FlyerTalk Forums - View Single Post - Typhoon HATO
Thread: Typhoon HATO
View Single Post
Old Aug 23, 2017 | 8:37 pm
  #101  
Pickles
FlyerTalk Evangelist
All eyes on you!
20 Years on Site
 
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Boston, Jo'burg, HK
Programs: AA EXP, Hyatt Lifetime Diamond, CX Gold, Mrs. Pickles travels for free
Posts: 13,873
Originally Posted by 1010101
It would be very dangerous to have ground staff out operating heavy equipment on an airfield.
There are a number of citizen-reporter videos out there from Hato showing trucks keeling over, heavy dumpsters and other loading equipment shuffling wildly all over the place, a construction crane doing wild 360s, scaffolding smashing into building windows, people getting knocked over by the wind, and the clincher, a truck overturning and crushing its owner to death.

And airports are full of loading equipment, trucks, and things that swing in and out. Plus things that fly.

I guess christep grew on up on the French Lieutenant's Woman coastline, but to me Hato was a one in a 5-10 year event...

Pickles is offline