Two Jets Pass Within 300 Feet on Runways (BWI)

The Washington Post ^ | Dec 8, 2007 | Del Quentin Wilber

[MarkL]

Landings (runways-to-taxi’s-to-terminal) are what concern me flying.

Another fun thing is flying into airports with parallel runways, like Lambert in St Louis. There are occasional cases of planes landing on the wrong runway!

Mark

[RLM]

Planes consume more fuel taking off than landing so it’s clear to me that, in the interest of fuel conservation, the landing jet should have been told to hold short before passing over the numbers and touching town.

[Cobra64]

[SW6906]

"Another fun thing is flying into airports with parallel runways, like Lambert in St Louis. There are occasional cases of planes landing on the wrong runway!"

Like this near mistake?

Or this one?

[SuziQ]

Lord, I’m glad I wasn’t on either plane; I’d have had to change my underwear! I always watch the runways when we’re taking off and landing. I have fears of another Tenerife event.

[MarkL]

Those really weren’t “mistakes,” just pilots dealing with very heavy cross-winds.

One of the classified secrets of the B52 bomber was the fact that the main landing gear was able to skew 20 degrees left and right, in effect allowing the plane to “be pointed” off to one side, while the plane was moving straight down the runway.

Mark

[unixfox]

BWI is not exactly the most crowded airport in the world, so one wonders what the excuse is for this. . .

Well, it is Baltimore/D.C. you figure it out.

[SuziQ]

Just damn!! Those pilots must have been sweating bullets all the way down!! You could tell by the banking they were doing that they were trying hard to get that beast under control. It looked for all the world, in that first video, like they were heading directly for the water. He must have put some power into his yaw to the left at that point, because he was burning rubber during his braking as he landed.

[nw_arizona_granny]

Ping.

[Voltage]

Wow, they came within 300 feet and “no one was hurt”! I’m shocked that the intersecting force fields didn’t collapse somebodies spleen.

Not as close as I came...I met a car on the highway and came within 5 feet of it! I failed to report it to the news media however.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Maryland “Freak State” PING!

[Redleg Duke]

"A miss is as good as a mile!"

Tough luck, trial attorneys!

[trooprally]

Nuclear warfare - You beat me to it by 24 hours. Is that close enough to count as “I almost beat you”?

[Mr] T