Close call at midway airport
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You're paying for access to the Politics board, and you STILL can't stop yourself from going political here. Seek help.
Helluva job by flight crew! Probably just saved 300 or more lives.
I want to hear the tapes…….the business jet had just switche from ground control to tower control……sometimes the two are not coordinated……nevertheless, Southwest did a great job.
My guess is that incidents like the ones that we've seen the past month all of a sudden just didn't start happening. With that in mind, it's amazing that until the DC tragedy in January, there had not been a major airplane crash since the Buffalo one in 2009.
These things do, in fact, happen everyday. Now, everyone has a camera, so they’re being reported. This one at Midway, however, was closer than most days. US procedures need to change.
This one is egregious. It was close and could have cost 150 or more lives. We'll see if the pilot took corrective action or the tower saw it at the last moment but this one is BAD. So was Washington but that had unique circumstances with the military blackhawk practicing their night goggles. The others have been private so that is a different story. The ones that have to stop due to an aircraft problem happen most every day.
Agreed. Did he get bad instructions from the tower or did he get good instructions and not follow them?
It doesn't matter at which end the barb was pointed. The point is the barb itself. In other words, the fact that is or is not sarcasm is irrelevant.
My best friend is an ATC in Chicago (not at the midway tower).
Paraphrasing what he said to me: the pilot of the corporate jet read back instructions to hold short of the runway the SW flight was landing on and crossed anyway. That pilot also had clear visual conditions and obviously did not look before crossing the runway (which they are trained to do even with clearance to cross) because he would have been able to see the plane on approach. Both the tower and SW flight crew deserve credit for avoiding the disaster.
Someone started a “pizza and beer” fund for the Southwest pilots on Gofundme………it’s already above $10,000.
From what I heard, instructions were given and repeated twice. Business pilot got them wrong so they were repeated a second time. He got them right the second time but then did not follow what they said. He was told to stop before the main runway but went across it in front of the landing jet. All on that pilot IMO. I'd guess he's not piloting a jet today.
I saw that. From my point of view, not that unusual. I've been on several flights that had to go around. So I wonder if this is due to heightened sensitivity right now. Other will know better than me but they try to maintain a minimum distance between planes. I was on a flight once and the pilot started doing S turns to lower the distance between our flight and the one landing before ours to maintain a proper distancing.
