Gun fire at BKI ???

[RobK 0]

Just listening to the HF box and Singapore working MAS2662, AXM5182, RBA874 giving them all re-routing after OLKIT via M759 G580 due to gun fire at Kinabalu?!

 

Sounds serious.

[Sanjay Thaker 0]

Surface to air gun firing usually means gun firing drills carried out by Armed Forces. Nothing very serious actually if thats the same thing happening in this case.

[Cire 0]

wow... gun fire at the airport !! ??

 

there wasn't much good news in the e-papers as well.. many jumps off buildings, thrown out, brutally battered , etc.. wow ! what's going on in Msia?

 

Surface to air gun firing usually means gun firing drills carried out by Armed Forces. Nothing very serious actually if thats the same thing happening in this case.

 

...but then the armies could just do that anytime any day? Without advising the airlines especially about the exercise? Its pretty serious nevertheless. Who's gonna pay for the rerouting and answers to the passengers who could have missed a connecting flights or an important meeting?

 

sigh..

[Radzi 2]

Direct flight OLKIT-VJN will bring you over a danger area not sure of the designation, which could means military activity ("gun firing") by the Brunei Armed Forces. If the danger area is active (as per NOTAM) then flights will be routed via OLKIT-BRU-VJN. The extra distance and time is almost negligible.

[Waiping 12]

Maybe got Somali pirates.

[zeqa 1]

^^Abu Sayaf maybe..

[Andi C 0]

What's going on?

[Sandeep G 1]

NOTAM Available from WBFC Airspace: Applicable to an area approximately the same location as WB®-517 CORRIDOR. Highlighted portions aapply to what RobK mentioned in his original post for the thread. Nothing exciting here it looks like, just navy firing exercises.

 

D124/11

ROYAL BRUNEI NAVY WILL BE CONDUCTING LIVE FRNG EXER

WI AREA BOUNDED, BY THE FLW COORDS:

 

0520N 11440E

0520N 11410E

0540N 11410E

0540N 11425E

0525N 11440E

 

BECAUSE OF NEW SOUTH CHINA SEA ATS ROUTES STRUCTURE DRG ACTIVATION

PERIODS OF THE ABOVE DANGER AREA, THE FLW ATS PROC SHALL BE ADOPTED

FOR ALL FLTS OPR AT FL370 AND BLW BTN SEGMENTS OF THE ATS ROUTES IN

KINABALU FIR NAMELY :

A )M768 BTN ASISU AND MAMOK

B )M768 BTN ASISU AND BRU VOR

C )M758 BTN OLKIT AND VJN VOR

D )W441 M758 BTN VLB VOR, DOGOG AND OLKIT

E )DIVERSSIONARY ROUTE Y445 FOR RNAV ROUTE M768

 

PROCEDURES :

 

A ) M768 BTN ASISU AND MAMOK ACFT EASTBOUND ON AWY M768

AFTER PASSING ASISU SHOULD TRACK AWY Y445. ON PASSING LEDAM TRACK

AWY M759 TO BRU AND THEREAFTER TRACK DCT TO MAMOK JOINING AWY M758

TO DEST AND VICE VERSA.

 

B ) M768 BTN ASISU AND BRU VOR ACFT OPR ON RNAV ROUTE M768 IS TO FLY

BRU/M749/LEDAM/Y445/ASISU TO REJOIN M768 AND VICE VERSA.

 

C ) M758 BTN OLKIT AND VJN VOR

1.ACFT EASTBOUND ON AWY M758 AFTER PASSSING OLKIT SHALL TRACK ON AEY

M759/B348 TO VJN VOR.ALL OTHER OVERFLTS BEYOND WBKK SHALL PROCEED TO

DEST VIA FLT PLANNED ROUTES AFTER VJN VOR.

2.DEP FM WBKK ON M758 SHALL RE-ROUTE ON AWY Y446 PADLO Y447 AND JOIN

M758 AT OLKIT.

3.OVERFLTS WESTBOUND AFTER PASSING VJN VOR SHALL TRACK ON Y446 PADLO

Y447 AND JOIN M758 AT OLKIT.

 

D ) W441/M758 BTN VLB VOR, DOGOG AND OLKIT

1.ACFT EASTBOUND ON M758/W441 TO WBKL SHALL ROUTE AWY M759.AFTER

PASSING BRU TRACK DCT TO VLB VOR.

2.ACFT DEP FM WBKL ON AWY W441/M758 SAHLL TRACK TO BRU JOINING AWY

M759 OTHERWISE AS CO-ORDINATED.

 

E ) REF AIP SUP MALAYSIA NR 05/2002 DATED 02 MAY AIRCRAFT OPERATING

ON RNAV ROUTE M768 IS TO FLY BRU M759 LEDAM Y445 ASISU TO REJOIN AND

VICE VERSA.

 

APPLICATIONS :

A ) THE BAOVE PROC SHALL APPLY 30MINS PRIOR TO COMMENCEMENT OF EACH

NAVAL FRNG DUE TO FLT TIME FM ENTRY POINTS CROSSING OVER DANGER AREA.

THE ABOVE PROC SHALL NOT BE APPLIED WHEN ACFT ARE RADAR IDENTIFIED

AND PROVIDED WI RADAR VECTORING EITHER BY KOTA KINABALU OR BRUNEI

RADAR TO CIRCUM NAVIGATE CLEAR FM DANGER AREA.

RMK/FLARES AND ILLUMINANTS WILL BE USED DRG THE EXER.

SFC TO 37000FT AMSL

FROM 02 080200 TO 02 241300

DLY BTN 0200-0600 AND 1100-1300 UTC

ON 08,10,15,17,22 AND 24 FEB 2011