Diversions due to Air France Crash in Toronto

[yngairport]

I can name a few I saw on my flight tracker:
3 Delta and 1 USAIR To Toledo.

4 American West to Cleveland.

A ton to Buffalo

But one hell of an odd plane I noticed. .... I live in Youngstown and a BRITISH AIRWAYS 777 just emerged in NW Pa but far from Erie and I put the histories on and it had it taken off at Port Meadville. But their runway is only 5200 feet. So I am not sure about this one: BAW99

[YXU737]

YXU- about a dozen ac
Air Canada A333 from YVR
Skyservice A319 from Gander
From the ones i know

[babypurin]

KLM to Syracuse

[Genessee]

Are these all directly due to the crash or soem for the weather as well? Did the entire airport close? I can't remember now ... Getting old I guess.

[babypurin]

Are these all directly due to the crash or soem for the weather as well? Did the entire airport close? I can't remember now ... Getting old I guess.

We are assuming its either due to the crash or the weather in the surrounding area. If you think about it, it does seem to be a large number of diversions for one airport so there must be something that is the root cause of the plethora of diversions.

[Genessee]

I meant the airport was closed for the weather, but did it close as well for the crash? Or under better weather, would 23/05 still be used to get some flights in/out?

[shipcafe]

I trust that the return flight back to CDG was canceled for this evening. I haven't seen any communication on AF's site, etc. with particular details in regard to it being cxl'd.

[Genessee]

I don't think they have two here. I've seen AF/KLM/LH/OS come and then leave shortly after.

[shipcafe]

I don't think they have two here. I've seen AF/KLM/LH/OS come and then leave shortly after.

Yeah I would assume that there would not be another jet in YYZ.

[babypurin]

I meant the airport was closed for the weather, but did it close as well for the crash? Or under better weather, would 23/05 still be used to get some flights in/out?

I believe so, according to my local news, no new flights were allowed to fly to Toronto until 8:30pm due to the crash. I don't know what was to happen with the other remaining flights, but since there was one less runway, they couldn't handle all the flights so some of them needed to be diverted. It would be nearly impossible to tell whether or not the flights in question were diverted due to weather (causing low fuel) or due to increased congestion due to the closed runway unless someone worked within the adminstration of the airline.

[Genessee]

True..Dale will know what to do!

[bbuse]

According to our local news tonight flights between MSP and Toronto were cancelled after the crash.

[Legend_Airlines]

Here's a small list:

YXU - London, Ontario
YYB - North Bay, Ontario
YQG - Windsor, Ontario
YHM - Hamilton, Ontario
YQT - Thunder Bay, Ontario

Aeroflot 303 from Moscow diverted to YUL
Aerosvit 141 from Kiev diverted to YOW
AC002 from Tokyo diverted to YWG
AC087 from Tel Aviv diverted to YOW
AC116 from Vancouver diverted to YYB
AC120 from Calgary diverted to YOW
AC126 from Edmonton diverted to YYB
AC130 from Vancouver diverted to YYB
AC142 from Vancouver diverted to YXU
AC180 from Vancouver diverted to YWG
AC817 from Amsterdam diverted to YUL
AC849 from London (Heathrow) diverted to YUL
AC891 from Rome diverted to YUL
AC894 from Dublin diverted to YUL
AC907 from Orlando diverted to YHM
AC983 from Montego Bay diverted to YQG
AC989 from Havana diverted to YQG
AC1040 from Denver diverted to YQG
AC1152 from Calgary diverted to YOW
AC1172 from Calgary diverted to YQT
Air Transat 123 from London diverted to YOW
Expressjet (CoEx) 2145 from Houston diverted to CLE
Finnair 2417 from Helsinki diverted to YXU
KLM 691 from Amsterdam diverted to SYR
LTU 1580 from Dusseldorf diverted to IAG
Malev 94 from Budapest diverted to YUL
Mexicana 886 from Mexico City diverted to ORD
Skyservice 46 from Gander diverted to YXU
Skyservice 16 from Ft Lauderdale diverted to YHM
Skyservice 863 from Dublin diverted to YXU

[herpa2003]

Aircraft that diverted to SYR was 747-400 "City of Nairobi"...didn't catch the reg. on the TV news report though.

[Crazy764]

I know a BA 744 and an AC 767 diverted to YOW, as well as others.