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 ...
Wow.
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.
I read it the same way
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.
Harrison Ford flying again?
Darn, I shoulda read the comments before posting.
Buy why start now...
Beech King Air
You cant re-train incompetent
Reads to me that the King Air was already on the ground but the controller didn't know it and panicked.
Howard Dean becomes Air Traffic Controler
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.
Yeah. I figured. Guy who wrote the story knows nothing about aircraft.
Talk to maintenance is code for punching the living daylights out of the control idiot.
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.
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!
DEI in the control tower?
DUDE !
tick tick tick....
It’s what Paul Ferrell and Red Badger know about aircraft.
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