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hahaha, "Speedbird another 50 yards or so." "Can you give that in metres?" lol.

7:53 engine 31: "50 yards" , speedbird: "can you do that in metres?" had me in stitches

Love hearing BA pilots on the radio - always so relaxed yet professional! You'd think they'd be sipping on their cup of tea whilst this whole thing was going on!

Absolutely professional especially for the airport which rarely handle A380s.

You’d be a bit confused I guess if you thought you were heading to London and woke up in a hospital in Minneapolis instead.

E31: Another 50yards would be fine sir Speedbird: nah mate, we dont do that here 🙌

love the BA call signs "speedbird" 👌

Like the controller planning ahead with the plane 45 min out from landing.

That was handled very professionally even for an airport that sounds like it doesn't usually take 380's

My home airport. So cool! Our poor guys in the tower had to look up what an a380 looks like though.

Actual call sign: Speedbird 6B Super ATC: Speedbird 68 Heavy Shit's hilarious, love it

I still remember that day... I was pissed cause it came in 2 hours after my shift when i was a ramp agent with Sun Country at the time. Now im with Swissport Fueling. Thats who does fueling at MSP. When something like this comes in that the fuelers are NOT trained on, its the supervisors who do it. I heard stories from my co-workers when an Antonov 124/225 comes in, they have to have a crew member who can translate it for them cause the fuel panel is in Russian. As for the A380, ive seen the fueling panel. Its crazy.... Only way to fuel that A380 on the runway is by a 10K tanker.

In 1956, while the new MSP terminal was under construction a friend of mine, whose father was an Army general, took us on a visit to the room where the air traffic controllers were working. Being 10 years old at the time, all that I remember is that the room was dark and that most of the light in the room was coming from the controllers screens. In 1962 we toured the new terminal before it was in operation. Unlike today there were only 2 concourses. Instead of the multiple parking garages there was one very large parking lot.

Omgggg the meters killed me, and literally struck me when he said “So?”

Take about BA pilots being professional, I've seen one having a cup of tea when his 777 was getting pushed back in Sydney, Australia got a photo for it too. Lol.

Damn. Minnesota nice meets British manners. I've never heard so many "please, thank yous, and yes sirs" in my life lmao.

This video is an exellent reminder why you should always be alert when crossing ANY runway, no matter if they are listed as "active" in the ATIS or not. Just one medical emergency is all it takes and suddenly you have someone landing on 35 (of all places) when runways in use are 12R and 12L. Now... nothing happend here, not even a close call, but I thought it was a nice little reminder not to think "well that runway is closed anyway" when taxiing...

Can you do that in meters :D

The gate confusion was funny to me.

Nice clip. Particularly enjoyed the use of the map and the plane and vehicle icons. But it must be an absolute nightmare for an airport to handle an impromptu arrival of one of these goliaths, what with the airport having a limited number of reinforced taxiways capable of handling their incredible weight.

Love the use of the maps!

BA: Do u do that as metres? Ops: Of course! ... BA: So? Ops: (off frequency) wtf did he say?...

Can you do that in meters HA. Got a right chuckle out of that one. Good man.

MAC firefighter did not get the little bit of British humor thrown in there.

Watching this just thought about the fact that I was on an A380 that diverted due to a medical emergency, there was even that "is there a doctor on board" announcement. It was an Emirates flight into Sydney that diverted and landed at Perth, turning an already long flight into the longest of my life. It was a long time between the emergency and landing in Perth -- we were over nothing but ocean with nowhere to land until we reached Australia's west coast. This was in 2010, or possibly 2009 or 2011, I've lost track. I never thought much about everything that had to gone on behind the scenes and the comms with ATC, or that one does not land an A380 just anywhere. Off now to see if there's a video of it! (Though maybe a bit too long ago for that.)

Another top notch video VAS.

At 8:03 he doesn't say "so", he says "Just shout".. meaning just say when to stop.

I’ll slam the brakes on lol.....then the fire chief didn’t know what the distance was in meters ....😂

Haha this is amazing. My wife and I were at the airport waiting to go to Vegas and I freaked out when I saw the 380 and my wife didn’t understand why I was nerding out.

MSP has two terminals. Lindbergh is larger and dominated by Delta. Humphrey is off to the side and takes numerous smaller airlines. Planes have to commute to Humphrey from the runway. Also love hearing the Minnesota accents on the radio.

British Airways forced to land at an unscheduled airport and the BA pilot has to tell the ground controllers which taxiways can handle his aircraft. That’s pretty cool.

Captions in red is difficult to read unfortunately

“Can you do that in meters?” 🤣🤣🤣. That’s hilarious.

“I got a question for ya”

I was wondering why I saw a BA A380 on Flightradar24 from MSP a few months ago, we don’t get many heavy’s here anymore, largest I have seen is a 744 but very rarely

Great coordination here between MSP ATC, Ops and ARFF. Keeping everybody involved and solving problems.

I love how funky our airport is at MSP. Big enough to be a (former) major airline hub, but not big enough for A380s... not incredible amounts of traffic, but 4 funky runways because Air Guard and MN weather.

Loving the new maps.

