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Cleared to land?

Postby 3WE » Sun Mar 05, 2017 5:43 pm

Are we sure?
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Re: Cleared to land?

Postby flyboy2548m » Mon Mar 06, 2017 2:46 pm

No.
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Re: Cleared to land?

Postby J » Tue Aug 29, 2017 2:21 pm

SFO Landing Incident Prompts Focus on Pilot Monitoring, CRM

In a safety alert prompted by the July 7 incident at San Francisco International Airport (SFO) in which an Air Canada Airbus A320 nearly landed on a crowded taxiway, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration is reiterating the importance of vigilant pilot monitoring and overall crew resource management (CRM) to maintain safe levels of situational awareness on the flight deck.

Approaching SFO at just before midnight, the pilots of the A320 received clearance to land on Runway 28 Right, but came within about 60 feet of touching down on the adjacent parallel taxiway. Four aircraft occupied the taxiway at the time: two United Airlines Boeing 787s, a United 737 and a Philippine Airlines Airbus A340.

This incident is an extreme example of incorrect surface approaches and landings,” the FAA said in the August 18 alert aimed at flight operations professionals. “This event highlights the importance of employing best practices for successful approaches and landings to the correct airport and runway.”

On the night of the incident, Runway 28 Left remained closed for construction, and several indications of that fact included a lighted X and an Automatic Terminal Information Service (ATIS) message noting the runway’s lights were not illuminated.

Preliminary NTSB reporting suggests the Air Canada pilots, who had lined up on the taxiway for at least 3 nautical miles, lost situational awareness. According to the NTSB, both the taxiway and the active runway were illuminated on “default settings,” including green centerline and blue edge lights on the taxiway, as well as white centerline and touchdown zone lights and green threshold and edge lights on the runway’s approach end.

At about 0.7 nautical miles out, the Air Canada crew queried ATC about “seeing lights on the runway,” NTSB said, and requested a cleared-to-land confirmation. ATC re-confirmed the clearance. Moments later, the crew in the United 787 sitting first on the taxiway told ATC that the Air Canada aircraft was headed for the taxiway. The second aircraft, the Philippine A340, turned on its landing lights.
As the Air Canada aircraft passed over the taxiway end, at about 85 feet agl, the crew advanced the thrust levers and initiated a go-around.

“In post-incident interviews, both incident pilots stated that, during their first approach, they believed the lighted runway on their left was 28 Left and that they were lined up for 28 Right,” the NTSB said in a factual update on the probe. “They also stated that they did not recall seeing aircraft on taxiway C but that something did not look right to them.”

The FAA’s alert emphasized using monitoring and CRM as risk-mitigation tools. The agency also underscored the importance of pre-flight briefings to cover topics such as notices to airmen and expected airfield configurations, and monitoring ATIS messages while approaching the airport.

“If something does not look correct, the observing crewmember bears the responsibility for communicating what they see,” the FAA said. “The key behind successful CRM is being receptive, informative, proactive, and persistent. CRM also delineates job functions and the expectation of support.”

The captain, who has accumulated about 20,000 total flight hours, served as the pilot flying. The first officer has flown about 10,000 hours.

https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news ... toring-crm

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Re: Cleared to land?

Postby 3WE » Tue Aug 29, 2017 9:09 pm

There is much talk there on how we should solve this, with the normal call that FMS HAL-9000 MUST monitor the stupid pilots and that we need better type specific training and procedures.

The blue line of silence seems rather firm- this only happens one in a bazillion times (like the overly-long takeoffs).

Still...is there a trend?

I continue to state two things:

1. It sure seems like those runway lights are dim. (One real departure from reality on MSFS is how the bright runway lights show up miles upon miles away and even cut through clouds). But being more realistic, the black hole appearance of an airport is always amazing, and I don't see much contrast between taxiway and runway lights, yeah, the blue vs. white thing is apparent from 50 feet out the side window, but 3 miles out with an ever-so-shallow 3-degree view surrounded by street lights and store fronts and billboards and....

