Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy
Air Traffic Control Issued New Clearance; Flight Crew Executed Go Around / Missed Approach
Procedure; Weather
Scheduled to operate an owner flight to A08. Preflight planning revealed no NOTAMs at A08 that would impact our arrival. Upon arrival in the Marion Alabama area Atlanta Center asked if we had weather and NOTAMs for A08. We asked the controller to review any new NOTAMs they had; the only NOTAMs reported were tower light outages; these were the NOTAMs we had reviewed prior to departure. The weather was 600 overcast with about 5 miles visibility. We were cleared to an initial fix and cleared for the GPS 16 approach. The approach went normally until breaking out around 500 feet. All of the runway markings were gone; a large yellow x was covering the threshold of the runway; and several construction vehicles were just adjacent to the runway at the midfield point. Also to note; position reports were made throughout the approach on CTAF. We executed a go around and held at the missed approach point. We informed ATC of the situation and they were unaware of any airport closures. After about 10 minutes ATC reached the airport manager who told them the airport was closed and that he had forgotten to produce a NOTAM to that effect. I explained the situation to our owners and they requested we divert to [another airport]. The diversion and GPS approach [to diversion airport] was uneventful. Following this event we informed Operations and Dispatch so that any of our other flights heading to Marion would be aware of the closure.
Upon breaking out at the completion of an instrument approach; crew of PC-12 noticed that the runway was closed with a large yellow X on the runway threshold. The entire airport had been closed for construction; but no NOTAM was issued. Crew diverted to an alternate airport.