Airport Controller Yells 'Hold' at Plane,
 

Landing in Boston, Possible Runway Collision Averted.An alert air traffic controller at Logan Airport in Boston may have averted a Thanksgiving Eve plane collision on a runway-- saving hundreds of lives on one of the busiest travel nights of the year.

“The pilot made the wrong turn,” Matt McCluskey, the president of the Boston Air Traffic Controllers Union, said. “Luckily, we were on top of our game.”

JetBlue Flight 1264 from Austin, with 91 passengers, had just landed and hooked right instead of left, which put it on a collision course with another JetBlue plane gaining speed for takeoff.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/12/07...est=latestnews


Note:Published December 07, 2010

Pilots turning right instead of left. Happens more often than you might think.

Last serious incident in Boston was this one - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_Lo...nway_incursion

You only have to look at Tenerife, what a monumental disaster that was.

Is it me, or is JetBlue always involved in this kind of thing? They strike me as a real fly-by-night operation, no pun intended.

Correct me if I'm wrong but IIRC this was the worst air disaster for loss of life :hmmm:

Not if you count 9/11 as an air disaster. :hmmm:

Acts of terrorism are not disasters.

Woah......who did that just sound like? I need a shower.

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which it isn't.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of..._toll#Aviation

however....9/11 does have its entries in the list.

HunterICX

You know I do seem to remember an Airplane or two or FOUR on 9/11

... maybe I was watching something else on TV that day?

Funny you didn't list #11 on that list:

Wait... was that a terrorist attack... ya know I think it was. :yep:

A terrorist attack on a list of aviation disasters?

EDIT: Ah I see they listed them separately and not included the death toll on the ground. That's BS. So if two planes collide its the same indecent, but if the same group of people crashes four planes on the same day they are separate incidents? BULL!

Yes, and 9/11 entries are there as well, check my editted post

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on the same lists of accidents and dissasters.

HunterICX

RGR. Check my edited post...

if you scroll down the list, the other casualties of 9/11 are listed as structural collapse.

HunterICX

Here is a story about an ATC doing their job and doing it well.

A pilot gets lost on the taxiways (happens all the time).

and off we launch into comparisons of air disastors.

If someone intentionally flys a plane into a building while it is a disastor it is not an accident.