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Three Planes Cleared For Same LAX Runway Avoid Crash
The Associated Press ^
| February 22, 2006
| AP
Posted on 02/22/2006 12:32:34 PM PST by Westlander
LOS ANGELES -- Federal investigators are trying to figure out why an air traffic controller directed three planes onto the same runway at Los Angeles International Airport last week.
A Federal Aviation Administration spokesman said, "It was pretty close."
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: atc; lax; oops; plane; runway; traffic
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To: evets
Yeah, looks like a bad week to give up sniffing glue!
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posted on
02/22/2006 12:43:03 PM PST
by
Obadiah
To: mass55th
Don't know how the extra vowels got attached to my tagline in my last post, but I'm hoping this post will fix it.
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posted on
02/22/2006 12:43:05 PM PST
by
mass55th
(Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway~~John Wayne)
To: Westlander
I hate the traffic paaterns at LAX. Four, count 'em, (4) essentially parallel runways, planes being switched between them in the late stages of landing, taxiways that must cross runways with landing and departing aricraft. It is a clustf*ck waiting to happen.
To add to the confusion, there are two tower frequencies: one for the north two runways, another for the southern runways. So the plane coming in to land next to your plane is probably talking to a different controller than you!
LAX always gives me the willies. Was not too long ago a controller landed a plane right on top of another on the runway. Grisly.......
To: Westlander
The local controller's got some splainin' to do.
To: Westlander
Clearance was mistakenly given when the pilots were transferred to the call queue in Bangalore.
The person who answered there didn't have a firm grasp of English and kept asking the pilots for their e-mail addresses.
To: Aeronaut; Paleo Conservative
Yikes. I believe this has happened before at LAX, with a much worse result.
}:-)4
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posted on
02/22/2006 12:45:58 PM PST
by
Moose4
("I will shoulder my musket and brandish my sword/In defense of this land and the word of the Lord")
To: doorgunner69
I hate the traffic paaterns at LAX. Four, count 'em, (4) essentially parallel runways, planes being switched between them in the late stages of landing, taxiways that must cross runways with landing and departing aricraft. It is a clustf*ck waiting to happen. Mayor Dummy has plans for 5 or 6 parallel runways at O'Hare; that will be a sight to behold.
To: wideawake
Trifecta - against the usual odds!
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posted on
02/22/2006 12:46:52 PM PST
by
RicocheT
To: gridlock
I picked a helluva week to give up sniffing glue.
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posted on
02/22/2006 12:47:24 PM PST
by
Illuminatas
(Being conservative means never having to say; "Don't you dare question my patriotism")
To: Prince Charles
The local controller's got some splainin' to do.He certainly won't need a LAXative
30
posted on
02/22/2006 12:47:30 PM PST
by
RckyRaCoCo
("When you have to shoot, shoot, don't talk!")
To: Westlander
"American 281 heavy cleared for final on runway 3left" (controler thinks in head) "well two left now"
To: Westlander
re: "It was pretty close."
B.S.
From article: "The pilot of the smaller plane saw the incoming Southwest jet and stopped short of the runway. The jet roared past about 275 feet away and 50 feet above the smaller plane.
The FAA spokesman said the Southwest jet landed without incident and never got closer than about 5,600 feet to the Air Canada jet."
Some incorrect ATC procedures, confusion between local (air) and ground controller, but no big problem.
BFD.
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posted on
02/22/2006 12:47:58 PM PST
by
MindBender26
(Having my own CAR-15 in RVN meant never having to say I was sorry....)
To: doorgunner69
Atlanta Hartsfield(-Jackson) is the same way. Four parallel runways with the terminal in the center, I think they take off on the inner ones and land on the outer ones. And they're adding a fifth.
}:-)4
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posted on
02/22/2006 12:48:05 PM PST
by
Moose4
("I will shoulder my musket and brandish my sword/In defense of this land and the word of the Lord")
To: VRWCmember
...six FReepin' seconds...
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posted on
02/22/2006 12:49:15 PM PST
by
gridlock
(eliminate perverse incentives)
To: MindBender26
275 feet away and 50 feet above? Sounds like he was at the hold short point.
Maybe this is why Mom says "look both ways before crossing the runway."
}:-)4
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posted on
02/22/2006 12:49:19 PM PST
by
Moose4
("I will shoulder my musket and brandish my sword/In defense of this land and the word of the Lord")
To: Westlander
I'm sure many on the left will blame Ronald Reagan for firing the strikers. :)
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posted on
02/22/2006 12:49:35 PM PST
by
jazusamo
(:Gregory was riled while Hume smiled:)
To: doorgunner69
What's DTW's report card ?
37
posted on
02/22/2006 12:49:42 PM PST
by
Westlander
(Unleash the Neutron Bomb)
To: Obadiah
I picked a hell of a week to give up barbituates.
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posted on
02/22/2006 12:49:54 PM PST
by
Petronski
(I love Cyborg!)
To: RckyRaCoCo
To: Westlander
The Air Traffic Control operator was obviously from the United Arab Emirates!!!
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posted on
02/22/2006 12:50:38 PM PST
by
Recovering_Democrat
((I am SO glad to no longer be associated with the party of Dependence on Government!))
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