Originally Posted by
Hovernut
I wish the company had copied the actual NOTAM in the exoneration email, in keeping with our core value of TRANSPARENCY! Does anyone have THE NOTAM that was in effect that day, allowing exclusions for Air Carrier Ops?
I think the NOTAM in question was FAR 07/020. They are supposed to be archived on this FAA website below but it appears that particular one has been removed, maybe due to the incident or to its unclarity??
https://pilotweb.nas.faa.gov/PilotWeb/
(enter FAR in location field on left side of screen under "NOTAM Retrieval", then click VIEW NOTAMS to display all recent NOTAMS in the database for FAR airport)
Google has the below listed as a cached webpage, and it shows FAR 07/020 was available for viewing at one time on the website. You can see that the cached webpage shows FAR 07/020 and info that mentions scheduled carriers. Don't know why they would take it down from the website. Maybe I am just missing it when I do the search. Anyone know if the TFRs and NOTAMS both get archived here? Maybe dispatch read it as the closed airport was open for regular scheduled carriers and all they had to do was contact ATC upon arrival, circle a few minutes until they got the rehearsals moved out of the way and the airliner could land? Could ATC have interpreted the NOTAM as a hard closure, not aware of the exception for scheduled carriers?
http://webcache.googleusercontent.co...&ct=clnk&gl=us
"!FAR 07/020 FAR AD AIRPORT CLSD EXC SCHEDULED AIR CARRIERS DLY 1700-2200 1507231700-1507242200"