"Did he go around for wind shear?" "Hold on, I'll ask him." "Yeah he's not busy or nothing so go ahead and bug him." Lmao

Amazon "Your package went by air, we just have not found where it landed yet."

Legend has it JetBlue 1500 is still in their hold pattern

lol "Yeah, he's not busy or anything, be sure to bug him"

Best line: 7:02 "Those bins are taking on airplanes.."

Tower: "FLL Tower, tornado, possible pil... possible deviation, you were not cleared to enter runway, please report when ready to write down a number"

FedEx new economy delivery system via tornado...Arrival time, location and condition of contents not covered by insurance.

I was the first officer in the SW plane they keep showing and none of our audio was in the clip. We were talking to north ramp and I am the one who told them that it looks like a tornado on the field.... shortly after they shut the airport down. We had to taxi west bound as there were several small funnel clouds above us right after the first Tornado passed. That was a crazy day for sure.

You get a Bin! And you get a bin! And YOU get a bin!

Jetblue 1500 sounded like the pucker factor was maxing out on that go-around. Can't blame him.

So that's where my package went...

“Yeah, he’s not busy or anything, be sure to bug him.” I love pilots who can crack jokes every now and then. But wind shear is no joke, seeing the Mentour 360 video of trying to keep a plane under control during wind shear, he had to have his hands full for a bit.

*I'd like to say thank you to Carter as always and the WX radar he provided to let us understand what was going on right over FLL.* I have another audio from just before all the mess started which is really interesting as well. Thumbs up if you'd like to listen to that as well :)

“Tower, what are the winds?” “Uhhh we got 140 at 20. I recommend you don’t fly today.”

"The tailwinds are too much for us to land on 10R" "Okay, you want to try 10L?" "Ummmm..." "Yeah, he's not busy or anything, be sure and bug him." LOL

Tower: We got a Tornado on the airfield.. Pilot: Can i take off now?? ...BOOM luggage bin to the WIng

When you're sitting in a vehicle designed for flight and a massive wind gust in a cyclonic fashion approaches near you I'm sure it requires calm nerves and doubling up on underwear.

Years ago we were flying into airport in Kansas and pilot announced, "Tornadoes folks so we're gonna land fast!" He went down super fast for landing due to tornado string! I was little and it scared me so badly. My ears couldn't take the pressure change so 1 eardrum ruptured. I never saw any Tornadoes that day but sky was so green as we walked from plane to airport. Hail, wind, and rain whirling around.

Tornado 1122 you are clear to land take 10R or whatever you want.

Great one this and a tough day for all at the airport. I LOL'd at the "yeah he's not busy make sure to bug him" comment at 05:20. That guy cracked me up

Jetblue basically: Yeah that ain't gonna work

Remember the tornado that hit STL in 2011. That was worse than this one. Wasn't an unbroken window in the terminal with everything blowing in the concourse. I have seen security videos but never the ATC for that day. Love to hear that one.

I was working on a boat at Harbor Town Marina, just south of the airport that day. All day there were towering cumulus clouds just to the North, it was beautiful at the Marina. Then it just got pitch black, I saw the tornado as it hit the Matson freight terminal at Port Everglades....

10:43 "... hold short of Charlie-1." "Why??"

Both tornadoes that hit Ft. Lauderdale were EF0 on the Fujita scale, meaning sustained winds of 65 to 85 mph (105 to 137 km/h). Florida has a very high rate of tornadoes, but most are EF0 or EF1. These are small and rarely travel more than a couple miles/kilometers on the ground. So Florida tornadoes aren't as menacing as what most people think of: the wide, strong tornadoes that hit the Central US and can travel on the ground for 20+ mi (30+ km) (some can even travel over 100mi/160km!!) and have winds over 200mph (320km). Of course, even EF0 tornadoes are a major hazard to aviation, especially to aircraft at low altitudes at/around airports.

Man, all that checked luggage blowing across the ramp. This is why you carry on!! :)

I loved being able to see shots of the Doppler as well as some video of what was occurring on the ground in this video. I just can't believe I missed this video a few days ago

6:38 "Over where the Fedex is parked the containers are flying!"

That Jetblue 1500 was really having some hard time their, they probably went really near the tornado

For everyone wanting the Cuban crash: "He's not busy or anything. Go on and bug him for that."

“JetBlue 1500, cleared to land, wind is at 260 knots from all directions.”

It is surprising that this doesn't happen more often. Tornadoes love flat open ground and there is no place more flat and open than an airfield.

