Posted on 02/25/2025 9:56:05 AM PST by Red Badger
I had snuck my scanner on the flight and was listening to the exchanges. None of the other passengers had any idea why we took off again.
Pilot did not tell them either.
From what I see, the Southwest flight was flaring and up again before the biz jet hit the active.. Anyway, someone hit the TOGA button. Great heads-up flying on behalf of Southwest pilots regardless of DEI status.
Ted Stryker is awesome
The Flexjet was told to hold short of 31C (the active). The acknowledgment from the Flexjet to the tower was incorrect Ground control corrected the Flexjet, and told the jet to hold short of 31C. The Flexjet never acknowledged and did not stop.
I’m guessing Harrison Ford was at MDW today.
I was flying into London-Gatwick once and had to go around like that.
The British pilot came on and said the reason for the go-around was a plane on the runway. He also said, “There will not be a charge for the extra bit of flying”.
Unbelievable!
Don't know about that though, sounds like CYA until proven otherwise.
There is a thread about this incident on the PPruNe forum ... with details about what the biz jet was told to do, what they agreed to do, and what they did instead. The discussion has the thread title
Runway encroachment
(PPRuNe) = Professional Pilots Rumor Network
I see there was also a near-crash into water at SFO by same airline that blew a landing there a few years ago. (Asiana) ... this time they pulled up and went around. (last time they clipped a seawall short of landing zone and flipped over, I think only one passenger died, several were injured).
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/2019406/moment-plane-nearly-crashes-jet-runway
Per the above, FWIW, the biz jet pilot did not have authorization.
Agreed. Ground Control told the Flexjet TWICE to hold short of 31C. Flexjet responded incorrectly, were told once again to hold short by Ground, and they still kept going.
ADSB and ATC radio traffic:
https://x.com/flightradar24/status/1894482549688205332
Pretty clear that Flexjet was HUA, Southwest had great situational awareness and avoided a disaster.
The FlexJet did read back the hold short instruction, on their 2nd try. Their 1st reply was wrong and the controller made him read it back properly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6BLyJ2QiFY
It was on the news this morning, videos from different angles. Should be on Fox News website.
If he did read it back the second time correctly (and I haven’t seen that anywhere), then the pilot had no idea where he was on the field.
Just heard the second read back, the pilot did not know where he was on the field then. There is no other explanation for not holding short of 31C.
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