Severe Damage from Friday Storms Clobbers Major Airport
Lambert-St. Louis International Airport is closed indefinitely
after severe storm damage on the evening of Friday, April 22.
Initially, four people were transported to area hospitals with
minor injuries. All inbound and outbound flights are cancelled at
Lambert until further notice pending safety and operational
assessments to determine the full extent of damage to the airport
complex and the surrounding area.
"(A)irline pilots’ bodies don’t consider
whether their plane is transporting pallets of cargo, military
equipment or troops, or commercial passengers when it comes to
feeling fatigued." Source: ALPA President Capt. Lee
Moak.
The rate of departure or closing of a target relative to the
radar antenna at which cancellation of the primary radar target by
moving target indicator (MTI) circuits in the radar equipment
causes a reduction or complete loss of signal.
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