2. Somehow we must almost TOTALLY ABSOLUTELY 100% eliminate landings without some sort of electronic navigation confirmation. I know ILS's go out of service but Magenta lines seem to be a heck of a backup...and if you aren't going to have a backup what do we need in the way of an extra safety check to be sure we are on the right place.

One other sad thing. In the 1970's there used to be all sorts of side steps given out from the Flyover control tower. And until 2000, there was an LDA-DME side-step approach in use...maybe it's not analogous, but we seem so fixated on a long stabilized approach that we can't think about a side step if you happen to choose the wrong line of lights 5 miles out...If the guys could have noticed 3 miles out, the side step would have been nothing (don't tell Evan)...then again, with the other runway dark, the guys had the traditional mental picture that THE runway was the LEFT runway, and THE taxiway, the right runway.
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Re: Cleared to land?

Postby ocelot » Fri Sep 08, 2017 5:59 am

The colors of incandescent lights become surprisingly indistinct at a distance. I wonder how much LED lighting improves this, if any.

That said, it's easy to do this: you expect to see two runways, you see two runways, even if one of them isn't. Especially somewhere you've been a zillion times before. They did at least notice that something was off... what happens with the same setup and Captain Ding Bang Ow?

Maybe inactive runways should get lit up red instead of turned off.

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Re: Cleared to land?

Postby reubee » Fri Sep 08, 2017 12:22 pm

Thought this page might have been referring to this recent incident http://www.avherald.com/h?article=4accb6aa&opt=0 Read the report http://knkt.dephub.go.id/knkt/ntsc_avia ... Report.pdf and check out the ages and experience levels of all concerned.
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Re: Cleared to land?

Postby 3WE » Fri Sep 08, 2017 2:37 pm

Thought this page might have been referring to...
To be honest, I forget exactly what this was referring to. I recall some discussion at JetPictures with the normal enthusiastic outsider recommendations as to how the industry really needs to change it's landing clearance procedures.

...perhaps some incident where the tower forgot to clear someone to land, or some brief CRM haggling on whether clearance was obtained- rather minor deal.

Nevertheless- this thread still beats the heck out of the discussion, there.
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Re: Cleared to land?

Postby J » Tue Oct 24, 2017 7:48 pm

Those Wacky Canadians Are At it Again

FAA probes second Air Canada landing flub at San Francisco International

An Air Canada flight missed a crucial landing instruction — delivered multiple times — as it touched down at San Francisco International Airport on Sunday night.

The incident triggered yet another Federal Aviation Administration investigation into the airline, months after the airline just missed a major crash there.

Air Canada Flight 781 from Montreal was six miles away from SFO when air traffic control cleared its landing. “The Air Canada crew acknowledged the instruction,” said FAA spokesman Ian Gregor. The plane was supposed to land on Runway 28R.

However, the tower controller was not sure that the runway would be completely clear by the time Flight 781 hit the ground, so he told the crew — repeatedly — to execute a “go-around,” a strategy pilots use to buy time on landings by circling the airport.

“Air Canada 781 go-around,” an air traffic controller said six times, according to a radio recording posted by the San Jose Mercury News.

According to Gregor, the instruction was given “repeatedly,” but the crew didn’t acknowledge the order. So a traffic supervisor used a red light gun — which Gregor called “standard protocol” for an unresponsive aircraft — to make sure the crew got the message. The crew did not circle the airport — it simply landed on the original runway.

Luckily for the plane, the runway was clear of traffic by the time it touched down at 9:26 p.m. After landing, the crew told the tower they had a radio problem.

Air Canada is investigating the incident, airline spokesman Peter Fitzpatrick said. “Upon landing the crew was informed the tower had attempted unsuccessfully to contact the aircraft, however the message was not received by the crew,” Fitzpatrick wrote in an email.

This weekend’s incident comes not long after an Air Canada flight on the same runway came within 100 feet of smashing into two planes waiting to leave.

In July, the pilot flying Air Canada Flight 759 from Toronto to San Francisco lined the plane up with a taxiway that ran parallel to runway 28R. According to the FAA, four full planes were lined up and awaiting approval to take off.

