Posted on 03/22/2023 8:26:54 AM PDT by BenLurkin
The Aircraft Rescue and Fire Fighting, or ARFF, vehicle crossed Runway 15R at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI) without authorization on Jan. 12, DC News Now said Tuesday.
The Southwest Boeing 737 had just been cleared for takeoff from the same runway and missed the ambulance by less than half the length of a football field, the outlet reported.
“The closest estimated horizontal separation occurred at a distance of 173 feet,” the Federal Aviation Administration said in new analysis of the harrowing incident.
The ARFF driver was told to “hold short” of the runway, but read back the instruction as “ARFF 439 crossing Runway 10 and 15 Right.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
“Here's a phrase that apparently the airlines simply made up: 'near miss'. They say that if two planes almost collide, it's a 'near miss'. Bullsh__, my friend. It's a 'near hit'! A collision is a 'near miss'.
[WHAM! CRUNCH!]
"Look, they nearly missed!"
"Yes, but not quite.”
Need more diversity, equity, and inclusion to insure airport safety.
Mayor Buttgigg is on the job.
At least medical personal were already on the scene.
As long as the pilot wasn’t a cisgen.
Title is misleading. The plane ALWAYS has the right of way when cleared....
“Near Miss” has always bugged me. It shows the stupidity of the MSM.
Rufus had the most excellent insight.
A skirt wearing LGBTQ pilot of Somalian descent?
Face pic and name of that pilot, please.
How many flight hours did they complete before being loosed onto the world?
The public deserves to know.
“...but read back the instruction as “ARFF 439 crossing Runway 10 and 15 Right....”
“I know why I was on the runway..
Because I got high,
Because I got high,
Because I got high!”
I think the FAA agrees with you
“The FAA has four levels of severity for runway incursions — A, B, C and D — based on the level of severity. The incident at BWI was ranked as a Category B.
Category B is an incident in which separation decreases and there is a significant potential for collision, which may result in a time critical corrective/evasive response to avoid a collision,” according to the FAA.”
I read the article as saying the ambulance driver was at fault for misinterpreting instructions from the tower.
The Dims’s transportation policies are making plane and train mishaps occur as frequently as their sexual policies promote STD’s.
Makes sense because white normal men never crash airliners.
The affirmative action/diversity groups, after years of being pumped out of left-winged schools, are now in charge of everything. Proceed at your own risk.
That was definitely a near-crunch.
Is Thurgood Marshall Airport going to share the awkward stigma of Martin Luther King Blvd.? Oh dear.
I think important jobs sadly are going to unqualified people in the name of equity or diversity.
I just got home, just drove past that area, and thought “oh, wow, something was happening...”
Then, it turns out it was January 12.
(rolling eyes emoticon)
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