[dfwgator]

“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.”

[BrexitBen]

Need more diversity, equity, and inclusion to insure airport safety.

Mayor Buttgigg is on the job.

[moovova]

At least medical personal were already on the scene.

[skeeter]

As long as the pilot wasn’t a cisgen.

[mikelets456]

Title is misleading. The plane ALWAYS has the right of way when cleared....

[Gary from Dayton]

A skirt wearing LGBTQ pilot of Somalian descent?

[lee martell]

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.

[Bonemaker]

“...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!”

[Tell It Right]

The Dims’s transportation policies are making plane and train mishaps occur as frequently as their sexual policies promote STD’s.

[LibertyWoman]

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.

[Blurb2350]

Is Thurgood Marshall Airport going to share the awkward stigma of Martin Luther King Blvd.? Oh dear.

[the OlLine Rebel]

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)

[eyeamok]

At least emergency personnel were on the scene

[ProtectOurFreedom]

The comments at the Post read like a bunch of FReeper comments.

The close call came to light after the FAA held an emergency summit last week in McLean, Virginia, to address a series of recent safety incidents and near-misses. There have been at least seven other close calls nationwide since December.

That's a lot. It would be instructive to see the historic number pre-DEI.

[DCBryan1]

[EVO X]

There was a similar incident late last year in Peru. The plane hit the emergency truck during takeoff. Nobody died on the plane, but 2 people in the truck died..

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-63698202

[proxy_user]

On a crackly radio, it is easy to mishear an instruction like “hold short”. Something more explicit like “STOP!” would probably have been more effective.

[noiseman]

Terribly written story; there was no “ambulance.” An ARFF truck is not an ambulance, it’s a specialized fire fighting vehicle (Aircraft Rescue and Fire Fighting). And as one other person correctly pointed out, aircraft ALWAYS have the right of way. Even if emergency vehicles, including the fire department and police, are responding to a plane crash on the other side of the airfield, they do not have the right of way over operating aircraft. In such an event, Airport Operations would be coordinating the emergency response and closing runways and/or taxiways as needed. But so long as a runway or taxiway is open, aircraft operating on it have the right of way over all other vehicular traffic.

I was an airport operations officer early in my career, so I have first hand experience with how this all works.

[martin_fierro]

QUICK SOMEONE CALL

[asinclair]

Saw a documentary about ground problems at airports. Runway incursions can include other planes, too.

One of the points made was to add signal lights to indicate when a runway is in use, so drivers and pilots wanting to cross a runway would know that it's not a good idea.

Part of the reason for the lights is to mitigate against an air traffic controller who loses situational awareness of the field. Accidents have been blamed on tower personnel being unable to see all of the runways and taxi ways out the window, in one case because an area light was pointed directly at the tower and blinding anyone looking at it.

For what it's worth.