[Westlander]

Woops.

[DainBramage]

"American 281 heavy cleared for final on runway 3left"

(controler thinks in head) "well two left now"

[MindBender26]

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.

[jazusamo]

I'm sure many on the left will blame Ronald Reagan for firing the strikers. :)

[Recovering_Democrat]

The Air Traffic Control operator was obviously from the United Arab Emirates!!!

[Alouette]

why an air traffic controller directed three planes onto the same runway

So is LAX run by Dubai or UAE?

[evets]

Whoo!

[ProtectOurFreedom]

February 1, 1991. Thirty-four passengers died at the Los Angeles International Airport when an incoming US Air Boeing 737 collided with a smaller SkyWest Metroliner commuter plane. The US Air jet landed on the smaller craft, flattening it and dragging it in flames into the side of an abandoned fire station. The crash claimed all 12 people on the smaller plane and 22 of the 89 aboard the larger US Air jet.

A colleague of mine was on the smaller plane.

[SENTINEL]

In other related news, Bush administration officials announced today that the US Government will sell the "management rights" of the FAA to a consortium of arab sheiks....

[Zauber]

Up until the early 90's, air traffic controllers were hired through a competitive screening process. Not so anymore. The primary goal of the FAA's hiring today is to boost the percentage in the work force of what the government refers to as "protected classes" (i.e. anything but white males).

It has also become virtually impossible to wash trainees out of the program. They file grievance after grievance and are continually recycled through training.

Even those that are washed out are never fired. They are transferred to lower level facilities where the cycle begins anew. I could cite numerous examples of people who are in "training" for 7 or 8 years without ever checking out in any facility.

The amount of money wasted on useless nonproductive personnel in the FAA is staggering.

[Young Werther]

The old punchline goes, (with southern drawl added),

"Y'all be careful now! Y'hear?"

[Sen Jack S. Fogbound]

One time I was landing on a runway with a Cessna 150. The ATC informed me to expedite my landing roll, "You have a DC-9 landing behind you!"

Jeez!

[RightWhale]

Not a surprise. Not at all. A flight I was on to LAX came down and touched the runway, then full throttle back up. Another plane came up at the same time from a crossing runway. You could see the faces of the passengers in the other plane, it was that close.

[newzjunkey]

"It was pretty close."

Nice.

[mirkwood]