Sun, Apr 24, 2011
A Few Arrivals Only -- Some Departures Return On Sunday
Lambert-St. Louis International Airport (KSTL) tells ANN that it
is re-opening less than 24 hours after it sustained extensive
damage from a storm Friday night. The National Weather Service has
confirmed that damage at the Airport was part of an incredible
trail of destruction caused by an EF-4 Tornado. It was the
strongest tornado to hit the St. Louis area since 1967. As many as
nine in-bound flights from three airlines (AirTran, Delta and
Southwest) were scheduled to land at Lambert after 5 p.m
(Saturday). The Airport and airlines are working to restore a
majority of inbound and outbound flights for Easter Sunday, but a
full schedule of flights will take a few more days because of heavy
damage to the C Concourse. Lambert is working to temporarily move
four airlines off that damaged concourse to vacant gates in
Concourses B and D.
Travelers or people planning to pick up passengers at the
Airport are still urged to contact their respective airlines for
more specific information regarding the return of departing and
arriving flights at Lambert. Lambert has been operating on
generator power since the Friday storm. Full power is expected to
return sometime Saturday evening, which will help the Airport and
the airlines restore operations more quickly. Saturday afternoon,
Missouri Governor Jay Nixon toured the storm devastated areas in
the St. Louis region including Lambert.
"It is absolutely amazing that an F-4 Tornado would hit an
airport and a highly populated area and it have zero fatalities,"
Nixon said during a news conference Saturday afternoon. "It's
almost divine intervention when you look at the damage."
Lambert employees, contractors and mutual aid workers worked
overnight and through Saturday to clear debris from the damage
caused when the Tornado blew through the Airport blowing windows
and ripping off a major section of the C Concourse roof. Five
people were treated and released from the hospital suffering minor
injuries. Work continues to board up windows and address other
repairs so flight operations can begin. There is no timetable on
when the facility will be fully restored.
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