Tue, Feb 06, 2007
The
NTSB is investigating an incident last week in which, in order
to avoid striking a snowplow, an airliner was forced to come to a
premature stop after landing in Denver.
At about 5:38 p.m. MST on Friday, February 2, a United Airlines
Boeing 737, operating as flight 1193 from Billings, Montana, landed
on runway 26 at Denver International Airport (DEN). One of the
pilots noticed a snowplow on the runway and the crew used maximum
braking power and full use of the thrust reversers to bring the
aircraft to a complete stop.
The plane missed the snowplow by about 200 feet. There were no
injuries to the 101 persons aboard or the operator of the
snowplow.
The plow was being escorted by an airport operations vehicle
that was in radio communications with the air traffic control
tower, but the vehicles had become separated, with the escort
vehicle already having cleared the runway. It is unclear if the
snowplow was in radio communications with either the escort vehicle
or the tower. Visibility at the time of the incident was about 10
miles.
NTSB Investigator Arnold Scott has been designated as the
Investigator-in-Charge of this incident. The air traffic control
tower audio tapes and radar data and the aircraft's flight data
recorder will be reviewed, and statements will be obtained from the
pilots, the drivers of the ground vehicles, and appropriate air
traffic control personnel.
This is the second runway incident the NTSB is investigating at
DEN in a month. On January 5, a Frontier Airlines plane broke off a
landing attempt when the crew noticed another aircraft on the
runway.
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