To: NittanyLion
I think the biggest problem here is the airport design. That looked like an accident waiting to happen, and I would just bet this type of incident has almost happened before in the past. No way should you have 2 departure points so close to each other, with one of the runways not being able to accommodate jet aircraft. Hindsight is 20/20, but I'm thinking they probably should've closed this runway years ago. You don't NEED 2 runways at an airport the size of LEX. It's nice to have, but not a necessity. So maybe the "airport authority" should bear some responsibility for this accident. Just a thought.
895 posted on
08/28/2006 3:06:50 PM PDT by
Painful
(Air Traffic Controller specialist)
To: Painful
To borrow a phrase, runways don't crash airplanes, pilots sometimes do. If this configuration is an accident waiting to happen, what do you call the parallel IFR approaches at SFO?
897 posted on
08/28/2006 3:12:08 PM PDT by
usafsk
((Know what you're talking about before you dance the QWERTY waltz))
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