[Responsibility2nd]

"While we have had many meetings and e-mail discussions on this item since last fall -- we have not had any substantial progress in meeting this goal."

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Gosh. Think of all the meetings and e-mails American would have had if there had been a crash.

Gee, that would have been overwhelming.

[RockinRight]

George Carlin: Here’s one they just made up: “near miss”. When two planes almost collide, they call it a near miss. It’s a near HIT!! A collision is a near miss.

[HamiltonJay]

And the FAA which should have fined AA and ordered the lights on the minute they found out.. have still done nothing.... THe FAA’s mandate needs to drop its role as “encouraging air travel”... Air travel is a way of life now, it doesn’t need to be promoted by the government.

[mysterio]

Energy independence now.

[Yo-Yo]

Running the lights would burn fuel and when American Airlines bought the high-speed tugs last year the goal was saving fuel by moving planes without turning on the engines or the generator that power the lights.

The tug has lights. And I can't believe that it uses that much fuel to have the APU running upon gate pushback.

[usurper]

Running the lights would burn fuel and when American Airlines bought the high-speed tugs last year the goal was saving fuel.

This makes no sense, I believe that the tugs have electrical connection that can power the plane’s system.

This sounds to me like the pilots union trying to cover their butts.

[Niteranger68]

If the incident had happened at night controllers said the pilot may not have seen the other plane until it was too late.

The headline is a damn lie!!! But are tug drivers expected to understand "hold short"?

[TheBattman]

OK - so they don’t want to crank the engines to power the electric lights... how about a portable battery-operated light that just sticks on the plane about mid-way.... How hard or expensive would that be? I would imagine I could come up with something for less than a couple hundred bucks to do the trick....

[nw_arizona_granny]

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