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Providenciales International Airport (IATA: PLS, ICAO: MBPV), on the island of Providenciales in the Caicos Islands, is the main international airport serving the Turks and Caicos Islands, a British Overseas Territory of the United Kingdom. It is operated by Turks and Caicos Islands Airports Authority (TCIAA).
The weather was extremely foggy at the time, with less than 3 ⁄ 8-mile (600 m) visibility and 200-foot (61 m) ceiling, while the approach called for a 600-foot (180 m) ceiling and 2-mile (3.2 km) visibility. A contributing factor was the finding that the middle marker for Runway 32 was not functioning at the time, possibly contributing to the ...
TAF indicates that the following is a terminal aerodrome forecast. This line may also indicate an amended forecast (TAF AMD) or a corrected forecast (TAF COR) [3] KXYZ indicates the airport to which the forecast applies (ICAO airport code). 051730Z indicates that the report was issued on the 5th of the month at 1730 UTC (also known as Zulu ...
VFR / VMC visibility requirements in the US. In aviation, visual meteorological conditions (VMC) is an aviation flight category in which visual flight rules (VFR) flight is permitted—that is, conditions in which pilots have sufficient visibility to fly the aircraft maintaining visual separation from terrain and other aircraft.
"IATA Airline and Airport Code Search". International Air Transport Association. "United Nations Code for Trade and Transport Locations". UN/LOCODE 2011-2. UNECE. 28 February 2012. - includes IATA codes
Toronto Pearson International Airport experienced “extreme” weather before a Delta Air Lines plane crash-landed and flipped upside-down — including a year’s worth of snow in just two days ...
A typical METAR contains data for the airport identifier, time of observation, wind direction and speed, visibility, current weather phenomena such as precipitation, cloud cover and heights, temperature, dew point, and barometric pressure. This information forms the body of the report, consisting a maximum of 11 groups of information.
A Delta Air Lines plane with 80 people onboard crash-landed and flipped Monday at Toronto Pearson International Airport. Officials will investigate if weather played a role.