Saturday 8 July 2017

Spotting Saturday Morning

As our flight was coming into Brisbane last night I noticed the extremely low cloud cover. It was so low you could only see the tops of the largest buildings in the city. As we continued our approach I was expecting the flight to do a missed approach and climb, but we continued in and landed around 5.15pm. As I drove home I was amazed at the amount of thick fog on the ground. As the evening went on the fog got worse and Brisbane Airport ended up closing just after 7.30pm.
Flights were put in holding patterns for some time in hope the fog would pass, but it didn't. Flights ended up diverting to any available airport, some went to the Gold Coast like the late evening China Airlines, some went to the Sunshine Coast. The smaller aircraft opted for Hervey Bay and Gladstone. We had diversions to Rockhampton, Sydney and the evening Emirates A380 went to Melbourne. The Emirates B777 which comes in around midnight also diverted to Melbourne. Having said all that, I went out to the airport this morning thinking the diverted flights would come back in, but the only one that arrived was the China flight from the Gold Coast. The Emirates A380 will depart Melbourne tonight at 5pm arriving here just after 7pm which would be its normal arrival time. The Emirates 777 will also come in around midnight.
Below are the photos from this morning

EMIRATES A380-861 A6-EEQ (CN 141)


STATE OF QUEENSLAND CESSNA 560 VH-PSU (CN 5600515)

BRISBANE CITY

KOREAN AIR A330-323 HL-8002 (CN 1576)

SINGAPORE A330-343 9V-SSF (CN 1609)

ALLIANCE FOKKER 100 VH-FKJ (CN 11372)

STATE OF QUEENSLAND CESSNA 208 VH-PSV (CN 20800410)


JETGO EMBRAER 135 VZJG (CN 145522)

CHINA AIRLINES A330-302 B-18316 (CN 838)

CATHAY PACIFIC A330-343 B-LAC (CN 679)


NAURU AIRLINES B737-3H6QC VH-VLI (CN 27125)

UNITED STATES AIR FORCE KC-10 87-0119 (CN 48305)



CHINA EASTERN A330-243 B-5937 (CN 1468)

SINGAPORE A330-343 9V-STW (CN 1447)

QANTAS B747-438 VH-OEE (CN 32909)


EVA AIR A330-203 B-16311 (CN 693)

PHILIPPINE A321-231 RP-C9916 (CN 6363)

VIRGIN AUSTRALIA B777-3ZG VH-VPF (CN 37940)

QANTAS A330-303 VH-QPH (CN 0695)


AIR CANADA B787-8 C-GHQQ (CN 35263)


CHINA SOUTHERN A330-323 B-5966 (CN 1625)




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