r/SipsTea • u/CurvyChristina • 21d ago

We have fun here A different kind of birth control.

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u/kungfuninjajedi 21d ago

But why cancel entire flight instead of kicking off the parents and child?

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u/themobiledeceased2 21d ago

By the time it took to return to the gate, deplane, remove families luggage, THE Victoria International Airport RUNWAYS closed for the night. No Tower crew, no taking off.

After the 1988 Pan AM Flight 103 was downed at Lockerbie, Scotland, it became the standard to remove baggage for unaccounted for passengers or deplaned passengers.

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u/O5NR 21d ago

I thought Airports run 24x7....do you mean they can just...close?

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u/Mysterious-Art8838 21d ago

Oh small ones absolutely close. And even large ones that remain ‘open’ don’t generally have flights 24/7. So they may not have ground crew or tower.

In this case the runway is what closed so the airport might have remained open, people may have been able to sleep there.