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To: Former Fetus

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.


4 posted on 07/08/2014 9:42:50 AM PDT by tcrlaf (Q)
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To: tcrlaf

Last week, we were close to touching down on the first leg of a flight back to CA between Jacksonville, FL and Atlanta. The pilot then pulled it up to go around, and announced that a plane hadn’t cleared the runway. Guess that happens somewhat frequently, thankfully without incident most of the time.

If I recall correctly, Atlanta was where a traffic controller recently gave an instruction to an airliner, then announced she was “just kidding”. Yikes.


13 posted on 07/08/2014 10:22:14 AM PDT by Mjaye
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To: tcrlaf

Our AA flight from Dallas to Bradley International in Hartford on 6/8 had to abort its landing as there was a last minute runway incursion. I had this happen once before at Bradley.

When I worked in downtown San Diego years ago, my office had a view of both landing planes and the airport runway. From time-to-time, I would hear the roar of jet engines as the pilot had to abort his landing due to a runway incursion. In one case, a jet just started its takeoff. As it was heading down the runway, the landing jet was heading off above it to gain altitude. That one was quite close.


16 posted on 07/08/2014 10:36:24 AM PDT by CdMGuy
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