....and changed his underwear...............
tenerife airport disaster , still the deadliest accident in aviation history when two 747’s collision killed most of the people on board.
It is “Dramatic”, only because it was caught on camera.
Runway incursions are, unfortunately, a part of flying, and pilots train for them. There are about 250+ reported incursions a year in the US alone, (who knows how many go unreported).
It is a focus point for FAA Safety Programs, and everyone that drives on a secured airport has to go through the program yearly.
This should be tagged to the article here about windowless cockpits in the future.
A near miss is called a collision.
I was a passenger in a Continental airlines 727 that aborted landing as we went over the west outer markers on the east-west runway. A military helicopter taking off crossed in front of the plane and the pilot aborted the landing. The pilot went FULL power, immediately hit the landing gear up switch while maintaining full flaps and pulled up radically plus went into a hard turn. I had no idea before this how much power the 727 had that is normally not used, the g-force was much greater than I had ever experienced and at the time, I was flying about 50k miles a year. After about 10 seconds the pilot got on the intercom and told us what had occurred. We landed normally without drama 10 minutes later.
Many kudos to the uber competent pilot and copilot that pulled the emergency actions reflexively. Bet they were USAF trained.
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