Imagine sitting there in a little Cessna - all that flight time with nothing on the Hobbs :)

Sorry, FedEx. That will not be the world on time! Great job to all! 🌪🌪🛫✈️🛬

faa like "so atc did you give clearance for a tornado?" atc like"no the pilot just did what he or she wanted and was drinking and tossing fedex bins at other air planes." FAA "so the tornado was acting like a child and tossing its toys arround?" atc "no my children listen to me. this pilot ignored everything i said and we needed to work arround it.'

2:53 FLL Ramp's sentence after "National Jet" Lot of bins, luggage bins that's moving around there

This explains a very strange conversation I heard out of KRST on Sept 20th when a Delta A320 was diverted away from KMSP due to severe weather here. The pilot landed and immediately asked Tower of possibility to evac A-320 and if they (KRST) were equipped to deplane A-320 at a gate. Pilot was VERY concerned about risk of tornado .. it was DAL 1103 from KFLL!! I think the pilot on the radio with KRST Tower Thursday is the guy on the radio on DAL 1103 with KFLL Tower. I guess I understand more why he was so concerned.

Twister 1704, Which gate would you like to go to?

I just love how there’s a tornado heading through the field and some of the pilots were more concerned on how long they’re gonna be sitting there...

Jet Blue 1500, wind at 290 gusts up to EF2.

so seat belt lights on and remember to duck and cover... use they first bin if it does not kill you to shield yourself from the other bins and the flying kids.

I was on a plane due to land atFFL a half hour after this. After six hours at Ft Myers we finally arrived at FFL seven hours late and then waited three hours for a gate.. Not my. Best experience.

Our Shop is NE of the Airport and a few years ago I heard the weather guy on TV say there is a Tornado N of the Airport So like a typical Oklahoman I ran out of the Office and sure enough there was a funnel just West of us LOL

When will somebody develop the technology to report a closed runway to ALL pilots in the vicinity INSTANTLY? ie: Someone at the tower pushes a button "Close runway" and all pilots are notified on their instrument cluster immediately that the runways are closed, abort your landing phase and await further instructions.

man this is pretty good with the radar and video so we can see how it goes on

Holy cow. Wonder how drastic the airspeed change is with a lot of gusts hence coming from a direction

These tornadoes are usually EF-0 or -1 in SoFla, but will still cause a big headache. I remember watching one in April 1990 that formed just about over my head in Boca. Tore up a few carports and flipped a truck over at the city maintenance lot.

Those bins are taking on airplanes! Lol

Next time tell the tornado to clear the airspace.... Call the military to send fighters to intercept and escort XD

FLL Tower: "Tornado is taxiing towards the east and carrying quite a lot of FedEx cargo, please hold short. No we do not have a time estimate for that."

Yea, he's not busy or anything, bug him HA

Tower, Tornado 1, on short final for 10L Ground, Tornado 2, request push back and taxi to active. Ground, Tornado 3, holding short 28R

"We have bins moving around.." lol

That sounded interesting. Wonder if you could get tapes from DFW, Will Rodgers, And other airports in tornado alley to see how they handle these situations?

Possible FedEx bin deviation.

Sounds strange that pilots could not see the twister, but at that altitude everything is vague. I agree with the ones that said they would just shut down their engines and wait. Can't play with a tornado! But, the video showed how difficult the twister was to see. The power alone lets people know that it is dangerous. Thanks for this video to show us how calm ATC is and that they have a sense of humor.

Breaking news: Fedex express harnessing the power of weather to speed up the delivery process.

Alternate thumbnail: "Unidentified tornado without transponder violates FL Bravo"

I feel bad for those people’s luggage

Happened at my local airport KAPA sadly I was stuck in a school sheltering in place. I couldn’t listen to the atc

Thank goodness none of the aircraft were struck by the tornado.

Are you maybe able to do the ATC of the Cubana Flight 972 Disaster?

10 April 2018 at 3:25 p.m. EDT Fort Lauderdale - Hollywood International Airport TORNADO Rating: EF-0 Length: 3 miles Width: 60 yards National Weather Service, Miami South - Florida (Storm Survey): Multiple eyewitness videos showed a tornado touched down along the northwestern side of Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport near I-595, leading to damage to cargo and storage containers in the FedEx facility on the north side of the airfield. The tornado then moved east-southeast along the airport's northern taxiway, causing damage to a jet bridge on the north side of the terminal. The damage path becomes diffuse as it likely crossed Perimeter Road and US 1 along the immediate east side of the airport. The tornado then moved into the extreme southern end of Port Everglades, where multiple cargo containers were flipped and damaged, along with eyewitness reports of port-a-johns being tossed about. The tornado then likely crossed the intracoastal waterway, and moved across the barrier island within Dr. Von D. Mizell-Eula Johnson State Port before moving offshore into the Atlantic Ocean.