Canada’s Transportation Safety Board said in a preliminary report that the flight flew over the taxiway for a quarter-mile. Pilots told investigators “they did not recall seeing aircraft” on the taxiway but “something did not look right to them,” a National Transportation
Safety Board report stated.

One of the planes queued up on the taxiway turned on its lights as the crew saw the Air Canada jet draw near.

Air traffic control helped stem the collision by ordering the pilot to abort the landing and circle the airport. “Where is this guy going?” an unknown voice said on the air traffic control recording that day. “He’s on the taxiway!”

“Air Canada, go around,” traffic control said.

The Air Canada plane then successfully landed, about 50 minutes later than scheduled.

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-m ... story.html

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Re: Cleared to land?

Postby 3WE » Tue Oct 24, 2017 10:20 pm

I have been parlour talking there where they also cite this: http://avherald.com/h?article=4b016414&opt=0

At the time that I read the avhearld, there was no real statement as to exactly what the issue is that called for a go-around. I can imagine that the prior landing aircraft might have violated some required clearance from the runway...but then again, there is evidence that the prior plane could have properly cleared the runway.

Additionally, I tend to believe that the pilots saw a runway that was clear for all practical purposes, and landed with no risk- and this is regardless if the prior plane wasn't technically clear of the runway...

So largely, a non-event, IMHO (Acknowledging that the controllers might have gotten their panties in a wad as the pilots ignored their total authority).
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Re: Cleared to land?

Postby Gabriel » Tue Oct 24, 2017 11:51 pm

For the record and for what it's worth, I am against it being permitted that ATC clears an airplane X to land when there are other airplanes that will land or take-off in the same runway before the airplane X. I know that it is permitted in the US, it is not permitted in many other places of the world.

To clear an airplane to land, the RWY should be clear and expected to remain clear unit such airplane lands.

Yes, you can always order the go-around later. But you can also let the plane keep approaching and withheld the landing clearance until later. If the plane is about to touch down and have not received a landing clearance they must go around.

Remember the La Guardia accident where an MD-80 went off the side of the RWY? It was disabled with no radio for several minutes, and ATC didn't know because of the fog. It could have been TOTAL AIR DISASTER. Someone on the ground eventually saw the wreckage, advised ATC, and ATC told the plane on final, THAT WAS ALREADY CLEARED TO LAND, to go around.

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Re: Cleared to land?

Postby ocelot » Wed Oct 25, 2017 9:29 am

Also it seems to me that what they did was in accordance with the usual NORDO procedure.

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Re: Cleared to land?

Postby 3WE » Wed Oct 25, 2017 5:01 pm

Gabie: ***I am against it being permitted that ATC clears an airplane X to land when there are other airplanes that will land or take-off in the same runway before the airplane X. I know that it is permitted in the US, it is not permitted in many other places of the world.***
Yes, fact ( based upon reading aviation fora) the US handles "Cleared to land" differently from other countries.

Part of me blames Evan. You must legally be cleared to land, and if you land without being cleared, then paperwork will occur.

Therefore, let's dole out that landing clearance early, to let the pilots focus on operating the aircraft (seems like a good idea).

One key issue to your argument, is that there is NEVER a situation where you might not have to make a last-second go-around.

And, rather than changing the rules and stuff, I run (as usual) to situational awareness...the landing plane should keep track of traffic, ATC should really help the landing planes keep track of traffic.

Ok, in clear conditions- a big nothing.

In nasty IMC when you run your MD-80 off the side and pilots don't have a great view- ATC does need to step it up and 'guarantee' that the runway is clear for landing... Foul on the tower that night when they didn't check ground radar/whatever to confirm the plane had properly cleared the runway...

Of course, there's the tough part....WHAT'S THE BACKUP to help the pilots when ATC drops the ball?

I guess if clearED to land really meant clear TO land, the tower might get a mental reminder/be forced to be aware of runway status instead of legal status...then again, do we really want to unnecessarily be waiting for what, 99% of the time, is a legal technicality...and which forces the pilots to be making last second clearance checks, and preparing to go-around less the face the wrath of Evancrats with enforcement powers?