Yay finally a video on Minneapolis my home airport!

Good video. I've always wondered how serious medical emergency has to be to make the emergency/medical landing. If it is serious like heart-attack or some seizure or stroke. Or even some temporary fainting or temporary unconsciousness for a little bit is also enough to make that landing.

"Can you do that in meters?" Yeah about 50. 1m is 1.09yds.

It's weird hearing someone from the tower speak so slowly after hours of listening to speed talkers I can barely understand. lol

We don’t normally get 4-engine planes here in Minnesota. It was a sight to see. :)

I really enjoy these videos. I was just wondering though if you offload a passenger does their luggage still go. They seem to be super strict regarding luggage if you aren't continuing on. I didn't know if an exception is made for this type of situation.

Can't believe I watched this like a little movie. Two of the most polite regions on earth meeting. Great graphics, too - just wish the font was a bit bigger. Cheers, all.

A little tounge in cheek humor there. "Can we have that in meters?" At that point I would on my phone "Hey Google, 50 yards in meters"

I love these videos but I have no idea how the pilots remember all of these instructions.

'Can you do that in meters?' The US is always different from the rest of the world.

Can you do that in meters? ha

Fun factoid for those thinking the "heavy" and "super heavy" categories are not too important: the A380 has a max take off weight of 1.2 *million* lbs and can be up to ~890,000 lbs when landing. Compared to a run of the mill Heavy at 300,000 lbs..... there's a reason these things can only operate on certain runways and taxiways; most aren't designed to handle the potential weight and size.

Wow that would have been a sight to see

7 years in the US and I still can't understand Yards!!! I got used to feet, pounds and miles somehow!!!

Note - The controller is not using the ICAO wake tubulence call suffix correctly for an A380 as it is "Super (Heavy)" - not (just) Heavy. Obviously not had too many A380's in his neck of the woods before.

Apparently Piers Morgan was on this flight. LAX to LHR

7:51 this made my day...

"Can you do that in metres"... deary me!

Does someone know what the bloody hell happened to the passenger that needed the urgen medical assitance???

7:56 can you do that in meters :D I am done :D

How often do you normally post these videos?

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Brit translation. 9.11 in the pilot says. 'OK, yeah. No, we haven't logged on so we'll log on now and well hopefully it will come through, if it hasn't though - get back to you and see if you can send it again'.

Ops44 were so polite

I'm a bit surprised that it had enough fuel to do an unscheduled landing and takeoff, and still proceed to destination.

Why taxi for so long when there is a medical emergency onboard? Would the first exit from the runway not be a good place to meet paramedics?

What was the emergency that the passenger had I like to know more about the emergency

a yard and a metre are very similar aren't they?

Damn the controller is out of breath 😆

The Tower mistaken Speedbird 6B Super for 68 heavy

I'm surprised it didn't land on runway 4 or 22

LMAO THE METERS THING

"have you got that in metres?" XD

Those who like the BA pilot's cool might like to hear Andy Green during the final run of the Thrust SSC car that gave him the World Land Speed Record:- kzfaq.info/get/bejne/sN2Yaqud0JzVYX0.html The whole calm under all circumstances thing is driven by the RAF and seems to permeate through UK aviation.

Not sure why the BA pilot requested meters. The UK definitely still uses miles, yards and feet.

50 yards further. Can you do that in meters? Haha

Anyone know why they need to do a runway check after an a380 takeoff/landing?

Medical emergency, routine operation. Priority given to the medical emergency. Normal day at the office!

can you do MSP shut down where they close the airport for weather

Do you have some atc transmissions of the BA T7 that diverted into Baku?

Metric system should really be used globally...

Is there a reason they had the plane come to the crew and remain on the runway?

Tower classified A380 as heavy😂😂

What was wrong with the sick dude or dudette?

If the Antonov 225 can do it, Speedbird A380 can do it ;).

So what do passengers who have medical emergencies have to do in this instance when they're taken to a hospital overseas? Would they have to book another flight home? In this case BA don't operate to this airport so I'd imagine they'd have to book a connecting flight?

45 minutes out? That’s one of the problems of A380! Few options to divert! If a passenger has a heart attack waiting 45 minutes can be fatal!

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Nobody took pictures?

OPS 44: "Whaa whaa whaa whaa whaa.... whaa whaa whaa whaa whaa." Tower: "copy"

This guy has never experienced an A380 (super) or speedbird😂😂

I wish one comes to Seattle one day

Why didn't they have the ambulance down off the end of the runway (30L) to save time from having to back taxi

Can you do that in meters? Yes. So...?

50 yards = 45.72 metres

I know that we should all be on metric for measuring. But there is no way my American brain could ever consider 40° really hot. Just can't do it. There is something special about the temperature going to triple digits.

Early squad

The Red phone is that the one next to The Bat phone they use in a real emergency. lol

can you do BA 747 engine compressor stall out of PHX that happened last week.. there’s actual footage of the whole thint

Do they not normally get 'super' sized aircraft fly into Minneapolis? Wonder if that is why ATC kept referring to it as 'heavy'.

Anyone know what the medical emergency was? And THANKS VASAv for all your hard work on these vids. Just awesome!