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Three Planes Cleared For Same LAX Runway Avoid Crash
The Associated Press ^ | February 22, 2006 | AP

Posted on 02/22/2006 12:32:34 PM PST by Westlander

LOS ANGELES -- Federal investigators are trying to figure out why an air traffic controller directed three planes onto the same runway at Los Angeles International Airport last week.

A Federal Aviation Administration spokesman said, "It was pretty close."

(Excerpt) Read more at clickondetroit.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: atc; lax; oops; plane; runway; traffic
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To: dfwgator
Sounds straight out of Die Hard 2.

Or Airplane 1.

41 posted on 02/22/2006 12:51:24 PM PST by VRWCmember (You are STILL safer hunting with Dick Cheney than riding in a car with Ted Kennedy!)
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To: Westlander
why an air traffic controller directed three planes onto the same runway

So is LAX run by Dubai or UAE?

42 posted on 02/22/2006 12:51:55 PM PST by Alouette (Psalms of the Day: 113-118)
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To: doorgunner69
Ever fly into the old Hong Kong, Kai Tak?

You flew first ILS led DIRECTLY from outer marker into cliff side, but you changed frequencies at middle marker, made a 70 degree right and flew second ILS to touchdown.

Loads of fun.
43 posted on 02/22/2006 12:52:10 PM PST by MindBender26 (Having my own CAR-15 in RVN meant never having to say I was sorry....)
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To: Westlander
Whoo!

44 posted on 02/22/2006 12:54:36 PM PST by evets (God bless president Bush!)
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To: Westlander

*What's DTW's report card?*

?????


45 posted on 02/22/2006 12:54:42 PM PST by doorgunner69
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To: Moose4
And they're adding a fifth.

The real problem is when they drink the fifth.

46 posted on 02/22/2006 12:55:46 PM PST by Dan(9698)
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To: Westlander

February 1, 1991. Thirty-four passengers died at the Los Angeles International Airport when an incoming US Air Boeing 737 collided with a smaller SkyWest Metroliner commuter plane. The US Air jet landed on the smaller craft, flattening it and dragging it in flames into the side of an abandoned fire station. The crash claimed all 12 people on the smaller plane and 22 of the 89 aboard the larger US Air jet.

A colleague of mine was on the smaller plane.

47 posted on 02/22/2006 12:56:01 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Westlander
In other related news, Bush administration officials announced today that the US Government will sell the "management rights" of the FAA to a consortium of arab sheiks....
48 posted on 02/22/2006 1:00:16 PM PST by SENTINEL (USMC GWI (MY GOD IS GOD, ROCKCHUCKER !!))
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To: doorgunner69

I think she was cross-trained afterward into TRACON.


49 posted on 02/22/2006 1:01:56 PM PST by Old Professer (Fix the problem, not the blame!)
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To: kenth

Sounds like an EX-LAX controller, methinks...


50 posted on 02/22/2006 1:04:12 PM PST by Frank_Discussion (May the wings of Liberty never lose a feather!)
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To: Westlander

Up until the early 90's, air traffic controllers were hired through a competitive screening process. Not so anymore. The primary goal of the FAA's hiring today is to boost the percentage in the work force of what the government refers to as "protected classes" (i.e. anything but white males).

It has also become virtually impossible to wash trainees out of the program. They file grievance after grievance and are continually recycled through training.

Even those that are washed out are never fired. They are transferred to lower level facilities where the cycle begins anew. I could cite numerous examples of people who are in "training" for 7 or 8 years without ever checking out in any facility.

The amount of money wasted on useless nonproductive personnel in the FAA is staggering.


51 posted on 02/22/2006 1:04:28 PM PST by Zauber
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To: evets

LOL!!


52 posted on 02/22/2006 1:06:11 PM PST by Irish_Thatcherite (~~~A vote for Bertie Ahern is a vote for Gerry Adams!~~~)
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To: Westlander
The old punchline goes, (with southern drawl added),

"Y'all be careful now! Y'hear?"

53 posted on 02/22/2006 1:07:44 PM PST by Young Werther
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To: Westlander
One time I was landing on a runway with a Cessna 150. The ATC informed me to expedite my landing roll, "You have a DC-9 landing behind you!"

Jeez!

54 posted on 02/22/2006 1:10:38 PM PST by Sen Jack S. Fogbound
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To: Yo-Yo
Bah, the turboprop woulda made it if he just gunned it. you gotta take any opening in the traffic you can get...

THAT'S why I have V6 Camry.. no puny 4-cylinder for me.. gotta have it sometimes when you're getting on the freeway and the "mad mom in a minivan" refuses to move...

55 posted on 02/22/2006 1:25:40 PM PST by fuquadukie (If you can't hang with the big dogs, then don't jump off the porch.)
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To: Alouette

Would probably be better run if it was.


56 posted on 02/22/2006 1:28:59 PM PST by westmichman (Please pray with me for global warming)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Sorry you had to lose a colleague that way. Was that another case of controller screw-up?


57 posted on 02/22/2006 1:36:15 PM PST by GovernmentShrinker
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To: GovernmentShrinker

That case was PURE controller screw up.


58 posted on 02/22/2006 1:40:34 PM PST by SJSAMPLE
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To: Westlander

Not a surprise. Not at all. A flight I was on to LAX came down and touched the runway, then full throttle back up. Another plane came up at the same time from a crossing runway. You could see the faces of the passengers in the other plane, it was that close.


60 posted on 02/22/2006 1:46:39 PM PST by RightWhale (pas de lieu, Rhone que nous)
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