This is corny as heck, but it always killed me on sunny days when guys called the unicom to say "xxx is clear of the active"...Oddly, we do not do that in big planes at big airports...in the day- it's a bad joke....in hard IMC....do we need to do that?

Finally, and most importantly- Our friends who REALLY do this for a living are notably silent...is this one more case of "it ain't broke, so quit trying to fix it with your parlour ass-hattery"?

So, I don't know Gabie...I can see the advantage of consistency and the advantage of 'forcing' ATC to really monitor the runway (a little bit more than what they might do otherwise)....but I also see the disadvantage of holding this nit-picky-legal-technicality to the end where it may be unnecessarily distracting? Is it reasonable for a landing plane to "call clear" in IMC or is that a stupid outside ass-hat idea?


Footonte: I still do not remember the specific incident, but I now remember that I posted this thread here, when this very topic- clearED to land versus clear TO land- was being beaten to death there.
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Re: Cleared to land?

Postby Gabriel » Wed Oct 25, 2017 8:51 pm

One key issue to your argument, is that there is NEVER a situation where you might not have to make a last-second go-around.
I totally agree with the underlined part, I fail to see how is that a key issue to my argument.
In nasty IMC when you run your MD-80 off the side and pilots don't have a great view- ATC does need to step it up and 'guarantee' that the runway is clear for landing... Foul on the tower that night when they didn't check ground radar/whatever to confirm the plane had properly cleared the runway...
In that case, the problem is that the airplane behind the disabled MD-80 had already been cleared to land. In other parts the ATC could not have cleared the plane to land without confirming first that the 1st plane had already cleared the RWY (which, in no vis conditions, normally comes as "ABC on TWY X for the gate" what the tower would reply with ABC contact ground on 123.4, DEF cleared to land".

In VMC it is different, since pilot can establish and maintain visual separation. "DEF, you are #2 for landing, #1 is an MD-80 just landed" "DEF, has the MD-80 in sight" "DEF, with the MD-80 clearing the runway, you are cleared to land" (I don't know how would be the phraseology in English, that was a sort of translation from Spanish)

Of course, there's the tough part....WHAT'S THE BACKUP to help the pilots when ATC drops the ball?
do we really want to unnecessarily be waiting for what, 99% of the time, is a legal technicality...and which forces the pilots to be making last second clearance checks, and preparing to go-around less the face the wrath of Evancrats with enforcement powers?
The go-around awareness and readiness must be there anyway, as you very well explained yourself but then seem to contradict.

Take the VMC example, you are landing behind another plane ant it will be tight. Aren't you going to be ready to go around, cleared or not? Now say that you are in IMC so you CANNOT know by yourself the whereabouts of the plane in front of you and you are already cleared to land... The set up for the disaster is there. It has nit hit hard so far, in a similar way than wrong take-off performance. The gap is there and the clock is ticking. And this one is so easy to fix!!!! I don't see any disadvantage of withholding the landing clearance until the RWY is clear and expected to remain so, at lest in IMC and night.
Is it reasonable for a landing plane to "call clear" in IMC or is that a stupid outside ass-hat idea?
Is it not the case already???
Footonte: I still do not remember the specific incident, but I now remember that I posted this thread here, when this very topic- clearED to land versus clear TO land- was being beaten to death there.
http://avherald.com/h?article=482b659f/0004&opt=0

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Re: Cleared to land?

Postby 3WE » Wed Oct 25, 2017 10:11 pm


Issue Uno:
One key issue to your argument, is that there is NEVER a situation where you might not have to make a last-second go-around.

I totally agree with the underlined part, I fail to see how is that a key issue to my argument.


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Issue Dos:
do we really want to unnecessarily be waiting for what, 99% of the time, is a legal technicality...and which forces the pilots to be making last second clearance checks, and preparing to go-around less the face the wrath of Evancrats with enforcement powers?

The go-around awareness and readiness must be there anyway, as you very well explained yourself but then seem to contradict.


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Well, don't we have a circular argument...

I think the answer is that we are both right?

