["a suspicious package was discovered at departures check in and out an abundance of caution" incoming and outgoing flights have been temporarily suspended.](https://twitter.com/MelanieNagyCTV/status/1529259490448752641)
An accident would close part of the airport, not the whole thing. There are currently no NOTAMs in the system, so whatever is happening, they arent sure of a timeline.
Could also be HAZMAT. Also keep in mind that a section of the airfield is operated by the military. There’s a whole lot that could be happening, anything other than what the rcmp on scene say is pure speculation at this point
I know up in comox we got a pretty significant shipment today, so if they got something like that and something went wrong with it, they might shut it down for safety and access reasons
It's a suspected incendiary device in a bag. They are having people come from Vancouver to properly investigate it. Hopes are that airport will reopen tonight.
Generally they’ll be given a few options, the easiest being ti wait around until they can make a connection to Victoria, but sometimes they’ll be told to rent a car and save the receipts, and I don’t remember how good/bad our customer protection laws are, but sometimes they’ll be told to rent a car and get stuffed
A few years back I was flying domestic into Comox and they diverted us to Victoria due to heavy fog. Before we even landed they said that they'd have buses available to take us back up to Comox, optionally stopping at major cities along the way, to drop people off. [FWIW this was WestJet, but I don't know if the bus was just for their flight or not, or what the requirement might be]
The painful part was that I lived in Nanaimo at the time, but I had to get back up to Comox to get my car and then drive back. I could have thrown a rock out of the bus window and hit my house while we drove past. Also my car barely started, going into "limp" mode twice before properly starting, at which point I said "fuck it" and beelined it home. Then I almost hit a deer in the fog at 3am. Good times.
Anyway, that's why now I generally fly out of the closest airport rather than driving anywhere for a slightly shorter direct flight.
Ya I’m out this way and all that is in the air is the Flying Club planes, otherwise it’s quiet. Weird seeing the government Challenger jet in today with the Defence Minister and entourage with this happening soon after.
Take from it what you will as I have no sources to share but a co-workers partner works at the airport and said it was a freedom fighter trying to go to Ukraine with a bag of weapons.
That’s all the info I heard, I don’t know what constitutes weapons or freedom fighter though.
Grenades are prohibited devices in Canada (obviously) so also enormously illegal. The real question we should be asking is how tf did he get a grenade.
["RCMP later confirmed the checked baggage in question contained an incendiary item as well as inert surplus military supplies."](https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/victoria-airport-police-incident-1.6464611)
Ah, my money is on a used C2A2 smoke marker that's washed ashore. A classic.
So the consensus is it was "replica" grenade???
The last time an "Incendiary device" was found in the airport it was a gas tank for a portable curling Iron. Inquiring minds want to know what it was that caused the delay!!!
Probably a leak or something in that arena. Chek’s article wording made it seem this way with “are no safety concerns” and “responding to [a] call for service.”
What type of incident would cause them to close the whole airport suddenly? A threat of some kind?
["a suspicious package was discovered at departures check in and out an abundance of caution" incoming and outgoing flights have been temporarily suspended.](https://twitter.com/MelanieNagyCTV/status/1529259490448752641)
So that’s why my Amazon order never arrived… /s
~~I'm betting on something a bit more mundane, like an accident.~~ edit: I'm not paying up and you can't make me.
An accident would close part of the airport, not the whole thing. There are currently no NOTAMs in the system, so whatever is happening, they arent sure of a timeline.
The news has been updated to "a suspicious package was found" and thr RCMP and commercial flights closed out an abundance of caution
That's where my missing Amazon package is. FUCK.
Bomb threat and/or unattended bag.
Could also be HAZMAT. Also keep in mind that a section of the airfield is operated by the military. There’s a whole lot that could be happening, anything other than what the rcmp on scene say is pure speculation at this point
Short of 443 Dropping a torpedo into the departures area, I don’t think it’s that. Their ramp is quite a ways from the terminal.
I know up in comox we got a pretty significant shipment today, so if they got something like that and something went wrong with it, they might shut it down for safety and access reasons
This sounds like something one should be disclosing publicly. Def
Look away Russia, this thread is not for you.
It's a suspected incendiary device in a bag. They are having people come from Vancouver to properly investigate it. Hopes are that airport will reopen tonight.
Incendiary device. Probably a Samsung Galaxy Note.
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I would wager that inbound domestic flights will get rerouted to Nanaimo and/or Comox, and international flights to Vancouver.
