Fri, Nov 18, 2005
Jet Aborts Landing To Avoid Plane Holding On
Runway
On the heels of the
NTSB's strong recommendation to the FAA that the agency needs to do
more to stem runway incursions, comes word such an event occurred
last week -- as a landing airliner came within 100 feet of an
RJ holding on the active runway.
The incident occurred Nov. 9 at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood
International Airport, when a US Airways B737 began its approach to
land on instructions from ATC -- right after the same controller
had issued a position-and-hold instruction to a Comair CRJ-200 for
the same runway.
The US Airways crew noticed the RJ at the end of the runway, but
ATC reportedly again cleared them to land on the runway... at
first. Right before the US Airways jet was to touch down, the
controller realized the error and told the 737 to go around. The
airliner missed the Comair jet by about 100 feet.
As of Thursday, the FAA had not cited the controller who handled
the two aircraft. Based on the information made available, though,
it's hard to tell where the fault might lay.
In any case, the NTSB
sees the incident as proof pilots need faster warnings to potential
conflicts, in the air and on the ground. "We are not providing
clear warnings to the cockpit," said NTSB spokeswoman Deborah
Hersman.
"We don't want to be investigating an accident that has the
potential to be horrific and continue to talk about our
recommendations after we've lost hundreds of lives."
As was reported Thursday in
Aero-News, the NTSB reports 324 runway incursions so
far this year, compared to 326 for 2004.
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