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Sydney Airport
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YSSY
| Airport | |
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| ICAO: YSSY – IATA: SYD | |
| Summary | |
| Name | Sydney Airport |
| Region | Asia and Pacific |
| Territory | Australia 
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| Location | Mascot, New South Wales |
| Serving | Sydney |
| Elevation | 6.401 m 21 ft 21 ft6.401 m |
| Coordinates | 33° 56' 23.37" S, 151° 10' 31.93" E |
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| METAR | |
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| Observation | YSSY 151530Z 30005KT 9999 FEW045 21/15 Q1022 NOSIG
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| Station | Sydney Airport |
| Date/Time | 15 February 2019 15:30:00 |
| Wind direction | 300° |
| Wind speed | 05 kts |
| Lowest cloud amount | few clouds |
| Temperature | 21°C |
| Dew point | 15°C |
| Humidity | 68% |
| QNH | 1022 hPa |
| Weather condition | n/a |
| BS | |
|---|---|
| Tag(s) | Bird Strike |
International airport serving Sydney, Australia.
Climatology
Temperate Marine climate/Oceanic climate (Köppen climate classification Cfb). Moderately cool summer and comparatively warm winter
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Accidents & Serious Incidents at or in vicinity of YSSY
- A332, Sydney Australia 2009 (On 4 July 2009, an Airbus A332 being operated by Jetstar Airways on a scheduled passenger flight from Sydney to Melbourne carried a 750 kg ULD which had been expressly rejected by the aircraft commander during the loading operation without flight crew awareness. There was no reported effect on aircraft handling during the flight.)
- B703, Sydney Australia, 1969 (On 1 December 1969, a Boeing 707-320 being operated by Pan Am and making a daylight take off from Sydney, Australia ran into a flock of gulls just after V1 and prior to rotation and after a compressor stall and observed partial loss of thrust on engine 2 (only), the aircraft commander elected to reject the take off. Despite rapid action to initiate maximum braking and the achievement of full reverse thrust on all engines including No 2, this resulted in an overrun of the end of the runway by 170m and substantial aircraft damage. A full emergency evacuation was carried out with no injuries to any of the occupants. There was no fire.)
- B738, Sydney Australia, 2007 (On 14 July 2007, a Boeing 737-800 being operated by New Zealand airline Polynesian Blue on a scheduled passenger service from Sydney to Christchurch New Zealand commenced take off on Runway 16R with asymmetric thrust set and veered off the side of the runway reaching the intersecting runway 07 before rejected take off action initiated by the flight crew took effect and the aircraft came to a stop.)
- B744, Sydney Australia, 2007 (On 15 April 2007, a Qantas Boeing 747 flew through a microburst as it began to flare for a daylight touchdown at Sydney and a hard touchdown accompanied by activation of the onboard reactive windshear warning followed. A go-around was flown to an uneventful further approach and landing. The Investigation noted the absence of an LLWAS, that the ‘dry’ microburst involved would not have triggered an onboard predictive windshear alert had such a system been fitted and the failure of ATC to fully communicate relevant wind velocity information. The hard landing was judged to have been inevitable.)
- DH8C, vicinity Sydney Australia, 2008 (On 26 December 2008, a DHC8-300 being operated by Eastern Australia Airlines from Moree to Sydney made an auto ILS approach in which became de-stabilised and was continued as such until a stick shaker activation occurred.)