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Video: Timelapse as Severe Weather Shuts Down Major Airport

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Key Takeaways:

  • Localized thunderstorms can severely disrupt air traffic, as demonstrated by a video showing their impact on flights around Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport.
  • The video specifically illustrates airplanes entering multiple holding patterns and the world's busiest airport appearing to temporarily shut down due to the severe weather.
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As we all know, bad weather can wreak havoc on air traffic flow for all airplanes from light single-engine propeller airplanes to heavy airliners. Here is a cool video that shows the traffic flow around Atlanta during a time of severe but localized thunderstorms.

The video shows the accelerated flight paths of airplanes going into Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, which serves more passengers than any other airport in the world with more than 96 million domestic and international passengers in 2014, according to Airports Council International.

Pia Bergqvist

Pia Bergqvist joined FLYING in December 2010. A passionate aviator, Pia started flying in 1999 and quickly obtained her single- and multi-engine commercial, instrument and instructor ratings. After a decade of working in general aviation, Pia has accumulated almost 3,000 hours of flight time in nearly 40 different types of aircraft.

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