Issue Uno: Given that the pilots ALWAYS have to be ready for a go-around, clearing them early does not_ prevent them from a late go-around...that somewhat invalidates your argument that you should WAIT till a busier time to clear them because there is no benefit.

Issue Dos: Ok, I agree that you successfully twisted my own argument and stuck it back in my face.

BUT

I stick with the bottom line (and it's one risk versus another risk).

To me it all centers around the NOT_RARE incident of forgetting to clear someone to land- That adds stress and adds the EVER SO SLIGHT distraction that Evan worries about.... I think my key point is that it's not rare to FORGET to clear someone, so doing it early, reduces the forgetfulness and the net is an improvement in safety.

...I don't totally disagree with you on any of this, but it's a very tough proposition where we see a system that isn't broken.

AND- Late landing clearance would not guarantee that ATC would have caught the MD-80 that went off-roading...MAYBE it would have...but you have to balance that versus a whole lot of guys on a 1.5 mile final fretting over their landing clearance, when there is absolutely no reason to fret.
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Re: Cleared to land?

Postby ocelot » Mon Dec 11, 2017 7:21 am

http://avherald.com/h?article=4b1fa4f6&opt=0

I agree with Gabriel: it's only a matter of time before enough swiss cheese lines up and something serious happens.

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Re: Cleared to land?

Postby 3WE » Mon Dec 11, 2017 12:53 pm

http://avherald.com/h?article=4b1fa4f6&opt=0

I agree with Gabriel: it's only a matter of time before enough swiss cheese lines up and something serious happens.
Let me say this...

Go ahead and change the rule.

I still say that "it's only a matter of time before enough swiss cheese lines up" (EXCEPT in this manner): someone's gonna be on short short final and farting around trying to get or confirm a landing clearance and the distractions are going to lead to a botched landing or go-around or something...

Rather than the this OR that argument, I prefer 'tweaking' something that guarantees that pilots-themselves- are into absolute full situational awareness of the runway status.

'Tweaking' is the word- I imagine Flyboy and his like are damn near always aware of the runway status- but it seems that "we" are not always aware of things.

Some kind of RADAR (or TCAS tracks the roll out(and maybe it does already))...some requirement that you call 'clear of the runway' (in IMC and light).
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Re: Cleared to land?

Postby J » Thu May 03, 2018 7:30 pm

Here is an article including a security camera video of Air Canada almost taking the taxiway.


Excerpt:
SAN FRANCISCO — Federal aviation investigators released stunning video footage and data Wednesday showing the near-disastrous landing of an Air Canada flight at San Francisco International Airport came as close as 5 feet from striking a Philippine Airlines jet lined up on a taxiway last July — much closer than previously reported.

In its lengthy report Wednesday on one of the most troubling close calls in SFO’s history — an Air Canada jet almost landing on top of four passenger jets awaiting takeoff — the National Transportation Safety Board found the crew felt fatigued during the flight, that the first officer was twice rejected in his application for promotion, and that another pilot landing at SFO that night complained about too-bright construction lights that made it difficult to find the proper runway.

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When asked to confirm that Air Canada passed within 5 feet of the other jet based on the NTSB chart, a spokesman said they would have to consult the investigators. But former United pilot Ross Aimer reviewed the NTSB data and said it appeared the planes got incredibly close.

“If the tail of (Air Canada) was directly above the A340’s rudder (which may not be the case) the direct vertical distance would be 5 (feet)!” Aimer wrote in an email.
The NTSB report also presents a much clearer idea of what happened in the cockpit during those final crucial moments on approach and named the pilots involved for the first time.

Air Canada Capt. James Kisses switched off the autopilot once the plane reached the final approach and took over flying. As they neared the airport, he saw lights on the runway and asked his co-pilot Matthew Dampier to verify the runway was clear.

At about 11:55 p.m., radio traffic indicates that Dampier asked the SFO air traffic controllers: “Just want to confirm this is Air Canada 759 we see some lights on the runway there across the runway. Can you confirm we’re cleared to land?”

The tower, believing the plane was lined up for the correct Runway 28R, said the runway was clear, not realizing the plane was actually lined up on the crowded parallel taxiway.

