Flashy lights at JFK

Bit of excitement as we left JFK for England last night. We were on British Airways and pulled away from the gate about 10 minutes late. Then we stop and out my window I see three fire trucks and at least a dozen police cars speed out onto the runway. A few minutes later our plane pushes back further and turns so I can see all the emergency vehicles have circled a big plane just sitting on a runway in the dark. Couldn't see the name of the airline, but just a strip of dark color on the tail.

We taxied for a very long time, and watched several planes land. Finally the pilot comes on and says another plane had some problems so they had to shut down half the runways at the airport. Thus arrivals and departures had to share the same runway.

Have no idea what happened to that other plane.

Labels: airports, nyc

- posted by Amy @ 2/11/2007 04:53:00 PM