Originally Posted by
Khantahr
The fog in the Seattle area was unforecast (until well after midnight), and Seattle going below cat 3 minimums is rare anyway, but please, do tell us how to aquire and use the crystal ball that you have.
I checked the ATC tapes at Seattle. The airport was NOT below cat 3 mins. Go listen. They never called any of the RVRs below cat 3 mins. That flight said they were fine and then came back later and said they were going to Yakima. All the 737’s got in just fine before and after they diverted. All of our airbus have lower mins than the 73’s. Was the CA high mins or was something broken on the plane because the airport was most definitely NOT below mins for any of our planes in normal ops without a high mins CA.