The tornado first touched the ground at the edge of the airport: nwschat.weather.gov/p.php?pid=201804110239-KMFL-NOUS42-PNSMFL The chance of that happening is very small. It is very surprising that a small plane would alert the tower first about the rotation. Doesn't ATC have a radar that can detect rotation? If so, why didn't they detect it earlier? Rotation begins in the clouds then drops to the ground. I'm not a meteorology expert, but I doubt that process would be instantaneous...it probably takes a few minutes, which would have given radar and ATC watching the radar the time to detect it and alert aircraft (even if it was something like 30-60 seconds, that should still be time for software to detect the rotation signature and display an alert/indicator). SIL86 is a tiny 30-40 passenger propjet for intrastate flights in Florida and to the Bahamas. It would have been worse for them than JetBlue (probably an A320/A321). I recall a watching an air disaster show episode about a Delta flight that crashed short of the runway during a downburst in the 80s, prompting better weather radar including wind detection at airports.

Thunderstorm-1 V1. Rotate.

do the atc for Dulles Airport KIAD during that tornado warning. The St Louis one back in 2011 would be cool to hear too.

1:44 autopilot disconnect noises .

Is it just me or does FLL have a lot of staff with thick New York accents?

just curious is the audio for these videos played in real time or are there gaps in communication that get edited out

bank angle, bank angle, bank angle (fedex bin flies by)

Hope everyone was ok tornados ain’t something to mess around with I like how everyone was so calm

Buncha fair weather flyers...

I live like 3 minutes away from the FLL airport and I don't remember this at all!

I could imagine some pilot: "So the chance of wind shear huh?"

poor Jetblue 1500 was going through it, so many alarms in the cockpit

The subtitles are priceless oml

With all that cr ap flying around they should all have shut down and been inspected once the weather had naffed off.... Unless people suddenly don't mind their company engines ingesting FOs

The first sec I saw the title I thought it would be about the fighter jet tornado (panavia 200 tornado). So something like a fighter pilot reenacting the Top Gun tower fly by... But than I saw the thumbnail and I was like 'Oh... its just about some serious swirl of nasty wind...'

That was wild

Hey, can you get the ATC from the Cuban flight that crashed? RIP to the 110 people who sadly passed away from that

FLL Tower Tornado 357 on final runway 28R

Is the ATC for the St Louis International Airport tornado on here?

Why shit always happens in Fort Lauderdale?

In case you were wondering what happened to your luggage that day.

Does FAA Radio Etiquette utilize the word, "Break" or the phrase, "Break, break, break" when trying to get an urgent message through. There was an unidentified station transmission while FLL TWR was sending radio traffic. My old section chief used to say, "shut the fuck up you're in a fire mission!" I probably would've done the same

be kindda cool to see the views from the pilots and the tower o-o

Next to a bomb or a fire and an airport this is everybody's biggest nightmare not only do you have potential damage from debris you also have to be concerned about damage the ground equipment and also injury to your personnel remember an airport is flat space with as few Hills as possible around it I'm glad everyone was okay but quite a few people needed a drink afterwards an ef-1 or 0 at an airport is not a joke anything higher and you're talking major damage

Goddam FedEx

Gusts to 54. EF-0 tornado on the property. RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!

I'm just an aviation/ATC follower because I find it interesting, not a pilot. Is there really no way for an airport to know that there is a tornado aside from direct visualization? That's what it appears happened. Like, no warnings on radio or weather service? That's a little scary 😱

Only pilots could sound as bored as Midwesterners when pointing out a tornado.

so when a tornado strikes a large airport do they have to initiate a ground stop? (stop all departures and arrivals and have all incoming flights divert to alternate airports)

Don't lie to me, you lost my luggage. lol I had to put some humor in there, yikes tho

Wish there was more like the reopening of the ramp

I don't know why they didn't just shut down the airport right away?

Yea he's not busy right now, just go ahead and bug him... can you tell him to shoot me a text while you're at it?

"Some luggage bins went on the runway" ah so thats where my checked bag went

Tower can we take off with one wing???????

I guess a tornado or at least all that debris could cause severe damage inside an engine... do planes have to be inspected after such an event?

Did the lady at the beginning go on a break? She is not heard again.