Thats an awful narrow runway Captian.............

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Postby Papa9571 » Wed Apr 02, 2008 12:11 am

A Continential flight landed on the taxiway at Newark.

http://www.nypost.com/seven/10312006/ne ... olshan.htm
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Postby Mitch. » Wed Apr 02, 2008 12:40 am

That article is from 2006, still unbelievable :o
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Postby OVERLORD_CHRIS » Wed Apr 02, 2008 6:48 am

This does not excite me no more, it has happen so many times over seas when I was deployed that it just became a "who did it now? and what type of plane?" Granted some of it came from the ATC giving last min changes.

But on a safety side, good thing nothing else was taxing on the same taxiway.
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Postby The Ruptured Duck » Wed Apr 02, 2008 10:02 am

Reminds me of the story about 2 airline pilots that came in to land on a very short runway, white knuckled and sweaty, and almost ran off the end.  They got out of the airplane looking proud, when one of them looked around and said "this runway may be incredibly short, but my god its wide!"

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Postby C » Wed Apr 02, 2008 11:26 am

How about a real narrow runway. 50ft wide. Can you land a 747 on that?...


http://www.jetphotos.net/viewphoto.php?id=5826331



That was the first. I believe they've also done it with a 100/200/300/400 (delete whichever it wasn't - I cannae be bothered to look it up!) since.
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Postby Chris_F » Wed Apr 02, 2008 12:27 pm

Wasn't there an incident or two at Seattle as well?  Those events were attributed to solar glare off of the runway or taxiway at certain times of day.
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Re: Thats an awful narrow runway Captian.............

Postby flyboy 28 » Wed Apr 02, 2008 9:19 pm

How about a real narrow runway. 50ft wide. Can you land a 747 on that?...


http://www.jetphotos.net/viewphoto.php?id=5826331



That was the first. I believe they've also done it with a 100/200/300/400 (delete whichever it wasn't - I cannae be bothered to look it up!) since.


It was a -200. Here's the video.

[media]http://youtube.com/watch?v=f3NmLD5Z3EY[/media]
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Postby C » Thu Apr 03, 2008 1:42 am

How about a real narrow runway. 50ft wide. Can you land a 747 on that?...


http://www.jetphotos.net/viewphoto.php?id=5826331



That was the first. I believe they've also done it with a 100/200/300/400 (delete whichever it wasn't - I cannae be bothered to look it up!) since.


It was a -200. Here's the video.

[media]http://youtube.com/watch?v=f3NmLD5Z3EY[/media]


Looking at that video, that's the 747SP that originally did it (the video title says so too). ;) :)

You're right though, it was a 747-200. :)
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Postby flyboy 28 » Sat Apr 05, 2008 8:12 am

How about a real narrow runway. 50ft wide. Can you land a 747 on that?...


http://www.jetphotos.net/viewphoto.php?id=5826331



That was the first. I believe they've also done it with a 100/200/300/400 (delete whichever it wasn't - I cannae be bothered to look it up!) since.


It was a -200. Here's the video.

[media]http://youtube.com/watch?v=f3NmLD5Z3EY[/media]


Looking at that video, that's the 747SP that originally did it (the video title says so too). ;) :)

You're right though, it was a 747-200. :)


Whoops. I just realized I should have been more clear with that. :)
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