African Elephants Destined for Henry-Doorly Zoo Arrive at KOMA

[tyketto]

Lots of coverage going on in the midwest for this:

http://www.wowt.com/home/headlines/The-pachyderms-progress--flying-elephants-inbound-371779592.html
http://flightaware.com/squawks/view/1/24_hours/new/54011/Eighteen_elephants_are_bound_for_the_U_S_after_being_loaded_on_a_cargo_plane_in_Swaziland_Africa
http://www.omaha.com/living/live-updates-omaha-zoo-s-elephants-land-at-eppley-airfield/article_8cb7d120-e64c-11e5-ba4e-73270f81e4b5.html

Flight for this started obviously in Swaziland, then over to GOOY to KAFW, then KAFW - KICT, then KICT - KOMA. The Omaha World-Herald has a livestream going on for this right now, while the other news stations are covering this.

I did find this in the archives for today, as KOMA is covered from the TRACON all the way down. I don't have the means currently to edit the clips from the archive, so I'm linking to them. At the TRACON level, this starts at the 25:00 mark (2155Z). Handoff to Tower is at the 2202Z mark.


http://archive-server.liveatc.net/koma/KOMA-App-ZMP-Mar-11-2016-2130Z.mp3
http://archive-server.liveatc.net/koma/KOMA-App-ZMP-Mar-11-2016-2200Z.mp3
http://archive-server.liveatc.net/koma/KOMA-Mar-11-2016-2200Z.mp3

EDIT: I just realized that in my reporting of this, the numbers were off. Only 6 made it to Omaha, while an average of 5 each were dropped off at Dallas and Wichita. I'll see if those clips are available as well.

Here's the flight info for the flight:

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/NCR805/history/20160310/1934Z/GOOY/KAFW
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/NCR805/history/20160311/1530Z/KAFW/KICT
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/NCR805/history/20160311/2200Z/KICT/KOMA

BL.