The first officer described how in the moments before radioing the tower for clarification he had been “looking more inside the cockpit than out because” he was focused on preparing the plane for landing, according to the NTSB report.

When Dampier looked up from his chart as the captain asked him to query the tower, he looked outside and said it “didn’t look right” and he had a “bad feeling in his stomach,” according to the report.

“Although he was not certain what was incorrect, he was unable to process what he was seeing. He subsequently commanded the go around to the captain by saying ‘go around go around,’ ” according to the report. Kisses told investigators “things were not adding up” and that it “did not look good,” and as he got even closer it “still felt odd” and he aborted the landing.

The pilot and co-pilot had never flown together before that night. Dampier, 42, said they both began to feel tired while still an hour away from SFO. While neither man had a previous incident or accident, Dampier had two “unsatisfactory” attempts to become a captain.

“According to the simulator instructors and checkairmen that conducted the incident first officer’s upgrade attempt, the reason for the unsatisfactory upgrade was the first officer’s lack of situational awareness, failure to correctly identify a mandatory altitude on an arrival, non-precision approaches, and a lack of performance to the Transport Canada required performance standards,” according to the report.

Some instructors described Dampier as “nervous” and a “weak candidate.”

Air Canada has not said if either man was disciplined. The 56-year-old captain has 20,000 flying hours, and the first officer has 10,000 flying hours. Both men live in Toronto, meaning their body clock was at 3 a.m. during the landing.

Dampier told investigators it was not until they left the plane that night — after a second, successful landing — that they remembered about the runway closure at SFO.

Dampier told investigators as they taxied to the gate at SFO that night he realized the result “could have been bad.”

The NTSB also interviewed the flight crews who got buzzed by the Air Canada plane as they sat on the taxiway. Many pointed to the quick thinking of United Airlines Flight 1 Capt. Keith Freeberg, who had been first in line at the end of Taxiway C waiting to take off. He saw the Air Canada plane headed toward them and radioed: “Where’s that guy going, he’s on the taxiway!”

Steve Shoquist, a relief first officer on United 863, which was third in line on the taxiway, said the plane turned on all its lights in a last ditch effort to warn the Air Canada plane it was about to land on them.

“Air Canada went around, and a huge disaster that would have many fatalities, including myself was avoided,” Shoquist told investigators.

Another pilot told investigators that the air traffic controller that night was overburdened with work directing air, ground and other radio traffic. The FAA has since ordered two controllers to be in the tower at SFO at all times during the night rush hour. At the time of the landing, one controller was in the tower, and the second was on break.

The air traffic controller that night, Brian Delucchi, also was interviewed by the NTSB and recalled talking to the “shaken” Air Canada pilot shortly after the incident.

“He (said the pilot) had not realized how close the aircraft had gotten to each other … and (he) did not want to ‘freak the guy out since he seemed shaken,’ ” according to the report.

The Air Canada pilots were not the only ones confused by runway configuration that night, when Runway 28L was closed for construction. Another airline’s flight crew that landed on Runway 28R four minutes before the Air Canada flight reported to investigators the “construction lights were so bright we could not determine the location of the inboard runway, 28L,” according to the report.

That crew said they too questioned whether they were properly lined up for Runway 28R but checked with their instruments to confirm the right path.


http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-m ... story.html

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Re: Cleared to land?

Postby J » Thu Sep 06, 2018 2:56 pm

NTSB will hold a public meeting on the AC incident on September 25 - these meetings are often available by webcast during the session and for a few weeks after.

Federal Register Volume 83, Number 173 (Thursday, September 6, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Page 45285]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-19425]


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NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD


Sunshine Act Meeting

TIME AND DATE: 9:00 a.m., Tuesday, September 25, 2018.

PLACE: NTSB Conference Center, 429 L'Enfant Plaza SW, Washington, DC
20594.

STATUS: The two items are open to the public.

MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED:
58357 Highway Special Investigation of Pedestrian Safety
58387 Aircraft Incident Report--Taxiway Overflight, Air Canada Flight 759, Airbus A320-211, C-FKCK, San Francisco, California, July 7, 2017

NEWS MEDIA CONTACT: Telephone: (202) 314-6100.
The press and public may enter the NTSB Conference Center one hour prior to the meeting for set up and seating.
Individuals requesting specific accommodations should contact Rochelle McCallister at (202) 314-6305 or by email at
Rochelle.McCallister@ntsb.gov by Wednesday, September 19, 2018.
The public may view the meeting via a live or archived webcast by accessing a link under ``News & Events'' on the NTSB home page at
www.ntsb.gov.
Schedule updates, including weather-related cancellations, are also available at www.ntsb.gov.

FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT: Candi Bing at (202) 314-6403 or by email at bingc@ntsb.gov.

FOR MEDIA INFORMATION CONTACT: Christopher O'Neil at (202) 314-6100 or by email at christopher.oneill@ntsb.gov for the Highway Special
Investigation of Pedestrian Safety and Keith Hollow at (202) 314-6100 or by email at keith.holloway@ntsb.gov for the Aircraft Accident
Report.

Tuesday, September 4, 2018.
Candi R. Bing,
Federal Register Liaison Officer.
[FR Doc. 2018-19425 Filed 9-4-18; 11:15 am]
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Re: Cleared to land?

Postby 3WE » Fri Sep 07, 2018 10:55 pm

Might be fun to post this, there.

Public comment portion where we could comment?

(No real intention to comment...but would laugh if I heard the word Evan uttered)
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Re: Cleared to land?

Postby 3WE » Wed Mar 01, 2023 4:30 am

I’m still not_sure this is the earliest debate.

And while we, here may have made little progress, I think Gabe and Evanie are going backwards.
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Re: Cleared to land?

Postby Gabriel » Wed Mar 01, 2023 5:36 am

I’m still not_sure this is the earliest debate.

And while we, here may have made little progress, I think Gabe and Evanie are going backwards.
Be patient. I already told the FAA that their in-advance landing clearances stink. It took me a few years to convince the FAA, EASA, Boeing, Airbus and Flyboy, among others, that their stall procedure stunk.

It was either that or the streak of deadly stall accidents. We just had a streak of not-deadly landing incidents. Perhaps we need to demand a few deadly ones to provoke some reaction.

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Re: Cleared to land?

Postby Not_Karl » Thu Mar 02, 2023 7:45 am

Perhaps we need to demand that ALL landings and take-offs are banned.
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Re: Cleared to land, not_Gabriel Style

Postby 3WE » Wed Mar 08, 2023 1:50 am

American Airlines crew averts possible disaster in Sarasota, Florida close call

By Chris Pandolfo FOXBusiness

The National Transportation Safety Board said Monday it is investigating a close call between two flights at Sarasota Bradenton International Airport.

According to NTSB, on Feb. 16, an Air Canada Rouge A-321 aircraft was cleared for takeoff on Runway 14 at the same time an American Airlines B-737 plane was cleared to land on the same runway.

Officials said the American Airlines crew self-initiated a go-around, aborting the landing.
Great news reporting…no details, and lots of flowery, dramatic language.

I used to see go-arounds once a day at flyover…never read about them on the internet, but it didn’t exist then.

But given the investigation, there must be a little more to this one. Shoulder shrug for now…

AvHeraldie: https://avherald.com/h?article=506158c5&opt=0

Edit: AvHeraldie suggests the departing aircraft delayed their takeoff roll by 30 seconds due to double radio broadcasts…the landing plane descended to 150 ft AGL. Weather was decent VMC.

I really feel this is like the stuff I’ve seen at flyover…not sure there was a near miss, as much as “normal precautions”.

https://www.airdisaster.info/viewtopic.php?t=7178
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Re: Cleared to land, not_Gabriel Style

Postby elaw » Wed Mar 08, 2023 12:43 pm

American Airlines crew averts possible disaster in Sarasota, Florida close call
When I first saw this, I thought they managed to avoid landing in Florida. Sadly that was not the case.
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Re: Cleared to land?

Postby Gabriel » Wed Mar 08, 2023 3:26 pm

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