Cyclone response, roof plant and debris, Townsville
Emergency removal of failed roof plant and delivery of temporary generators 36 hours after a category three crossing.
The constraint
Access roads were cut by floodwater and debris for more than a week.
Failed rooftop units were a falling hazard over an occupied loading dock.
Cold storage tenants needed temporary generation inside 48 hours or lose stock.
The lift
- Load weight
- 1,650 kg
- Aircraft
- Black Hawk UH-60
- Line length
- 45 m
- Crew
- 8
- Exclusion zone
- 80 m
- Lift cycles
- 12
01Operations were flown from a staging area at the airport under a coordinated airspace plan.
02Damaged units were secured and flown to a ground laydown for assessment and disposal.
03Generators and fuel cells were placed on hardstand beside each cold store.
04Twelve cycles across a single flying day, 36 hours after the crossing.
The numbers
- Time on site
- 5.1 hrs
- Flight time
- 3.6 hrs
- Crane alternative
- Roads impassable · no crane access for 9 days
- Road closures
- 0
On site
Client record
“Roads were still cut. The aircraft was the only way anything heavy moved that week.”