Friday 19 February 2010 - the snow returns!!

Overnight snow closed the airport trapping a number of aircraft at

BHX including the PIA 777 and resulting in many diversion away

to other airports including the Thursday evening Emirates 777

which positioned back to operate its delayed flight to Dubai

.

Swiss Airbus A320-214 HB-IJJ operated their morning service to

Zurich in place of the usual Helvetic Fokker 100 to help clear the
backlog of delayed passengers....

.

.... while Aer Arran ATR 72-201 EI-REI was another aircraft that

had been trapped at the airport overnight
.

It was not only BHX that was suffering from the weather -

City Airline Embraer 145LR SE-RAC diverted in due to poor

visibility at Manchester
.

Royal Danish Air Force Hercules C-130J B-583 was a morning arrival

to collect patients off the RAF Tristar medevac flight....
.

.... departing back to Copenhagen....
. .... while RAF Tristar C2 ZE706 continued onto Brize Norton
.
Atlantic Airlines Lockheed Electra G-LOFC remained parked on
Taxiway Lima undergoing further maintenance