Guest Posted June 18, 2019 Share Posted June 18, 2019 Toronto-bound Porter flight makes emergency landing in Hamilton In a tweet posted shortly after 11 a..m. John C. Munro Hamilton International Airport said Porter flight PD458 had made an emergency landing 'There are no reported injuries,' according to the airport CBC News · Posted: Jun 18, 2019 12:05 PM ET | Last Updated: 20 minutes ago A Porter flight has made an emergency landing in Hamilton. (CBC A Plane flying from Montreal to Toronto has made an emergency landing in Hamilton.In a tweet posted shortly after 11 a..m. John C. Munro Hamilton International Airport said Porter flight PD458 had touched down following an emergency."As the flight landed, Hamilton International Airport fire responded and there are no reported injuries," reads the tweet. "Runway 12-30 is currently closed."The flight was scheduled to take off in Montreal at 9:10 a.m. and land in Toronto at 10:30 a.m. A search of the flight's tracking number on Porter's website lists its status as diverted to Hamilton. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blues deville Posted June 19, 2019 Share Posted June 19, 2019 Is YHM a standard alternate for Porter/YTZ? YYZ is of course much closer so I am curious why they would divert to Hamilton with an emergency? No specific details are being shared. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 22, 2019 Share Posted June 22, 2019 Porter Dash 8's tires burst on landing after 'hydraulic issues' 21 June, 2019 SOURCE: Flight Dashboard BY: Jon Hemmerdinger Boston All main landing gear tires of a Porter Airlines De Havilland Canada Dash 8-400 burst during landing on 18 June at Hamilton, according to the Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB). The aircraft, registration C-GLQB, was operating Porter flight 458 from Montreal to Billy Bishop Toronto City airport when the "flight crew experienced hydraulic issues and declared an emergency", the TSB's aviation incident log says. The pilots diverted to Hamilton, where they landed on Runway 30. "During the rollout after touchdown, all main landing gear tires blew and the aircraft was disabled on the runway," says the TSB. No injuries were reported. "All 59 passengers and four crew are safe and uninjured," Porter tells FlightGlobal. "The aircraft punctured tires upon landing and stopped on the runway." The airline declines to provide additional information. The aircraft had accumulated 29,700h of flight and 27,700 cycles as of February, Cirium's Fleets Analyzer shows. Bombardier manufactured the aircraft and delivered it to Porter in 2006. De Havilland purchased the Dash 8 programme from Bombardier earlier this month. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vanishing point Posted June 22, 2019 Share Posted June 22, 2019 That’s an interesting turn of events. Glad everyone is okay. Details on this incident will be worth reading. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AAS Posted June 22, 2019 Share Posted June 22, 2019 A former Porter dispatcher told me YHM is a primary alternate. They have an agreement in place with a ground handler. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MD2 Posted July 8, 2019 Share Posted July 8, 2019 Given the traffic and its own restrictions and curfew at Pearson, Hamilton is a better choice for diversion for Porter. It's about the same air distance, and factoring in the delays at Pearson, works out to be about the same time as Pearson anyway, plus it has no restrictions, and no 800 pound guerrilla trying to block every access!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AAS Posted July 8, 2019 Share Posted July 8, 2019 3 hours ago, MD2 said: Given the traffic and its own restrictions and curfew at Pearson, Hamilton is a better choice for diversion for Porter. It's about the same air distance, and factoring in the delays at Pearson, works out to be about the same time as Pearson anyway, plus it has no restrictions, and no 800 pound guerrilla trying to block every access!! Except that you are in YHM. The diversions that just miss YTZ curfew could get into YYZ. Give the passengers a voucher for the UP Express. I remember the Worldways diversions to YHM. Always a nightmare getting the passengers to YYZ. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MD2 Posted August 16, 2019 Share Posted August 16, 2019 That may be your opinion, however over the years and through experience it's been proven that Hamilton is better, plus Pearson is a nightmare on so many levels; which is why adding more airlines and traffic to Pearson is not a viable solution and substitute for expanding the Toronto City airport. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boestar Posted August 19, 2019 Share Posted August 19, 2019 It may have been in the past but as an alternate for YTZ now it is easy to et the passengers downtown. just a voucher for the UP express and bam 15 minutes later you are at Union Station. Try to get a bunch of passengers from YHM to DownTown Toronto in under 4 hours and you would be lucky at best. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
st27 Posted August 19, 2019 Share Posted August 19, 2019 The ground transportation issues are probably minor compared to an unscheduled arrival and then trying to get the passengers off the aircraft. I don’t think there are an abundance of gates at the terminals at YYZ unless you use an fbo which create more problems with passenger handling/ground transport. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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