It's willful negligence not to confirm the runway you're landing on in a big jet equipped with GPS. Too much is at stake!
“Wanna Get Away?”
Two decades ago....most all airline pilots were former Navy or AF pilots, and paid at a sufficient level for their work. I’ve come to note over the past decade that we’ve gone to the cheapest way possible of getting airline pilots. A guy gets his license and thinks ‘big’ on the job....then six weeks later begins to realize that he’s overworked, and lacks the depth of experience that used to exist as the norm.
We all want cheap travel now, and this is the result of that desire.
What do you mean by catastrophe?
If they are good they can land a 737 in as short as 3300 feet using 40 degrees flap, spoilers, and thrust reversers.
Santos Dumont Airport (IATA: SDU; Rio, Brazil) has a runway that is only 4341 ft. long. It receives 737s on a regular basis.
This seems to happen occasionally, wasn’t there a big cargo plane that accidently landed at a commuter airport a couple months back?
You would think that after being “cleared to land on runway three-two” the PIC would have aborted the landing when he saw the “30” at the end of PLK.
I almost did the same thing many years ago approaching Ellenville (N89) instead of Wurtsboro (N82) but broke it off a half-mile out.
What about the trucking companies know their big rig(s) went off course, how can this happen?
It’s the mark of a good pilot to be able to land anywhere.
Now if he is really good he will be able to persuade the NTSB and his supervisors that he was just practicing his emergency landing skills on a shorter runway and then watch his career really take off.
Haven’t you ever landed with the wheels up?
“That damn horn distracted me.”
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I guess it's a good thing there wasn't another plane landing or taking off on that runway as this wayward plane came barging in.