Airport Controller Yells 'Hold' at Plane,

[Gerald]

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

[Tchocky]

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

[Oberon]

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

[Takeda Shingen]

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.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Oberon

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

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

[TLAM Strike]

Originally Posted by jimbuna

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

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

[Takeda Shingen]

Acts of terrorism are not disasters.

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

[TLAM Strike]

Originally Posted by Takeda Shingen

Acts of terrorism are not disasters.

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

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Originally Posted by wiktionary

Disaster (Noun)
An unexpected natural or man-made catastrophe of substantial extent causing significant physical damage or destruction, loss of life or sometimes permanent change to the natural environment.

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by Takeda Shingen

Acts of terrorism are not disasters.

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

[HunterICX]

Originally Posted by TLAM Strike

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

which it isn't.

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

1. 583 – Tenerife airport disaster (Tenerife, 1977)
2. 520 – Japan Airlines Flight 123 (Japan, 1985)
3. 349 – 1996 Charkhi Dadri mid-air collision (India, 1996)
4. 346 – Turkish Airlines Flight 981 (Paris, 1974)
5. 329 – Air India Flight 182 (Atlantic Ocean, 1985)
6. 302 – 2003 Iran Ilyushin Il-76 crash (Iran, 2003)
7. 301 – Saudia Flight 163 (Riyadh, 1980)
8. ~300 – Air Africa Antonov An-32 (Kinshasa, 1996)
9. 290 – Iran Air Flight 655 (Persian Gulf, 1988)
10. 273 – American Airlines Flight 191 (Chicago, 1979)

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

154. 92 – American Airlines Flight 11, (New York City, September 11, 2001 attacks)
205. 65 – United Airlines Flight 175, (New York City, September 11, 2001 attacks)
206. 64 – American Airlines Flight 77, (Virginia, September 11, 2001 attacks)
237. 44 – United Airlines Flight 93, (Pennsylvania, September 11, 2001 attacks)

HunterICX

[TLAM Strike]

Originally Posted by HunterICX

which it isn't.

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:

11. 270 – Pan Am Flight 103 (Lockerbie, Scotland, 1988)

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

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!

[HunterICX]

Originally Posted by TLAM Strike

A terrorist attack on a list of aviation disasters?

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

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Originally Posted by TLAM strike

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!

on the same lists of accidents and dissasters.

Structural collapses

1. est. 20,000 dead or wounded – Fidenae amphitheatre collapse, 27AD.
2. est. 2,700 dead – World Trade Center (New York City, United States, September 11, 2001).
3. 502 – Sampoong Department Store collapse (Seoul, South Korea, June 29, 1995).
4. 222 – Sincelejo Corralejas studium collapsed, Sucre, Colombia, January 20, 1980.

HunterICX

[TLAM Strike]

Originally Posted by HunterICX

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

HunterICX

RGR. Check my edited post...

[HunterICX]

Originally Posted by TLAM Strike

RGR. Check my edited post...

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

HunterICX

[SteamWake]

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.