I was listening too. the Ground controller was a real pro. He was calm,
clear and very patient with all the snafus.

Also, there was a King Air with an emergency on Approach frequencies. He
lost his instruments and was on a no-gyro vectors. Wow, I couldn't imagine
flying in that crap (PIREPs of SEVERE turbulence below 800 ft by...a B757!)
with full instruments but with partial panel--damn!

Liveatc.net has it in its archives: Mar 8, 1900-1930 JFK APP/DEP
The aircraft tail number was N277GE. At about 07:55 the King Air asks what
altitude he was at. So apparently, his altimeter was inop. He was above the
clouds at least. At about 09:05, the ground controller confirms that they
have an emergency in progress for RWY31R to another aircraft saying that he
was in a "dire situation." Interesting listen if anyone has the time.
Everyting turned out OK.

Marco Leon


"John Kirksey" wrote in message
news:INCXd.32269$uc.31534@trnddc09...
I was working late last night and decided to tune into JFK Tower/Ground on
liveatc.net. I don't know what it looked like up that way last night, but
it
must have been pretty crappy out. In addition to the wind shear - 35
gusting
47, +/20 on final - I tuned in right after an airliner turned off 31L
between taxiways, getting stuck half on and half off the runway. The viz
must have been bad, because the tower couldn't see where the plane was,
and,
after sending several planes around (which had to suck, because the line
of
landing planes was looooooong...), eventually closed 31L for a time.

I was also "watching" the Passur AirportMonitor for JFK at the time and
saw
several bizjets that had their destination as TEB landing at JFK, so
either
TEB was closed or they just couldn't make it in there.

Nights like that make my cube look pretty good after all...

John K.
Student Pilot (for at least another week)





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