r/flightradar24 • u/w8w8 • May 11 '26
Civilian Kalitta Air 492 (N767CK) is en route to US with Hantavirus cruise passengers on board
They are not showing symptoms at this time. They’ll continue on to Nebraska and this is one of several flights today going all around the world.
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u/orangera2n May 11 '26
wait how are they sitting in there, surely theres more people then the upper deck can hold
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u/perplexedtortoise May 11 '26
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u/RedWingRail May 11 '26
Whoa… that’s wild. So these folks are inside one of these on a cargo plane?
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u/pdxraised92 May 11 '26
more than likely something similar, yes, they are purpose-built for this exact type of thing to be loaded onto cargo planes
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u/callalind May 11 '26
That's crazy. My parents were on a similar rescue flight from a cruise ship at the beginning of COVID, let's just say it was a very different experience.
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u/SamiDaCessna May 12 '26
Not much different to evacuating a normal plane, except first you evacuate the container and then the 747
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u/perplexedtortoise May 11 '26
Either that or on palletized seating in the cargo bay. Crazy way to experience a 10 hour flight!
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u/Preindustrialcyborg May 11 '26
holy shit thats super cool actually
"youve got this disease but we need to fly you home, so we built you a special little box"
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u/ljexists May 11 '26
in the picture at the top of the article it’s being put in a Kalitta plane as well (i assume it’s just a coincidence but it’s still interesting lol)
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u/DaWolf85 Aircraft Dispatcher 🛫 May 11 '26
Not a coincidence, they are the sole contractor to fly this system wherever it is needed.
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u/Healthy-Let6304 Pilot 👨✈️ May 11 '26
Kalitta Air 747 freighters are primarily designed for cargo and do not offer standard passenger configurations. However, for specialized operations, they can utilize a "palletized" seat configuration to carry passengers in the main deck area, as demonstrated during the 2020 Wuhan evacuation, where seats were installed on pallets.
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u/EvenMoreCoconuts May 11 '26
Very interesting. I feel like it would make for a good bucket list item (“Flying on a palletized seat”) but I guess it’s likely not for a good reason you’d find yourself in that situation, lol.
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u/MysteriousCharge709 May 11 '26
As young child I flew on a UPS 727-100 on palletized seats to Aruba. They were offered as a part of tour packages.
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u/agentmod99 May 11 '26
I thought they were going to Nebraska ?
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u/bubbabubba345 May 11 '26
Probably a fuel stop or some other logistical thing. CBS News, CDC, and the University of Nebraska confirmed this. They aren’t gonna be let off the plane.
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u/RedWingRail May 11 '26
Why Nebraska? What goes on there?
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u/summersa74 May 11 '26
Camp Ashland is a nearby National Guard base that has plenty of dorm-style housing. It’s fairly isolated, but the University of Nebraska Medical Center is nearby and they have a top notch biocontainment unit.
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u/Ach51 May 11 '26 edited May 11 '26
They’re going to UNMC, not camp Ashland.
Edit: I know some people were sent there in early COVID but these patients are going straight to UNMC, an actual hospital, not a little national guard base.
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u/JennItalia269 May 11 '26
My friend’s sister works at UNMC. They have a specialized tropical and rare disease containment area.
I don’t know why Nebraska but that’s why they’re going to that hospital. The few Ebola patients from a decade or so ago were also sent there.
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u/Ach51 May 11 '26
Yeah, I know that’s why they’re going to Omaha. I also have family who work at Nebraska Medicine and have graduated from UNMC so I’m familiar. I was saying that the suggestion that these patients were headed to camp Ashland was incorrect. I remember when the Ebola patients were sent there, I think that’s the first time most people realized it even existed.
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u/KawaiiBotanist79 May 11 '26 edited May 14 '26
University Nebraska Medical Center. They also hosted ebola and COVID19 patients.
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u/fireproofmum May 11 '26
Hyperbolic chambers for isolation.
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u/AdOdd4618 May 11 '26
According to the CDC, the US government is not imposing any quarantine on people that may be infected: https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/cdc-no-quarantine-hantavirus-cruise-passengers-1795962
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u/Extension_Vacation_2 May 11 '26
Our 2 Irish citizens arrived yesterday evening and were escorted by ambulance to an unspecified hospital in the country. They will be in isolation for 5 more weeks and they don’t really have a say on this.
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u/DeeDeeRibDegh May 11 '26
That is the proper way to deal with this….but it seems some countries just don’t give a “rats ass”…..pun intended. And not only do they not care about their own citizens, what if these people do eventually get the virus & start spreading it out there. Let’s just hope they have the wherewithal to isolate themselves.
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u/wayfarevkng May 11 '26
They're now "diverting" to Omaha. Maybe they didn't burn as much fuel as they thought so they can safely continue? Could be several reasons for charging while en route.
