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Hair-rising moment American Airlines is in near miss during take-off as pilot is forced to slam on the brakes at 110mph when private King aircraft lands in its path at Reagan National Airport
UK Daily Mail ^ | 05/30/2024 | PAUL FARRELL

Posted on 05/30/2024 1:14:09 PM PDT by DFG

An American Airlines plane came close to smashing into a private aircraft on the runway of Reagan National Airport on Wednesday morning, according to reports.

Audio shows an air traffic controller canceling the take off clearance for the AA flight 2134 as the private King Air plane was set to land on an intersecting runway at 10:21am local time.

As the cancelation goes through, the pilot in the private aircraft, a Hawker Beechcraft, reveals he's already on the ground in Arlington, Virginia. Regan National Airport is also known as DCA.

The King plane was cleared to land at Runway 33.

The controller says: 'American 2134 cancel takeoff clearance... zero alpha alpha go around, go around.'

The American Airlines pilot responds: 'Rejecting the takeoff 2134.' The King pilot chimes in at that point to say: 'Zero alpha alpha, cannot go around, we are already on the ground.'

Then, the controller says: 'American 2134, do you want to go back to the gate?' The American pilot confirms that they have to talk to maintenance.

'I think we were above 80 knots so we're going to have to get an inspection.'

Aviation expert Tom Kinton said that the pilot in the American flight was 'almost at the point of no return,' according to WCVB.

He added that the two planes were 1,300 feet apart at their closest point. 'That closes real quick if that American was continuing down the runway at that speed,' Kinton added.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: affirmativeaction; airbus320; americanairlines; dei; die; diversity; kingair; multiculturalism; reagan
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To: DCBryan1

Wow.


21 posted on 05/30/2024 1:33:35 PM PDT by VTenigma (Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
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To: DCBryan1

AGL means ‘altitude above GROUND level’ not sea level. Sea level is always sea level... Zero altitude.

But then I think you probably know that, and I see the joke of the meme.


22 posted on 05/30/2024 1:35:17 PM PDT by Bullish (...And just like that, I was dropped from the ping-list)
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To: TexasKamaAina

I read it the same way


23 posted on 05/30/2024 1:36:44 PM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: 6ppc

Beech Aviation was briefly owned by Hawker ...

OTOH, the airplane isn’t called a “King” it’s called a “King Air”. There’s also a Beechcraft “Queen Air”, FWIW.


24 posted on 05/30/2024 1:37:38 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: DFG

Harrison Ford flying again?


25 posted on 05/30/2024 1:41:08 PM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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To: V_TWIN
Don’t tell me they let Harrison Ford behind the stick again!

Darn, I shoulda read the comments before posting.

Buy why start now...

26 posted on 05/30/2024 1:42:07 PM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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To: 6ppc

Beech King Air


27 posted on 05/30/2024 2:02:18 PM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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To: Bullish

You cant re-train incompetent


28 posted on 05/30/2024 2:03:57 PM PDT by Chickensoup
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To: TexasKamaAina
If I’m reading this right (it’s not 100% clear to me) both pilots were following air traffic control instructions.

Reads to me that the King Air was already on the ground but the controller didn't know it and panicked.

29 posted on 05/30/2024 2:17:53 PM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
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To: Chickensoup

Howard Dean becomes Air Traffic Controler


30 posted on 05/30/2024 2:19:46 PM PDT by Colt1851Navy (What was wrong with Nixon?)
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To: DFG

Audio shows an air traffic controller canceling the take off clearance for the AA flight 2134 as the private King Air plane was set to land on an intersecting runway at 10:21am local time.

Audio shows nothing, it may record/tell, but it SHOWS nothing.


31 posted on 05/30/2024 2:22:34 PM PDT by ro_dreaming (Who knew "Idiocracy", "1984", "Enemy of the State", and "Person of Interest" would be non-fiction?)
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To: NorthMountain

Yeah. I figured. Guy who wrote the story knows nothing about aircraft.


32 posted on 05/30/2024 2:31:51 PM PDT by 6ppc (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act -George Orwell)
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To: DFG

Talk to maintenance is code for punching the living daylights out of the control idiot.


33 posted on 05/30/2024 2:49:37 PM PDT by bgill (.)
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To: DFG
We're weeks away from a spectacular crash and no one in the government or the Propaganda Media is going to address the lowered standards and Didn't Earn It (DEI) hiring.

It has been increasingly difficult to find people capable of serving as controllers, and also difficult to make it worth their while to live near a place like Washington DC, but the power brokers don't care as they fly in private jets through smaller, sometimes private, airports.

It's all okay though, the magicians making so-called Artificial Intelligence is going to solve all our critical thinking skills deficiencies.

34 posted on 05/30/2024 3:40:16 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: DFG

I flew into London-Gatwick once and as we neared the ground the pilot gunned it and went around. He explained later that there was another plane on the runway ahead.

He also said that there would be no additional charge for the additional flying. - British humor!


35 posted on 05/30/2024 3:40:23 PM PDT by libertylover (Our biggest problem, by far, is that almost all of big media is AGENDA-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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To: DFG

DEI in the control tower?


36 posted on 05/30/2024 4:22:54 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Trump will be sworn in under a shower of confetti made from the tattered remains of the Rat Party.)
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To: DCBryan1

DUDE !


37 posted on 05/30/2024 4:41:45 PM PDT by A strike (no tyranny that cannot be justified by 'climate change')
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To: DFG

tick tick tick....


38 posted on 05/30/2024 4:43:02 PM PDT by RckyRaCoCo (Time to throw them out of the Temple...again)
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To: 6ppc; Red Badger

It’s what Paul Ferrell and Red Badger know about aircraft.


39 posted on 05/30/2024 4:44:09 PM PDT by A strike (no tyranny that cannot be justified by 'climate change')
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To: ducttape45

Carlin - “Near Miss”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Eezjr_4_IY


40 posted on 05/30/2024 4:44:16 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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