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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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Woops.
To: Westlander
Perhaps 2, by mistake - but 3?
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posted on
02/22/2006 12:35:54 PM PST
by
wideawake
To: Westlander
Almost a merger of Air Canada and Southwest.
To: Westlander
Is his first name Mohamed?
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posted on
02/22/2006 12:36:31 PM PST
by
2banana
(My common ground with terrorists - They want to die for Islam, and we want to kill them.)
To: Westlander
Obviously caused by the Bush budget cuts to the FAA...
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posted on
02/22/2006 12:36:39 PM PST
by
Sometimes A River
(allow Common Sense and Faith to trump Logic and Reason)
To: Westlander
Controller Achmed was unavailable for comment.
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posted on
02/22/2006 12:36:51 PM PST
by
Lx
(Do you like it, do you like it. Scott? I call it Mr. and Mrs. Tennerman chili.)
To: Westlander
Last Friday, the controller directed a departing turboprop to taxi on the same runway where he'd just cleared a Southwest Airlines jet to land. He also told an Air Canada jet it could cross the same runway on its way to the terminals. Bah, the turboprop woulda made it if he just gunned it. you gotta take any opening in the traffic you can get...
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posted on
02/22/2006 12:37:14 PM PST
by
Yo-Yo
To: Westlander
Anticipation of Dubai controlling the ports?
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posted on
02/22/2006 12:37:45 PM PST
by
OldFriend
(MSM ~ controversy, crap, & confusion.....compliments of Alan Simpson)
To: Westlander
A lax traffic controller... you can't make this stuff up.
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posted on
02/22/2006 12:37:56 PM PST
by
kenth
To: Westlander
At least one pilot needs a change of shorts.
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posted on
02/22/2006 12:38:40 PM PST
by
allen08gop
("Woman is the most powerful magnet in the universe... and all men are cheap metal!")
To: 2banana
"Is his first name Mohamed?"
LOL! You beat me to it.
11
posted on
02/22/2006 12:39:05 PM PST
by
mass55th
(Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway~~John Wayneuee)
To: Westlander
"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."
Hello!
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posted on
02/22/2006 12:39:54 PM PST
by
jdm
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posted on
02/22/2006 12:39:59 PM PST
by
evets
(God bless president Bush!)
To: Westlander
Reminds of the old Bob Newhart routine :
Cessna light 235 you are cleared for landing on Runway 29
UNited 747 heavy you are cleared for landing on Runway 29
Cessna light 235 don't look behind you when you land.
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posted on
02/22/2006 12:40:49 PM PST
by
commish
(Freedom Tastes Sweetest to Those Who Have Fought to Preserve It)
To: Westlander
Was the air traffic controller repeatedly shouting "Allah Akhbar" during the incident?
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posted on
02/22/2006 12:41:14 PM PST
by
jdm
To: Westlander
Looks like I picked the wrong week to give up drinking.
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posted on
02/22/2006 12:41:50 PM PST
by
VRWCmember
(You are STILL safer hunting with Dick Cheney than riding in a car with Ted Kennedy!)
To: evets
"I picked a helluva week to give up smoking..."
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posted on
02/22/2006 12:41:56 PM PST
by
gridlock
(eliminate perverse incentives)
To: Westlander
Sounds straight out of Die Hard 2.
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posted on
02/22/2006 12:42:12 PM PST
by
dfwgator
To: Westlander
This wouldn't happen if UAE ran the operations at our airports.
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posted on
02/22/2006 12:42:22 PM PST
by
kevao
To: Westlander
It's BUSH'S fault. It must be getting close to strike time. The media is going to report every neat miss from now on.
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posted on
02/22/2006 12:42:22 PM PST
by
AppyPappy
(If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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