Continental 757 Lands on Taxiway at Newark!!!

[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

[Mees]

[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.  ::)

[Alonso]

That must be scary... pretty strange situation :S

[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

[KDSM]

Pilot gets out with embarrased look on his face and says to the FAA

[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!

[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

[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?

[Willit Run]

Has not been to good for Newark the last couple of days!!

[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

[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

[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.

[RitterKreuz]

the crew decided it was time for a quick early retirement

[Hagar]

[quote]How many times has this happenned now?