Video Footage of Hurricane Irma

Video: As Hurricane Irma Loomed, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Safely Relocated 62 Aircraft from Florida to Alabama  

Embry-Riddle Commends Support from Auburn University and Atlantic Aviation

In the rainy early morning hours of Saturday, Sept. 9, 2017 – about six hours before Hurricane Irma churned into the lower Florida Keys as a Category 4 storm – 62 flight instructors at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University piloted a fleet of small airplanes to two locations in Alabama.

The pilots, navigating 44 Cessna 172, 9 multi-engine Diamond 42, 8 Piper Arrow, and 1 Beechcraft Baron aircraft through a thick band of rain, were grateful to be hosted by Auburn University and Atlantic Aviation.

A new video conveys the urgency and complexity of Embry-Riddle’s fleet relocation effort right before Hurricane Irma made landfall at Cudjoe Key on the morning of Sept. 10.

Journalists interested in covering this feat of aviation planning and partnership between universities can download the video via Dropbox:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/makib5frfyv4nyr/HURRICANE_FLEET_RELOCATION.mp4?dl=0

… or grab the embed code from YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsc-kiizlF4&feature=youtu.be