Check out the chyron.
Posted on 02/08/2024 10:58:50 AM PST by george76
ATC or Plane crew. One or the other or possibly both. Too soon to tell. Obviously two planes can’t share the same runway. Many people have died at times when they do.
Well turns out United 777 was not a Boeing 777, it was a brand new A321 NEO, flt#777.
Airbus is having issues with it's PW engines on their A320neo "Airbus A320neo Pratt Engine Issues to Ground 650 Planes Next Year"(this was Sep 2023).
While true this is a PW not Airbus mfg. issue, one would think Airbus would get some "equal opportunity" MSM bashing.
...yet I found this out through some obscure UTube video.
Check out the chyron.
Check out the chyron.
It wasn’t the flight crews, it was the ground handlers.
These planes were not on the runway, they were near the gates. Ground control gives the planes clearance to push back, other than that, it is up to the plane crew and ground crew, to make sure the planes do not hit each other.
That is what I was thinking...ground crew.
Not ground crew but Ground controllers. They direct traffic and grant taxiing clearances, then hand off to Tower. The headline said the collision occurred on the tarmac so that’s typically the purview of Ground.
Good discussion here:
https://www.cfinotebook.net/notebook/air-traffic-control/radio-communications
Heaven’s to Betsy. They aren’t gliders!
Probably Airbus but a lot of Freepers been doggin’ on 30-year old 757’s for the tires coming off and such.
Re: 71 - So you know the sex of the aircrew involved in the collision?
The fact that they were not on the runway is what probably explains why no one died as their speeds were much lower.
Still the same people at fault though.
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