coffee. Glad everyone is okay.

@liammorris6354

5 жыл бұрын

Shaken, not Stirred

As always, thanks for your timely postings!

OMG... parts of the ceiling came down... that must have been a terrible shock for the controllers in the tower. I hope there were no injuries!

@iatsd

5 жыл бұрын

Terrible shock? The controllers in the Indonesian and both Christchurch quakes kept working as best they could and those were all far more serious than the Alaskan quake just now.

@CombatMedicTM

5 жыл бұрын

@@iatsd So that means one cannot be shocked by the damn ceiling coming down, because somewhere at some point someone else was not? You're an idiot.

@iatsd

5 жыл бұрын

Sunshine No, that means that people should try to resist the temptation to over react (I know, an American national sport) at something that happens all over the world without such reaction. Surprise and alarm? Sure. It's an earthquake, albeit not a major one really. (Large jolt, short duration) I just get stuck of all the melodramatic BS that Yanks insist on wallowing in. Sorry if you're so fragile that that offended you.

@jamescunningham3891

5 жыл бұрын

iatsd How do you know? Were you there? 🙄

@Astrogarlic

5 жыл бұрын

@@iatsd "Not a major one really"? It was a 7.0 earthquake that lasted for over a minute. smh

As an Alaskan this was one of those earthquakes that I still get anxious remembering, I will never forget this earthquake. Probably the most violent one I’ve ever felt,

Man if I woulda heard that guy yell "FedEx, go around!" That would freak me out a bit

I just got home, saw this on the YT breaking news feed. I wondered how soon you would have a video of this, and it's already up. That's awesome!

@rrastetter

5 жыл бұрын

Same here! Came straight here after hearing that there was ATC audio.

Having participated in a 7.8 a while back, I can appreciate the professionalism of all involved here. Life becomes challenging when mother earth is letting you know who the boss is.

Can you imagine see a perfectly good runway and then hearing atc screaming go around. That is some serious stuff right there. I wonder how much flight 94 would have gotten the news. That was sure weird listing to CTAF at a major airport.

Wow you’re fast at uploading. I live about 350 miles away from Anchorage and this earthquake managed to shake things off the shelves so it must’ve been crazy inside that tower

It was so well done don't be surprised if this becomes FAA operational policy for this type of emergency: announce to all Aircraft what the situation is on the ground ,while the staff sets up a on-the-fly Command Post using radios ,binoculars and vehicles set up along the runways.You can tell where controllers and Pilots prior experience in the military has kicked in, nerves from the first few seconds are kicked into the closet, and professionalism and concern for others comes to the front and stays there. This will be a situation that controllers not only in this country ,but around the world will be talking about for years. Ladies & Gentlemen, the bar is open you have definitely earned this round, congratulations on a job well done, and the same observation also goes in regard to the flight Crews involved as well.

This CTAF scenario is definitely going to be part of every airlines training for a while.

@itsjohndell

5 жыл бұрын

It's part of every Pilots training. Always has been.

@purpleduracell

5 жыл бұрын

But this a good sample scenario

@rachidb7227

5 жыл бұрын

Even a Cessna pilot is used to it. It's what the amateurs use every day in small non controlled airports.

@cebrady

3 жыл бұрын

It's part of every pilots basic training - everyone learns it.

Wow! I hope everyone is ok! Very professional control towers and aircraft. I just love when you get this kind of people. Even when the earthquake hit, the control was still trying to help the aircraft and the aircraft landing on this airport. Good job to all!!!!!

I have been in 3 earthquakes while I was stationed in Alaska - 2 out at Shemya and 1 at Anchorage. The Anchorage quake's epicenter was 40 miles west of us, was a 5.5 on the Richter scale and shook us for a solid minute. I felt TOTALLY HELPLESS.

It was exactly 15 years ago the same weekend when i landed at ANC for a one hour fuel stop on the way to Taipei. My Airbus A340 was ok, but the window seat sucked. Three of our backup computers failed after landing and we were stuck in downtown Anchorage for about 23 hours until the tech guy flew in from Taipei. It was 10 degrees F with snow on the ground.

Wow insanely quick upload. And a thumbs up to the controllers, they handled the situation well.

As soon as I heard that there were ATC issues surrounding this event, I >knew Great job, and many thanks.

That Cathay pilot has such a reassuring voice

@rayg9069

5 жыл бұрын

Sounds like an Australian drawl.

@DARANGULAFILM

5 жыл бұрын

@@rayg9069 I wonder if he is Matt Lawrence, who lived in Roleystone, Western Australia when he was a kid. I understand from my late aunt he went on to fly for Cathay. He would probably be close to retiring now.

@jrobles033

4 жыл бұрын

He’s actually British. He’s a instructor at my flight school

I live just 29 miles north of Anchorage. We got rocked hard. We ran outside after the second earthquake and could see a convoy of planes circling around us first heading north then back south to Anchorage.

A quick suggestion, if you read them on older videos like this. I think it would have been helpful to include 30 seconds or so of radio chatter before the earthquake, so we could get some context for the sudden change in the towers demeanor.

