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07-12-2007, 11:28 PM
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FAA: 2 planes nearly collide in Fort Lauderdale
FAA: 2 planes nearly collide in Fort Lauderdale
One plane misses turn on taxiway and enters wrong runway
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19730441/
2 Planes Nearly Collide at Florida Airport
Thursday , July 12, 2007
Two planes came within 100 feet of colliding at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport after one missed its turn onto a taxiway and entered the runway where the other was about to land, federal authorities said.
Air traffic controllers noticed a plane entering a runway Wednesday as Delta Flight 1489 approached the same runway for a landing, Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Kathleen Bergen said.
The controllers alerted the Delta crew to pull up and circle the airport to avoid United Flight 1544, which had missed a turn onto another taxiway, Bergen said.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,289102,00.html
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07-13-2007, 02:51 PM
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They always blame the Tower controllers, but what was this Pilot thinking and did not make the correct turn!
Where was this bozo from? 
True, I have flown into many big air ports and some are scarry as hell!
But these jet jockys are suppose to know the airport they fly in and out of!
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07-14-2007, 03:28 PM
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Near misses happen a lot more often than we want to know.
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07-15-2007, 06:25 PM
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I was in an airplane landing in Denver a couple of years ago and we were literally "over the fence" (over airport boundry) probably less than 500 feet in the air and had to "go around." The pilot announced that there was still another aircraft on the runway.
Thankfully, someone caught it, be we should have never been that close behind another landing airplane.
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07-16-2007, 03:30 PM
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Ah, D A know only to well!
Struck by lightning.
Ended up in W D C not not St. Louis.
Fogged in and Limoed to JFK.
Same trip, changed flights and the one I was supposed to be on was skyjacked.
Omaha, battery over heated and could have blown up.
Shuttle from Louisville to St. Louis, was broken!
Only TWO PLANES.
Weapon I was carrying in checked baggaged ended up in Arizona.
Lugage ended up in KC, I was stuck in St. Louis.
Baggage handlers locked in cargo bay, plane was getting ready to fly to Miami.
Amazing to say the least!
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07-16-2007, 04:08 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by DeltAlum
I was in an airplane landing in Denver a couple of years ago and we were literally "over the fence" (over airport boundry) probably less than 500 feet in the air and had to "go around." The pilot announced that there was still another aircraft on the runway.
Thankfully, someone caught it, be we should have never been that close behind another landing airplane.
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Goodness........yeah we were flying into Los Angeles a couple years ago and I swear we were three feet from landing and the pilot pulled up and shot us back in the air because of traffic on the runway.
Might have been cool in an F-16........not cool in a 757.
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07-18-2007, 07:12 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by DeltAlum
I was in an airplane landing in Denver a couple of years ago and we were literally "over the fence" (over airport boundry) probably less than 500 feet in the air and had to "go around." The pilot announced that there was still another aircraft on the runway.
Thankfully, someone caught it, be we should have never been that close behind another landing airplane.
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Probably some dipshit who either: crossed the 'hold' line (that solid and dashed line painted on the taxiway no one is supposed to cross without permission from ATC) or a lazy-ass who's too slow to clear the runway after rollout.
Try doing a go-around in a 'Mad Dog' MD-80... Back when Continental flew MD-80s I was flying into 27R at IAH (Houston Intercontinental) when the captain hit the 'TOGA' (take off/go around) switch and we were forced into a go-around. After some serious, quick fighter-jock maneuvering from the captain with the concurrence of ATC we lined up into the crosswind runway complex (15L)and landed without a problem without having to get back into the landing queue for 27R. Sure enough, the previous aircraft didn't clear the runway.
BTW... I was self-loading cargo, not flight crew.
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