Brac airport reopens to all aircraft
(CNS): The Charles Kirkconnell International Airport on Cayman Brac is back to full capacity and the Cayman Airways Limited (CAL) jet service returned to its regular schedule on Sunday, now that the Cayman Islands Fire Service on the Brac once again has two fire trucks operating in its Aerodrome Unit, according to the Miguel Martin, Airport Manager on the Brac for the Cayman Islands Airports Authority (CIAA). One truck was damaged when it overturned on the runway on Thursday, 5 January, during a mandatory speed test.
Both officers inside the truck at the time, Jason McCoy and Garfield Ritch, were hospitalised but have since been released.
Martin said that the fire service has since sent a truck from Little Cayman that is equipped for both the Domestic and Aerodrome units to the Brac airport, where there must be two trucks to maintain the Category 6 status in order for aircraft with larger wingspan, such as the 737 CAL jets, to land.
One truck is sufficient for the airline’s Saab and Twin Otter aircraft and for small private planes, and the Brac airport was open to the smaller planes the same day as the accident.
The CIFS Domestic Unit on the Brac has sent one of its trucks to Little Cayman. This truck is sufficient for the landing strip on that island so that CAL’s Twin Otter aircraft, the only commercial planes with routes there, can land, Martin said.
The cause of the crash has yet to be determined pending the completion of the ongoing investigations.
Category: Local News
bracker welfare social service support puts burden on govt and working class and ultimately drives up cost of living in cayman islands!!! govt have to tax more to support most brackers through social services….A+B=C……simple mon! and yas i am a hard working bracker….you guys being unfair …….
5:44. i am a bracket y know. both parents from spot bay…mon! dont wanna work. only want handouts….tha why julie y moses will never be moved. all one needs to do is ask fpr social service y promise to bote for them??? when someone wants to start business venture over there. you all raise war…..why?
cayman brac= welfare state. end of story.
Blame the politicans, they giving them social services money for votes
Well done to everyone that made this happen!
Common sense prevails.
Love it or leave it alone. Some people will never understand and that’s a good thing for the rest of us. GCM has plenty of room for small minded people. Stay put.
Excuse me 3:49 but I am Jamaican and don’t appreciate your crass little sarcastic comments about the Brac.
It has a combination of retired and working persons and it is wrong for you all in GC to display your childish and jealous comments about the Brac people. Get your facts straight. To all the workers and persons that worked to get the fire truck from LC we all should say a big thank you.
The loss of the fire truck surely means loss income for CB and we are thankful for the large jets returning back on schedule.
Again, thanks for everyone that work together to make a fine community.
Jcan worker please ignore these idiots on here. They are probably the ones laying about down here in GC and carrying out the robberies. Cayman Brac is a beautiful place with hardworking industrious people. Like in GC there is unemployment .
great. give the 10 percent working class something to do over there…meanwhilw the other 80 percent that are on social service drink. fish. y be merry…..what a life fa them brackers??
Bobo you sound like you really know this place, sounds like you must have worked for NAHWGIU (Need a Handout – we got it unit) – also known as NAU with the F’N Driftwood Minister in charge – collusion/corruption/incompetence – all together no matter which colour political shirt you wear we got it for you – free food, free rent, free electricity, free water, free propane, free CINICO, free school lunch, free school exam fees, free school uniforms/supplies, free clothing.