I’m glad there are people who keep their cool in a bad situation and keep doing their jobs. Cheers to everyone involved whether on the ground or in the air. I’m not sure I could do that.

Insanely quick upload!

Some of those pilots likely haven’t been flying in uncontrolled airspace for many years and went straight into they themselves delivering the situational awareness that is normally given to them and others by controllers and their radar screens/procedures and pilot position reports. Uncontrolled airspace RT is there so everyone can form a picture of what’s going on. Hear it all the time flying GA but very cool to listen to the switch to self-declaring traffic on airline ops and also the way the controller intermittently slotted back in in what appeared to be a semi-involved as he was able to fashion.

Anchorage controllers are absolute best anywhere. Just one more proof of that fact. All or us pilots owe them a huge thumbs up and thanks. 👍👍

@naamah7041

5 жыл бұрын

You're a pilot? What kind of plane do you fly?

Makes for a very busy uncontrolled airport for a while. Great job!

Turned on my phone after school and seen the notification. Definitely shocked me.

My nephew works at ANC approach... professional level headed group. As a pilot this is what I experience just about everywhere I fly. SNA is my home airport.

This is true professionalism. As their workplace is being thrown about them they continue doing their jobs. Not even a moment to catch their breath. Well done!

It hit, and tower immediately had trucks drive the runways checking for cracks! Cool heads, pucker factor high!

Great video! Well done!

I live in ANC. That damned earthquake was my alarm clock that morning and it was something else! Hell of a job these guys did, keeping their cool and everything on track.

Great video, as always! However, at 3:00 the ATC allows Connie 936 to run down 7R and exit at F, but at 3:20 he clears Fedex 49 for 7R. I'm waiting for the untrimmed version, since there might've been a confirmation from 936 that wasn't picked up (or there was a long period of silence?). Just my speculations, I found that interesting.

@VASAviation

5 жыл бұрын

Hi Erik, That situation is not included in the untrimmed (shows APP in the majority) but don't worry because that might be due to the silences trimmed.

Wow, that's actually a picture of the Air Traffic Controllers station in Anchorage. Impressive

Oh god I remember this one. I was in my house and we had a lot of stuff falling and breaking. Didn’t even think of how the airports would’ve dealt with it. Especially up in those towers, how scary!

Brilliant operating as a unicom. Under the circumstances being heavy with freighters who may be low on fuel this is a smart idea. I'm not sure Fairbanks can deal with a large number of 747 and 777 freighters and it's what 200-250 miles north. Is Elmendorf AFB open to detoured traffic, if they weren't affected by the quake?

I live in anchorage, and i was expecting this vid

@VASAviation

5 жыл бұрын

Here you have it!

everybody is professional as heck but you can still hear the tension in voices. great to listen to though thanks for posting.

Such composure... when you have a very scary event but know people are counting on you.

.)Dang, you are fast, and I love it, Keep ut the good work :)

I was working on the south side of the runway when this happened. Pretty crazy earthquake. And they had tsunami warnings on top of that.

Hope the pilots realized that they could be landing during aftershocks. There have been a bunch not to far from the airport. Wonder what Elmendorf had? They were two miles from epicenter.

Respect to the control tower professionals . As I non- pilot I am asking how were in in progress flights handled ? Did controllers work from somewhere else?

@tomhejda6450

5 жыл бұрын

You always have some long-range radio available, AFAIK.

Good job ANC tower for staying in that long and helping aircraft land

Great Video!

I'm based at JBER. I was wondering when this video was going to pop up. We are all ok. Lost power for a while but ok for now. Needing prayers.

How did they all stay so calm? Great work

@tomhejda6450

5 жыл бұрын

Well, if you want a reason for extensive and regular training, psychological testing, etc., here you have it.

Great job!

god, the panic at the beginning is just terror inducing

Having gone to that airport thousands of times to catch flight I always would look at that tower and wonder what it would feel like in a quake up there. I was in a communications facility about 10 miles from the epicenter and crap was flying all over.

As bad as it can be for someone on the ground it’s really got to suck for someone in a tall thin building like a control tower.

Nice radio report, crazy part in 64 I bet if they had planes on their way to Anchorage even just for a fuel stop at the time, especially for International Flights, they couldn't land, especially when the tower collapsed

Funny I was actually wondering what would be the go in this situation the other day 👍

The tower never declared emergency with a mayday or pam pam call. Even though, they hit severed turbulence lol. Are they now golf or echo airspace?

Nice catch, and amazingly fast, it just happened.

Extremely well done.

@captainjoe, that wasn't you in the Cargolux, was it?

I'm curious what the inside of the tower looked like, if they said the equipment was everywhere.

Absolutely professional!!!

NZ 283 (scheduled SIN-AKL) did a medical emergency landing at BNE. Care to do a video?

What a morning that was, felt like a truck was driving through my room

Good practice for the Zombie Apocolypse. Pilots you're on your own!!!

Damn, even after the earthquake they are still managing the airport...imagine all that chaos

How do you report souls is there are only gingers onboard?

excellent work.

7.0 magnitude in a tower... The tower must have been high-fiveing the pavement from side to side holy!