Robin(at)PaintTheWeb.com
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 Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2011 1:59 pm Post subject: RV10-List: Aviation Related |
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Chris,
I have no idea but my best guess is that the airport was shut down after the quake as something that large would have had controllers and ATC working with planes in the air to reroute to safety. Further guessing that it takes some time for airlines to make executive decisions on these matters and then finding the right crew, fuel, preflight etc… My guess is nothing was moving or flying before the tsunami hit. I have goggled the earthquake / tsunami timeline but I have yet to find anything specific so I don’t know if the water hit 5 minutes after or 45 minutes after. The closest I could find was a mix of GMT and Video with a time code from a news helicopter. I am only guessing the earthquake hit at 46 after and the tsunami came in at 12 after the hour or about 26 minutes later. Below is a photo I found that looks like the wave front approaching the airport taken from the other side of the airport. There is other footage of 7 - 25’ green houses being taken out in 4 seconds. That puts the approximate speed of the surge front at 30 MPH.
Sorry for all the guessing,
Robin
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From: owner-rv-list-server(at)matronics.com (owner-rv-list-server(at)matronics.com) [mailto:owner-rv-list-server(at)matronics.com (owner-rv-list-server(at)matronics.com)] On Behalf Of Chris Colohan
Sent: Saturday, March 12, 2011 9:14 AM
To: rv10-list(at)matronics.com (rv10-list(at)matronics.com)
Subject: Re: RV10-List: Aviation Related
Those are the first pictures I've seen of airplanes at Sendai.
I notice this airport also has gates (aka, it services airlines). Does anyone know if any big iron was at the airport when the quake hit? Where are those planes? Did they manage to scramble them into the air before the wave hit?
Chris
On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 8:54 AM, Robin Marks <Robin(at)painttheweb.com (Robin(at)painttheweb.com)> wrote:
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Sendai airport was inundated with cars, trucks, buses and thick mud deposited over its runways. NHK television transmitted aerial images of flood waters engulfing the airport, where survivors clustered on the roof of the main building.
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