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Where is Chewbacca when you need him

Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2017 6:17 pm
by Slick Goodlin
I can't believe I'm the one who has to start this thread.  What's got you guys all so busy today?
https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=193603


For those who don't believe in clicking links, Harrison Ford landed a Husky on a taxiway on Monday after overflying a 737 on said taxiway.  Whoops.

Re: Where is Chewbacca when you need him

Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2017 7:25 pm
by David MacRay
That looks embarrassing.

Re: Where is Chewbacca when you need him

Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2017 3:13 am
by vanNostrum
[url=http://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/har ... rt-n720826]http://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/har ... rt-n720826[/url]


[color=rgb(35, 35, 35)][font=helvetica neue][size=16px]Actor Harrison Ford was involved in a potentially serious incident Monday in California as he was piloting his private plane, a single-engine Husky, NBC News has learned.[/size][/font][/color]
[color=rgb(35, 35, 35)][font=helvetica neue][size=16px]Ford, an experienced pilot who collects vintage planes, had been instructed to land on runway 20-L at John Wayne Airport in Orange County, California, but mistakenly aimed for a taxiway, instead. His plane passed over the top of an American Airlines 737 carrying 110 passengers and a six-person crew.[/size][/font][/color][color=rgb(35, 35, 35)][font=helvetica neue]][/font][/color][color=rgb(67, 114, 184)][url=http://media4.s-nbcnews.com/j/newscms/2 ... 0-1000.jpg][img alt=Image: Harrison Ford width=292]http://media4.s-nbcnews.com/j/newscms/2 ... 20-320.jpg[/img][/url][/color][size=16px]The [/size][size=2]passenger plane, AA Flight 1456, managed to depart safely for Dallas just minutes after the incident.[/size]
[color=rgb(35, 35, 35)][font=helvetica neue][size=16px]Ford, 74, was heard on air traffic control recordings asking, "Was that airliner meant to be underneath me?"[/size][/font][/color]
[color=rgb(35, 35, 35)][font=helvetica neue][size=16px]Air traffic controllers then informed Ford that he had landed on a taxiway rather than the runway — a violation of Federal Aviation Administration [/size][/font][/color]

Re: Where is Chewbacca when you need him

Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2017 3:19 am
by Colonel
http://www.seattletimes.com/business/pi ... t-sea-tac/

[quote]At least eight times since December 1999, experienced pilots from five airlines have mistaken Taxiway Tango for Runway 16R.

When Roger Seher flew a 37-seat [b]Air Canada[/b] Jazz turboprop into Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in January 2004, he was aware of the “Taxiway Tango” problem.

He’d flown into Sea-Tac many times and knew pilots arriving from the north sometimes confused the western landing strip, Runway 16 Right, with the nearby taxiway, called T or Tango. He also knew Sea-Tac had placed a 25-foot-by-25-foot “X” at the end of the taxiway to prevent potentially catastrophic landings there.

So after touching down that morning, as he later reported, Seher and his co-pilot were startled to hear from the control tower: “You have landed on taxiway.”[/quote]

Re: Where is Chewbacca when you need him

Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2017 3:55 am
by cgzro
Its California, he landed on the alt-left runway.

Re: Where is Chewbacca when you need him

Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2017 4:39 am
by ScudRunner-d95
Chewy can't even take a day to hit the beach.

[img]http://www.bluedogposters.com.au/img/01/01-0953_l.jpg[/img]


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