Originally Posted by
Nightsky
But it wasn't a scheduled flight, it was a divert to an airport not used by this operator. Would they have even known it was coming to keep someone there in the first place?
True enough, but speaking from experience, if they did have someone on duty, they should have been monitoring the weather. My experience has been that when NOTAMS &/or PIREP's were issued for airfields within 100 miles of PBI, we were put on alert for possible diversons. But even so, Mesaba could have done more in terms of contacting airport ops personnel through an emergency phone list of some sort.
atp