The “emergency landing” on the charter flight of armed services on Monday night at Talahasi International Airport briefly closed the airport track and led to a divert one flight back to Texas Airport.
Flight passengers headed to Florida’s capital were stuck to shake up for a hotel or spend the night on the floor or hard chairs at Dallas Worth Worth, after failing to land in Talahasi.
Just minutes before the landing, which was supposed to be around 10:00 pm on August 11, the Talahasi plane was informed that both tracks were closed for landing and he had to turn, said John Matthew, a passenger. The pilot came over the homemophone and said, “Ladies and gentlemen, Talahasi Airport is closed.”
The aircraft was forced to make the trip by three and a half back to the Texas Airport, climbing around midnight, Matthew said, “It was incredible.”
Dozens of passengers are waiting for Dallas Worth an international airport to return to Talahasi after their initial flight cannot land, August 12, 2025.
Without a formal notice from social media airport employees or otherwise, reports on fire trucks and tracks on the slopes bounced around social media. One person publishes that the incident is because the charter flight, full of military officials, who returns from a monthly stay in California, had an accident during the landing.
Aviation Deputy Director Vanessa Spolling has confirmed this account in an interview with Talahassi Democrat. Spoulding said the final destination of the charter was intended to be Talahassi, but around 9:00 pm pilots – who transported members of the National Guard – called to ask for an “emergency” because of the aircraft that was experiencing hydraulic problems.
She said the airport immediately coordinates and communicated very closely with its airline partners. From there, it is assumed that the airline communicates with its passengers.
“This is what we do, we handle such things and sabotage every day,” she said. “We are trained for this; our team completed the training exceptionally … I think our team did an exceptional job. This was an extremely positive answer from our team.”
However, passengers said they were in the dark.
When they landed in Texas, Matthews said the airline blamed Talahasi International Airport for a mixture and would not provide them with food or accommodation vouchers, so they had to pay from their pocket.
“The hotel here at the airport is $ 400 a night, so I said I heard with that and took Uber to Motel 6,” Matthew said.
Matthew said he believes that Talahasi International Airport has “some explanations to do” because “it seems that no one knows what’s going on.”
Later, passengers learned that one track was closed due to construction and the other was closed as the disabled aircraft was stuck on the asphalt.
By 10:40 Tuesday, nearly 80 people were still waiting in Texas to return to Talahasi after a long sleepless night. Matthew said they were given a little information about what had happened, and after the pilots and flight attendants landed, they went without a word.
A charter plane transporting members of the National Guard was to make an emergency landing at Talahasi International Airport, August 11, 2025.
The track was cleared in about an hour and a half, said Spalding and no one was injured. “Although it was a pity and uncomfortable for passengers, the good news is that the plane landed 181 passengers and crew safely and we are very, very proud of the response of our team.”
FAA is investigating the incident on an airplane belonging to Eastern Airlines, a carrier who terminated operations in 1991, but later reborn to focus on charter and freight services.
The social media passenger wrote that the charter plane made “more difficult than the usual landing” and that they “almost exhaust the track and collide with the perpendicular track for other aircraft.”
He said the plane was sitting on the track for more than two hours and no explanation was given within an hour when the pilots inform them that the tires should move and have to cool. “Long in the evening, but everyone is fine,” he wrote.
Before the details of the “emergency landing” become clear, the lack of notice caused fire from Red Tape Florida, a website managed by former Tallahasesee Democrat Skip Foster publisher, which is now heading Hammerhead Communications, a public relationship company.
The blog site, which does not reveal its customers, is a consistent critic at the airport in its mission to “the light on the good, the bad and the ugly” of the bureaucracy in Florida.
“You may think that an airport with 58 full -time employees and a $ 19 million budget will be able to tell the public what is happening,” the Red Tape Florida article said. “You will be wrong.”
Local government reporter Elena Barrera can be found at ebarrera@tallahassee.com. Follow her at X: @elenabarreraaaS
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