maandag 6 april 2015

Running flat on the taxiway

Monday 6 April 2015 - second Easter day - is an official holiday on Aruba. After lunch I decided it was a good day to go spotting from a different spot around the airport. While driving to the beginning of runway 11, I noticed this unfortunate little bird leaning sidewards and surrounded by airport vehicles on the taxiway with a flat left tire. Fortunately this happened on the taxiway before take off...

Albatros is a small Venezuelan airline offering flights between Las Piedras (Punto Fijo, Estado Falcón) in the Peninsula de Paraguaná in the Northwest of Venezuela to Aruba using this Cessna Caravan C208.

Albatros (GLA) Cessna Caravan C208 YV2489 "Lomo e' Piano" @ TNCA Reina Beatrix, Aruba with a flat left tire on taxiway G.

Albatros (GLA) Cessna Caravan C208 YV2489 "Lomo e' Piano" @ TNCA Reina Beatrix, Aruba with a flat left tire on taxiway G.

Albatros (GLA) Cessna Caravan C208 YV2489 "Lomo e' Piano" @ TNCA Reina Beatrix, Aruba with a flat left tire on taxiway G.

Albatros (GLA) Cessna Caravan C208 YV2489 "Lomo e' Piano" @ TNCA Reina Beatrix, Aruba with a flat left tire on taxiway G. Full flat...

Albatros (GLA) Cessna Caravan C208 YV2489 "Lomo e' Piano" @ TNCA Reina Beatrix, Aruba with a flat left tire on taxiway G.

Albatros (GLA) Cessna Caravan C208 YV2489 "Lomo e' Piano" @ TNCA Reina Beatrix, Aruba with a flat left tire on taxiway G. Men pulling and pushing a plane...

Albatros (GLA) Cessna Caravan C208 YV2489 "Lomo e' Piano" @ TNCA Reina Beatrix, Aruba with a flat left tire on taxiway G. Oops, flat again... not working this way...

Albatros (GLA) Cessna Caravan C208 YV2489 "Lomo e' Piano" @ TNCA Reina Beatrix, Aruba with a flat left tire on taxiway G. Ok, now what?

Albatros (GLA) Cessna Caravan C208 YV2489 "Lomo e' Piano" @ TNCA Reina Beatrix, Aruba with a flat left tire on taxiway G.

Albatros Airlines on the web: http://www.albatrosair.com.ve/