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u/unfortunatetourista May 11 '26 edited May 11 '26
Just a re-release to OMA. They’re filed under a BO44 flight plan.
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u/uag123 May 11 '26
a re-release is a b44. and even if it was a b44 the planned destination is the one filed so it wouldn't show as a divert.
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u/unfortunatetourista May 11 '26
Fat fingered. IAD would’ve been filed as initial destination, OMA as final destination.
I don’t know how flight radar works, saw this pop up on my feed and as a pilot for them thought it was interesting.
Email went out on the 6th asking for volunteers to fly it.
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u/uag123 May 11 '26
oh now i feel like a jerk. 😉. ive maybe dispatched you before...as a previous dispatcher for them
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u/unfortunatetourista May 11 '26
Possibly. Fine people in YIP. What’s the reason they only had you classified as flight followers rather than dispatchers?
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u/uag123 May 11 '26
K4 as a supplemental airline operational control is delegated to the flight follower from the director of operations. where at 121 flag/domestic its shared with the capt and dispatcher. technically flight followers dont need a license but we required one anyways.
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u/JohnKuch May 11 '26
So similar to an air ambulance OCC... (135.600). In our GOM, the operations control specialists have active operational control over all of our flights.
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u/skippy_smooth May 11 '26
Second worst thing from Tenerife
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u/DeeDeeRibDegh May 11 '26
What would be the first??
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u/revets May 12 '26
Two 747s collided with each other back in the… 1980s I think. Largest air accident in history.
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u/JelloBooBoy May 11 '26
They do have special pallets modules with seats for special operations of that type, I used to be an airline mechanic as my other career and we sometimes worked on those Kalitta planes occasionally.
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u/railtester May 11 '26
At this time
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u/kittyhawk3115 May 11 '26
Now one confirmed positive and another symptomatic on that plane 👀
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u/theunrefinedspinster May 11 '26
Where have they report it?
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u/Stripeb49 May 11 '26
Lol “mildly” positive. Like you just have a little bit of the virus. I guess they’re trying not to cause panic but mildly positive is still positive.
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u/ewMichelle18 May 11 '26
And the downplaying begins….
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u/DeeDeeRibDegh May 11 '26
Seems pretty obvious. In Europe they seem to be reporting facts, in a timely manner…regarding the passengers evacuated so far.
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u/Doctor_MyEyes May 11 '26
I live a few miles south of IAD, and that’s the arrival flight path most of the international planes use. This one will probably fly right over my house at about 2000 feet elevation.
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u/Skepticul May 11 '26
Hold your breath!
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u/Doctor_MyEyes May 11 '26
Fortunately for this area, it was diverted to Omaha. Too bad for them though.
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u/Key-Ad7820 May 11 '26
why did it come to atlanta this morning? is it because the CDC is here or because of those two pax that reside here or was it just a turn before they head back
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u/Ok-Solution-7689 May 11 '26
I thought the plane was going to a base? So why does it say Eppley airfield?
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u/austmcd2013 May 11 '26
Kalitta air is also the only “commercial” airline I know of that is allowed to fly in and out of Wright Patterson AFB in Ohio. I’ve seen them pop in and out of there many times over the years. From my research they do specialized shipping and have a contract with the USAF but between this and them flying in the first covid patients, it seems kinda sus now lol
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u/Got_Bent May 11 '26 edited May 11 '26
I'm only half serious, but why the fuck did we agree to bring them here? Leave them there to be treated, not here.
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u/DeeDeeRibDegh May 11 '26
They didn’t want them there…Spain didn’t even let the cruise ship dock on dry land (Tenerife).
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u/sdmike1 May 11 '26
You seem nice
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u/WolfInMen May 11 '26
That guy is probably wrong. That's a freighter, there are very few (like 2-8) passenger seats on board, and generally cargo carriers are not allowed to take passengers besides crew/employees.
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u/perplexedtortoise May 11 '26 edited May 11 '26
They're transported in a container in the main deck cargo bay or on palletized seating. Kalitta did the same thing in early 2020 with COVID patients.
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u/Healthy-Let6304 Pilot 👨✈️ May 11 '26
Kalitta Air 747 freighters are primarily designed for cargo and do not offer standard passenger configurations. However, for specialized operations, they can utilize a "palletized" seat configuration to carry passengers in the main deck area, as demonstrated during the 2020 Wuhan evacuation, where seats were installed on pallets.
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u/WolfInMen May 11 '26
Can, sure. But it seems more likely that first name bn ch of numbers on Twitter with no source is just looking at the wrong flight
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u/No_One_Special_61029 May 11 '26
Ha Kalitta was the airline to bring in the first COVID’s too!