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Continental 757 Lands on Taxiway at Newark!!!
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Tue Oct 31, 2006 1:48 pmby Fly2e
FAA examining why jet landed on taxiway, not runway, at major NYC-area airport
NEWARK, N.J. - Federal authorities are investigating how a jetliner carrying more than 160 people landed on a taxiway instead of an adjacent runway at Newark
Re: Continental 757 Lands on Taxiway at Newark!!!
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Tue Oct 31, 2006 2:19 pmby Mees
Re: Continental 757 Lands on Taxiway at Newark!!!
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Tue Oct 31, 2006 3:57 pmby Nexus
It has been done before...humans can make very weird decisions at times.
The runway did not have ILS, but it should nevertheless be a given that proffesional pilots can land properly. ::)
Re: Continental 757 Lands on Taxiway at Newark!!!
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Tue Oct 31, 2006 3:59 pmby Alonso
That must be scary... pretty strange situation :S
Re: Continental 757 Lands on Taxiway at Newark!!!
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Tue Oct 31, 2006 4:14 pmby beefhole
How many times has this happenned now? I've heard of it happening in South America, the UK, either Sweden/Switzerland/Netherlands, and a couple times in the US.
I just feel bad for the pilots
Re: Continental 757 Lands on Taxiway at Newark!!!
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Tue Oct 31, 2006 6:18 pmby KDSM
Pilot gets out with embarrased look on his face and says to the FAA
Re: Continental 757 Lands on Taxiway at Newark!!!
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Tue Oct 31, 2006 6:38 pmby Saitek
That's crazy. I would have though that it was pretty obvious where he was landing. I admit though he was pretty smart to get a 757 down the middle of a taxiway!
Re: Continental 757 Lands on Taxiway at Newark!!!
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Tue Oct 31, 2006 6:50 pmby Alonso
[quote]
Co-Pilot "I dare you to land on the taxi-way"
Pilot "I could if I wanted to but I dont want too"
Co-Pilot
Re: Continental 757 Lands on Taxiway at Newark!!!
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Tue Oct 31, 2006 7:25 pmby Woodlouse2002
How could there be no other crew on board except the co-pilot? Is it just a free for all aft of the cockpit on Continental Airlines?
Re: Continental 757 Lands on Taxiway at Newark!!!
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Tue Oct 31, 2006 9:02 pmby Willit Run
Has not been to good for Newark the last couple of days!!
Re: Continental 757 Lands on Taxiway at Newark!!!
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Tue Oct 31, 2006 10:21 pmby beaky
Oh, dear...
I'm scheduled to fly Continental out of KEWR tomorrow (ERJ145 to KBUF).; returning Thursday afternoon. Anybody got a spare set of rosary beads?
Eh, what the heck... they'll all be on their best behavior after this one... and landing an RJ on a KEWR taxiway is probably a snap... ;D
Re: Continental 757 Lands on Taxiway at Newark!!!
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Wed Nov 01, 2006 3:48 amby expat
Oh, dear...
I'm scheduled to fly Continental out of KEWR tomorrow (ERJ145 to KBUF).; returning Thursday afternoon. Anybody got a spare set of rosary beads?
No, but my grandfather passed a couple of months ago, and we just sorted out his cloths. I could post you his underware. ;D
Matt
Re: Continental 757 Lands on Taxiway at Newark!!!
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Wed Nov 01, 2006 7:27 amby Chris_F
Humans make mistakes. Even very well trained, very experienced humans. So long as humans are in the loop mistakes like this will happen.
I bet this guy's made hundreds of perfectly safe, text book landings, so his ability to land a plane safely shouldn't be in question. It's the human error factor that caused this incident.
Glad nobody was hurt.
Re: Continental 757 Lands on Taxiway at Newark!!!
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Wed Nov 01, 2006 10:41 amby RitterKreuz
the crew decided it was time for a quick early retirement
Re: Continental 757 Lands on Taxiway at Newark!!!
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Wed Nov 01, 2006 12:21 pmby Hagar
[quote]How many times has this happenned now?
