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757 lands on EWR taxiway by mistake
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Gary Drescher wrote:
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/A...rtner=homepage Must've been cleared for the visual to 11. I remember my instructor and chief flight instructor both hammering home the point about knowing the color of lights associated with the approach lighting system, runway, and taxiway. The head of the flight school is a DE, and during my instrument oral exam he quized me about pretty much every aspect of the lighting system. Haven't forgotten it to this day. -- Guy |
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757 lands on EWR taxiway by mistake
Many years ago, a C130 was landing at Patterson, LA.
Patterson has a concrete strip and a water filled canal/lane, very close together. The concrete runway has white edge lighting with green and red bars, the water has green edge lighting and white bars. KPTN Want to guess which runway the C130 landed on? "Guy Elden Jr" wrote in message ups.com... | Gary Drescher wrote: | http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/A...rtner=homepage | | Must've been cleared for the visual to 11. I remember my instructor and | chief flight instructor both hammering home the point about knowing the | color of lights associated with the approach lighting system, runway, | and taxiway. The head of the flight school is a DE, and during my | instrument oral exam he quized me about pretty much every aspect of the | lighting system. Haven't forgotten it to this day. | | -- | Guy | |
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757 lands on EWR taxiway by mistake
Gary Drescher writes:
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/A...rtner=homepage Well, Northwest has been known to land at the wrong airport in the wrong country, so it could have been worse. -- Transpose mxsmanic and gmail to reach me by e-mail. |
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757 lands on EWR taxiway by mistake
Guy Elden Jr writes:
Must've been cleared for the visual to 11. I remember my instructor and chief flight instructor both hammering home the point about knowing the color of lights associated with the approach lighting system, runway, and taxiway. The head of the flight school is a DE, and during my instrument oral exam he quized me about pretty much every aspect of the lighting system. Haven't forgotten it to this day. How hard is it to distinguish between them? Aren't taxiways always outlined in blue (and runways _never_ outlined in blue)? -- Transpose mxsmanic and gmail to reach me by e-mail. |
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757 lands on EWR taxiway by mistake
"Mxsmanic" wrote in message ... Guy Elden Jr writes: Must've been cleared for the visual to 11. I remember my instructor and chief flight instructor both hammering home the point about knowing the color of lights associated with the approach lighting system, runway, and taxiway. The head of the flight school is a DE, and during my instrument oral exam he quized me about pretty much every aspect of the lighting system. Haven't forgotten it to this day. How hard is it to distinguish between them? Aren't taxiways always outlined in blue (and runways _never_ outlined in blue)? You tell me. http://tinyurl.com/y378wt |
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757 lands on EWR taxiway by mistake
Here's some different/additional information from NJ Star Ledger:
"There were no injuries in the incident involving Continental Flight 1883, a Boeing 757-200 that arrived at 6:31 p.m. Saturday from Orlando, Fla., with 157 passengers and six crew members aboard." "Peters [FAA spokesman] said the plane should have landed on Runway 29, but landed on Taxiway Z, otherwise known as Taxiway Zulu, which is parallel to the runway." "Halleran [president of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association local at Newark Airport] characterized the incident as a 'pretty rare' occurrence. He noted runways and taxiways use different colors of lighting. 'The controllers did everything correctly,' said Halleran. 'They listened to the tape' of their communication with the aircraft afterward." "Runway 29 is 6,800 feet long and 150 feet wide, while the parallel Taxiway Zulu is the same length but only 75 feet wide." http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/jersey...640.xml&coll=1 |
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757 lands on EWR taxiway by mistake
In a previous article, "Gary Drescher" said:
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/A...rtner=homepage sarcasm But they were on a flight plan, and the tower was fully staffed, so how could anything have gone wrong? /sarcasm -- Paul Tomblin http://blog.xcski.com/ I think I'd like to see a Simpsons episode starting up with Bart Simpson writing 'I will not attempt to undermine the Usenet Cabal'. -- J. D. Falk |
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757 lands on EWR taxiway by mistake
In article ,
(Paul Tomblin) wrote: In a previous article, "Gary Drescher" said: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/A...1162357200&en= 858151cf4e7fca20&ei=5094&partner=homepage sarcasm But they were on a flight plan, and the tower was fully staffed, so how could anything have gone wrong? /sarcasm Somebody used a non-PMA indicator light in the coffee maker. |
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757 lands on EWR taxiway by mistake
How hard is it to distinguish between them? Aren't taxiways always
outlined in blue (and runways _never_ outlined in blue)? Gig 601XL Builder wrote: You tell me. http://tinyurl.com/y378wt That was a link to a daytime satellite view of EWR. The landing occurred at 6:31pm EDT, which should have been dark (sunset was around 5:55pm EDT). |
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