Equipment Malfunction Cancels Flights at P.G. AIrport
Prince George, B.C. – NAV Canada’s equipment which records weather at the Prince George Airport has malfunctioned and without that critical information, flights cannot land.
The equipment failure resulted in the cancellation of a number of flights last night, which meant there were no planes available this morning for outbound flights.
West Jet has cancelled all flights to and from Prince George for the balance of the day.
A NAV Canada technician is on his way to Prince George, and it is expected the necessary repairs will be made by this afternoon or early this evening. West Jet will reassess its plans once those repairs have been made, however, it is likely the first priority will be given to passengers who have been stranded by the unexpected cancellation of flights.
Air Canada cancelled flights this morning, but has not yet said what will happen with any flights later in the day.
NAV Canada has released the following comment, “NAV Canada is working very hard to restore the service, it acknowledges a NAV Canada Technician will be on site this afternoon, a replacement part has arrived and we hope to have the system back up and running later today.”
Central Mountain Air is still flying in and out of YXS,
The NAV Canada Technician is coming in from Ft. Nelson, and is flying Central Mountain Air.
YXS asks that all passengers, and those picking up passengers check with the airport’s website.
Comments
NAV Canada has no back-up system for something that crucial? Are you friggin’ kidding me? I hope nobody needed a medi-vac flight last night or today.
Practice runs for the Winter Games?
I would guess that Central Mountain Air could do a Medi-Vac if one was needed. They are still flying in and out of PG.
Looks like Fort Nelson was our back up plan. Hmmmmmm.
This story leaves me feeling like I’m in a vacuum. What part broke, why wasn’t there a Nav Can person available here, and how in heck does a part that records weather affect flights from landing?
Perhaps a Nav Can employee can be interviewed to put it all in perspective
for us lay people who don’t have a clue.
I wonder if this was the transportation issue that causes the blood clinic to be cancelled today. Had an appointment this afternoon and they called me to cancel.
Does not bode well for possible future cargo flights. At one time there used to be eye balls on site.
The regulars in the peanut gallery have spoken, ^^^^^^^
takes a squirrel to notice..
How often does this kind of thing happen? Is it worth it to have someone here 24/7/365 warming a seat in an office in case it does?
Furbink we all welcome you to the club.
I’m with JB on this one! This is absolutely the first time that I have ever heard of this happening in PG so it would not be a very efficient use of TAXPAYER dollars to have someone here on staff 24/7/365 just in case it does.
However now that they are flying someone in to fix this issue, I would hope that he/she is instructed to give the rest of the system a thorough going over so that some other small part of similar vintage doesn’t FUBAR the system again in the next little while.
aaaand…. the CMA flights were cancelled this afternoon! flight never made it in.
An aircraft under IFR rules to minimums without current weather reporting. If reaching minimums and no runway in sight either try again or go else where. I wonder if we are getting the whole story.
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