Posted on 01/12/2008 4:43:14 PM PST by RDTF
ATLANTA — The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating a near-collision of two airplanes on the runway at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport on Friday.
Investigators believe an Atlantic Southeast Airlines flight bound for Greensboro, N.C., ignored orders from the control tower to stop its taxi across the runway, coming within seconds of running into a Mexico-bound Delta Air Lines Inc. jet, FAA spokeswoman Kathleen Bergen said.
The ASA pilot acknowledged the orders and repeated them back to controllers in the tower but did not stop, Bergen said.
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The ASA plane was probably a twin turboprop, a Canadair or an Embraer. Atlanta to Greensboro? It wasn’t a 747.
The Delta plane was probably a jumbo jet. The little commuter liners — like ASA — tend to have younger and less-experienced pilots.
Sounds like someone almost screwed the pooch.
I heard on the radio that Obama’s plane clipped another plane’s wing on the ground. No injuries.
Haven’t seen anything here on FR yet.
Looking at next Saturday’s Delta schedule on their website, ASA has four flights going from Atlanta to Greensboro—two CRJ-100s (50 seats), two CRJ-700s (70 seats). Delta’s two flights from ATL to MEX are both Boeing 757-200s.
As written, that story is odd because from what I remember of the way that Hartsfield-Jackson is laid out, a plane taxiing out for takeoff should never have to taxi in front of a plane that’s taking off. The only time planes cross active runways during normal operations are when landing aircraft have to taxi across a runway to get to the terminal. There are two sets of two parallel runways with the terminal in the middle, and the recently added fifth runway well away from the other four. The “inside” runways, the ones nearest to the terminal, are used for takeoffs, and the “outside” runways are used for landings. So a landing plane will have to cross a takeoff runway to get to the gate.
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http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/01/obamas-plane-st.html
Obama’s Plane Strikes Parked Plane on Runway
January 12, 2008 11:40 AM
ABC News’ Lisa Stark and Sunlen Miller report: The plane carrying Sen. Barack Obama struck another plane while taxiing at Midway Airport in Chicago early Saturday morning.
At 2:45 a.m. Central Time, the Gulfstream 2 plane that carried Obama, nine other passengers and two crew members struck a parked Cessna 208 general aviation plane, which can carry 10 to 12 passengers.
There was minor damage to the wings of both aircraft, although no one on either of the planes was injured.
Inside Obama’s plane, the hit was so small that no one realized they had clipped the other plane’s wing until someone on the plane, looking out the window, noticed the swipe.
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More info here, including the flights involved:
http://www.wsbtv.com/news/15031942/detail.html
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Aviation list ping.
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1. Near-miss on ground at O'hare - nearly got broadsided by a 747 - he crashed to miss us, $16,000,000 damage.
2. Near miss at 8,500' leaving Orlando, missed him by 10-20 feet, we ALL ducked, nothing but 182 in the windshield - no sky left, thought we were goners.
3. Cleared by ORD Apch to intercept ILS27R localizer, except it was occupied, he had MEANT 27L.
4. Cleared to cross active on way to gate, except there was 727 landing on it...she MEANT to say "after the 727 goes by, you can cross".
All viewed from a badly soiled jump seat.
I quit flying for 5 years after that trip.
yikes!
The only thing like that I ever had was an ultralight at 3600 enroute to 5500 VFR coming out of the lax vfr corridor!
I did have an engine out, though...that was fun, too. :)
Thanks for the link.
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