Land Easily The Harrison Ford Way

"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile) 08/04/2017 at 09:35 • Filed to: None

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!!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! (yeah, I know), looks like an Air Canada flight flirted with Tenerife 2: Tenerife Bigger last month, lining up on a taxiway, and came close to pancaking on top of four jumbos.

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bhtooefr > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 08/04/2017 at 09:38

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Also from the FP, if you don’t want to give The Sun clicks: http://jalopnik.com/photos-show-just-how-close-canada-jet-came-to-crashing-1797505352

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > bhtooefr 08/04/2017 at 09:39

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what’s an fp

where am i

is this toast

Ash78, voting early and often > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 08/04/2017 at 09:46

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The Sun: Also recommended for you

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Ash78, voting early and often > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 08/04/2017 at 09:47

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SFO sucks ass, I always fly to Oakland if given a choice. The difference in the drive to SF is negligible, there’s a lot less fog, and you don’t feel like you’re landing on an aircraft carrier.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Ash78, voting early and often 08/04/2017 at 09:50

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Incredibly silly journalism is still journalism of a sort. Or to borrow from the newspapers monologue in Yes, Prime Minister , “Sun readers don’t care who runs the country, as long as she’s got big tits”.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Ash78, voting early and often 08/04/2017 at 09:52

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I heard an anecdote from someone who had been visibly nervous before a flight, and a deadheading flight crew member they were talking with said they were either nervous because they knew too little about air travel or too much.

ttyymmnn > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 08/04/2017 at 10:11

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If you want a little less hysteria, here is the report from the NTSB.

https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/Pages/DCA17IA148.aspx

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > ttyymmnn 08/04/2017 at 10:34

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The inop runway and brightly lit taxiway add important context as to how this happened. With the minimal communication going on, I wouldn’t be surprised if PAL 115 turning their lights on wasn’t the deciding factor (when seconds counted) to get ACA759 to go around. At their descent rate, another 2-3 seconds of indecision would have been fatal - and they weren’t directed by ATC to go around until (without the realization) it would have been approximately 8 seconds too late.

A little hysteria is probably warranted. *Very* close shave. If he’d pancaked on PAL 115 (most likely?) with his ~150 passengers, nearly 300 on board PAL (A340-300), and caromed into UAL 863 for a few bonus casualties (787-9) and fuel all over the place, it would have come pretty close to a Tenerife count, even without involving the other two on the taxiway.

Out, but with a W - has found the answer > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 08/04/2017 at 10:39

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It’s the same with pretty much any transportation system.

someassemblyrequired > ttyymmnn 08/04/2017 at 10:57

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Kinda shocked that if you have to ask a question like the AC crew did, why not just go around and take a couple of minutes to get your bearings. PAL crew probably saved a lot of lives turning their lights on.