Jets come within 100 feet of colliding

Karlheinz wrote:

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More dangerous than Hahn's Harbor City.
Even the "bomb on board" threat at LAX was covered up.

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NOBAMA SHMOMA wrote:

WITH ALL THESE PROBLEMS W/ PILOTS LATELY. I.E. OVER SHOOTING THERE DESTINATION... AND NOW THIS. THE FAA SHOULD REVOKE THERE LICENSES!

Karlheinz wrote:

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Great idea, a vacation. I barely remember what that is. And that smart pilot "correctly read back an air traffic controller's instructions to turn the Embraer E-190 jetliner onto another taxiway and stop," as Gregor said.
"But instead of following the instructions, the pilot continued to cross the taxiway's hold bars, Gregor said." Hello, I think they need a vacation too, or perhaps retire.
"At the same time, Northwest Airlines Flight 623, a Boeing 757 jetliner, was rolling down the departures runway to take off for Honolulu. An air traffic controller noticed what was going on and instructed the Midwest Airlines pilot to stop just as an alarm sounded in the control tower, Gregor said."
"The controller saw what was happening and immediately took action to keep this incident from becoming more serious," Gregor said. Yes, and the Midwest Airlines jet "stopped just before it entered the departures runway, about 200 feet past the taxiway's hold bars," according to Mike Foote, president of the local air traffic controllers union.
"This was a pretty nasty near-miss and I would say from my perspective that the planes were 10 to 15 feet from each other," said Foote, who was inside the control tower during the runway incursion.
That's not a whole lot, 15 feet. I guess these folks were lucky.

JetBlast wrote:

If LAX had looked at years worth of studies and data on runway incursions, they would have eliminated all the taxiway crossings in the middle of the runways and made all, or almost all of the crossings close to either end of the inner runway. This would greatly reduce the chance of a serious incident/accident in the event that pilot crossed the runway by mistake.
O'Hare has eliminated almost all of their runway crossings by making planes taxi a bit farther but it has paid off.
The red hold bar lights might help some but pilot will still taxi directly across them if they're not paying attention...mMuch like red traffic lights have not stopped all car collisions at intersections.

Estband wrote:

<quoted text> Fine and Dandy, but what about when the wind direction changes and the aircraft take off eastbound and land over the ocean?