FAA: 2 planes nearly collide in Fort Lauderdale

[macallan25]

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.

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.

[DeltAlum]

Originally Posted by macallan25

Might have been cool in an F-16........not cool in a 757.

Yeah. I was also in a 757. That's a lot of airplane to do a "go around" in.

The pilot really poured the coals to that sucker.

I always hope that at an airport like DIA, with six active runways, that the controllers know where everyone in every pattern is when this kind of thing happens.

There's a lot of hardware in a reasonably small airspace.

[xo_kathy]

Originally Posted by macallan25

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.

I had that once, too. Landing in Phoenix, but it might have been an Aribus...It was a really bumpy descent anyway - the kind where everyone is nervous, not just the scared fliers. We were so close to the runway you had then sense of relief - whew, we're landing - when we shot almost straight up, it threw us all back in our seats.

We all just stared at each other, then the pilot came on - "Sorry, there was another plane on our landing runway. We'll try again when the traffic clears."

If that wasn't scary enough, we had to deal with another bumpy descent.

[jon1856]

Originally Posted by xo_kathy

I had that once, too. Landing in Phoenix, but it might have been an Aribus...It was a really bumpy descent anyway - the kind where everyone is nervous, not just the scared fliers. We were so close to the runway you had then sense of relief - whew, we're landing - when we shot almost straight up, it threw us all back in our seats.

We all just stared at each other, then the pilot came on - "Sorry, there was another plane on our landing runway. We'll try again when the traffic clears."

If that wasn't scary enough, we had to deal with another bumpy descent.

A few months ago my girl-friend and I flew into Lagaudia Airport.
As we were landing, I told my friend that I had never seen this approach or runway before.

We landed fine but almost immediately it felt as if the pilot had thrown out two sea anchors. And hit the brakes hard as well.

Never found out what happened. Could have been one of the shorter runways or.....

I should point out that the cockpit door was still closed while we deplaned.

[ZTAngel]

Originally Posted by jon1856

A few months ago my girl-friend and I flew into Lagaudia Airport.
As we were landing, I told my friend that I had never seen this approach or runway before.

We landed fine but almost immediately it felt as if the pilot had thrown out two sea anchors. And hit the brakes hard as well.

Never found out what happened. Could have been one of the shorter runways or.....

I should point out that the cockpit door was still closed while we deplaned.

LaGuardia is a hard airport to fly into since it's on the water. Admittedly, I'm a very nervous flier but I get especially nervous when I fly into LaGuardia. It's always a white-knuckle landing for me.

[DeltAlum]

LaGuardia is a tough airport in many ways -- but it's closest to midtown.

I've been stranded there many times and had a really bizarre situation there -- but it's too long to write.

[AGDee]

I've always had an issue with the term "near miss". Near death means you almost died. Shouldn't near miss mean that you almost missed? If you almost missed, then didn't you hit?

Just one of those weird English language things that bugs me...