TSUNAMI floods MALE AIRPORT

[jetbluedog]

http://us.news1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20041226/i/r1258446002.jpg


Male (pronouced "Mall-ie") Airport completely flooded by Asian quakes' tsunami that kill more than 7,000!! BIG ONE!! 8.9-magnitude, 5th largest ever RECORDED!

 

[typhoonpilot]

I think that is an old photo of Male when it isn't flooded. I'm told the airport is closed and we have an airplane stuck there, although that isn't verified. Hope to get some pictures to see what the truth is. In the meantime just hoping that there aren't too many fatalities.


Typhoonpilot

 

[JetSpeed219]

In the meantime just hoping that there aren't too many fatalities.
Typhoonpilot

Too late for that...........

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - An earthquake of epic power struck deep beneath the Indian Ocean on Sunday, unleashing 20-foot walls of water that came crashing down on beaches in seven Asian countries across thousands of miles, smashing seaside resorts and villages and leaving more than 11,350 dead in their wake.

 

[ATR-DRIVR]

I think that is an old photo of Male when it isn't flooded. I'm told the airport is closed and we have an airplane stuck there, although that isn't verified. Hope to get some pictures to see what the truth is. In the meantime just hoping that there aren't too many fatalities.


Typhoonpilot

Hope your fellow crewmembers are all ok.

 

[BizPilot]

Last I heard.............22,000 people wiped out.

.......DANG.........

 

[typhoonpilot]

Saw a company e-mail that said that all crew and staff are okay. The plane got out today.

Typhoonpilot

 

[jetbluedog]

Up to 58,000......and counting

 

[lymanm]

77,000

Unthinkable. The death toll just keeps rising.

 

[BORAT]

Anybody know if Maldivian Air Taxi lost any Twin Otters?

 

[Brownshoe]

Recieved this report from a friend yesterday.

"everything is OK here.
And nobody that I know is hurt.
Compare from what I hear on the news we are nothing Compare from Sri Lanka,
India and Indonesia.
The wave here came gradually..
I was Taking off (very lucky) from Male airport and while taxing we saw a
lot of water crossing the road-seawall that separates from the ocean......
few minutes after in the air we saw many resort floaded and we heard on the
radio that our base was evacuated and that out docks were washed away... so
pretty much we staied in the air for an hour and half and watch few bungolow
washed in open sea, and later we land together with 3 other airplane that
were circling waiting for things to calm down, in the same lagoon.... and
waited to hear news from our base...
....by evening we made it back.....
Our base is trash, we have no more maintenance...but incredibly nobody got
hurt......few resort are closing down.....in the local outer island they are
talking of maybe 100 or 200 people missing.. nothing compare to the rest of
Asia.

...so now we are doing a lot of flights to take tourist out of island....
many want to go home anyway and we are doing medivacs charter.....

Of our 19 Twin Otters only 2 got light damge to wingtips and stuff like
that... the other company little worst they had two airplanes hitting each
other while on the docks...

Anyway I can see things change around here for a while and we might slow
down quite a bit....so there is a good chance to be sent home(???) for a
while."

 

[rvsm410]

Jesus, can you imagine, its over 114,000 now and climbing....what if something like this happened in the Atlantic, with the big cities, holy cow..we could loose millions......the Florida coast line alone would be devastated....My prayers go out to them.

 

[Hugh Jorgan]

Male (pronouced "Mall-ie")

Actually, I believe Mall-ay would be a more accurate pronunciation. Anyway, wasn't sure if Tony was following this thread. Here are some photos I found interesting.
http://www.ctv.ca/generic/WebSpecials/tsunami_gallery/pilot/image01.html

 

[VampyreGTX]

Jesus, can you imagine, its over 114,000 now and climbing....what if something like this happened in the Atlantic, with the big cities, holy cow..we could loose millions......the Florida coast line alone would be devastated....My prayers go out to them.

Won't happen, ever (at least not the same scenario as now). There are NO tectonic plates in the Atlantic Ocean that would create an earthquake like the one that generated this tsunami. The plates in the atlantic move away from each other; therefore the pressures and earthquakes are thousands of times lower in intensity than what can be generated from plates that collide and push into each other. The main threat is the volcano on the canary islands where an entire side of the mountain is slowly slipping into the sea. If the volcano erupts (it is active and erupts every 25years) and the eruption is a large one, the entire side of the mountain would collapse into the sea, generating a tsunami that would make this one look like a ripple. Do a search on google and you will see plenty of news stories on this over the last year or so. They say the wave generated could be well over 100 meters high, and travelling over 500 mph would take 8-12 hours to reach the US coastline. Though that would leave considerable time for warnings, but still, they are giving the chances of a large eruption of that scale to be very low.

 

[sky37d]

What about Diego Garcia?? Has anyone heard anything about that place??