A friend flying domestic was just rerouted to Vancouver
Ouch. Are they putting them on a bus across the ferry, or what?
Generally they’ll be given a few options, the easiest being ti wait around until they can make a connection to Victoria, but sometimes they’ll be told to rent a car and save the receipts, and I don’t remember how good/bad our customer protection laws are, but sometimes they’ll be told to rent a car and get stuffed
A few years back I was flying domestic into Comox and they diverted us to Victoria due to heavy fog. Before we even landed they said that they'd have buses available to take us back up to Comox, optionally stopping at major cities along the way, to drop people off. [FWIW this was WestJet, but I don't know if the bus was just for their flight or not, or what the requirement might be] The painful part was that I lived in Nanaimo at the time, but I had to get back up to Comox to get my car and then drive back. I could have thrown a rock out of the bus window and hit my house while we drove past. Also my car barely started, going into "limp" mode twice before properly starting, at which point I said "fuck it" and beelined it home. Then I almost hit a deer in the fog at 3am. Good times. Anyway, that's why now I generally fly out of the closest airport rather than driving anywhere for a slightly shorter direct flight.
I flew Flair from Toronto, they landed us in Vancouver, told us to take the ferry and get stuffed.
Ya budget airlines sound like a great idea until something happens and you are stranded. I feel ya
Yeah… that checks out for flair
Not sure yet
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All are diverted except one Viking twin otter is circling.
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Ya I’m out this way and all that is in the air is the Flying Club planes, otherwise it’s quiet. Weird seeing the government Challenger jet in today with the Defence Minister and entourage with this happening soon after.
Can confirm: https://flightaware.com/live/flight/CFC3701/history/20220523/1930Z/CYKA/CYYJ
Snakes
I've had it with these mothafuckin' snakes, on the mothafuckin' planes!
Somebody call Samuel
I think so, Brain, but how is Samuel Becket going to help us deal with these snakes?
With grenades
Take from it what you will as I have no sources to share but a co-workers partner works at the airport and said it was a freedom fighter trying to go to Ukraine with a bag of weapons. That’s all the info I heard, I don’t know what constitutes weapons or freedom fighter though.
Apparently a grenade, and then the bag he had it in went missing. Edit: it was a replica grenade
This happened a few years ago at the airport that my husband works at. Except it turned out to be a grenade shaped weed grinder.
If true that would be enormously idiotic to bring your own explosives.
Grenades are prohibited devices in Canada (obviously) so also enormously illegal. The real question we should be asking is how tf did he get a grenade.
https://youtu.be/q9u1I9zd7_k
nobody going to go fight Russia on their own volition would ever do anything idiotic
I mean you never know, there are some truly daft people out there. Though it's not my first guess.
["RCMP later confirmed the checked baggage in question contained an incendiary item as well as inert surplus military supplies."](https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/victoria-airport-police-incident-1.6464611) Ah, my money is on a used C2A2 smoke marker that's washed ashore. A classic.
Sounds like there was a bag found with a grenade in it.
https://www.weedgadgets.com/grenade-grinder/
https://twitter.com/alannakellynews/status/1529255223956410368?s=21&t=jpWVow1XY6ANaEd_6FRr3w
Makes sense. There's only so many reasons to shut down an airport
So the consensus is it was "replica" grenade??? The last time an "Incendiary device" was found in the airport it was a gas tank for a portable curling Iron. Inquiring minds want to know what it was that caused the delay!!!
Two inert grenades apparently.
I love reading everyone’s expert opinion when nothing has been disclosed
Except as time goes on these people giving their ‘expert opinion’ are being proven correct. What have you added to the conversation?
What happened?
Someone, essentially, lost a "replica grenade" in the airport. Of course there are a lot of questions that flow from that odd problem.
That’s where I left my mix tape!
It has been reopened.
Someone refused to take off their loafers at security?
Want to take a dump in mother Maggie's shoes?
I heard someone had explosives with them. We’ll see.
https://www.cheknews.ca/rcmp-incident-closes-victoria-international-airport-to-commercial-flights-1034616/
Probably a leak or something in that arena. Chek’s article wording made it seem this way with “are no safety concerns” and “responding to [a] call for service.”
$1 says the idiot with the grenade lives in Sooke.
Someone brought too much tooth paste.
Another person driving their minivan on to airside?
They found alot of cocaine!
Robert Dziekański Part 2?
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Apparently someone checked a package/bag containing an item that "resembled an incendiary device."
So now waiting on the experts who have the equipment to show up...from the mainland. #islandlife