

the Friday prior.ĬBP at MLB can be contacted at 32 between 8:30 a.m. Weekend arrivals must be coordinated with the Melbourne CBP office before 4 p.m. As a user fee/landing rights port, requests should be initiated with as much lead time as possible to discuss requirements and ensure availability. Contact the CBP office for more information, including how to obtain a permit. Pilots/Operators must coordinate their estimated arrival time directly with CBP in Melbourne. MLB’s live flight schedules can be found here.įor most general aviation, overflight permits are required for travel to MLB from most foreign airports south of the U.S., including those in the Bahamas. starting March 2022.Īrriving international general aviation flights cannot be processed during scheduled international air carrier operations, including one hour prior to the operation and two hours after. Customs Federal Inspection Station is currently undergoing a major expansion as part of the airport’s Terminal Renovation & Expansion Project to accommodate TUI’s multiple daily flights from the U.K. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.MLB’s U.S. The FAA said the incident is under investigation.Ĭopyright 2023 Sunbeam Television Corp. It remains unclear what led the air traffic controller to order the pilot of the Allegiant plane to make that turn toward the east.

“If they want it, they can have it, but I don’t think I’ll ever be back on a plane.” “I told my parents, ‘It’s going to go to waste, because I’m not getting back on,'” she said. Thacker said the airline has offered the family a voucher, but she doubts she will be putting it to use. “I literally said, ‘I don’t care if all three of you get back on, I will drive myself home,’ ’cause I was not getting back on a plane.” “We were all sitting there, like, ‘We’re not getting back on a place,'” said Thacker. The airline rescheduled the flight, but Thacker said she and her family were too upset to fly again, so they drove home to Kentucky. “They both fell right beside us, and the one who got injured, she hit her head on the handrail, I guess,” said Thacker. The flight was heading back because one of them was injured. Departure is today at 21:07 EDT at Naval Air Station Sanford from Terminal A Gate 05. The estimated flight duration is 1:42 hours and the distance is 1838 kilometers. The maneuver caused two flight attendants to fall down. The national Allegiant Air flight G43200 / AAY3200 departs from Sanford SFB, United States and flies to Appleton ATW, United States.

I had to make an abrupt maneuver to avoid another aircraft,'” said Thacker. “The pilot came back on the intercom, and he’s like, ‘Unfortunately, we have headed back to Fort Lauderdale, we have turned around. The pilot had to fly higher, and quickly. “We didn’t find out until later that we actually went up instead of down.”Īccording to the Federal Aviation Administration, “An air traffic controller in the Miami Air Route Traffic Control Center had instructed flight 485 to turn eastbound at an altitude of 23,000 feet when it crossed in front of a northbound Gulfstream business jet.”įAA officials said the pilot received an alert in the cockpit warning of the Gulfstream jet heading straight for them. “Out of nowhere, it felt like I went down, because I was toward the back of the plane,” she said. Twenty minutes after takeoff, Thacker said, something happened. Thacker, who lives in Kentucky, had flown to South Florida with her family to take a cruise.Īfter a great vacation, Thacker said, the family was heading home on the Allegiant flight, which took off just before 1 p.m. “My first flight was my way to Fort Lauderdale, so this was my second flight, going back home,” she said.
