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[Pedro]

LINK:
http://www.cnn.com/2...y.ap/index.html

Im sincerly amazed. I just don't understand how this happened.

[Timmeh]

Sometimes taxiways look like runways. That could be a reason lol

Maybe there was something on the runway.

At least no one was hurt.

Edited by Timmeh, 31 October 2006 - 04:27 PM.

[Andrewsarchus]

It says about the lights though and how they're different colours from runway lights, surely as pilots they would of known that?
Weird anyway, I'd love to know why this happened.

[Cactus]

the taxiway at Sea-Tac is especially bad for this...

[N3123V]

Pedro, on Oct 31 2006, 04:23 PM, said:

I just don't understand how this happened.

That makes two of us. Anyone know what the weather was like?

[Prancer]

N3123V, on Oct 31 2006, 04:52 PM, said:

Pedro, on Oct 31 2006, 04:23 PM, said:

I just don't understand how this happened.

That makes two of us. Anyone know what the weather was like?

Maybe the crew was just stupid?  

[IndependenceFAN]

Zarquen, on Oct 31 2006, 05:02 PM, said:

N3123V, on Oct 31 2006, 04:52 PM, said:

Pedro, on Oct 31 2006, 04:23 PM, said:

I just don't understand how this happened.

That makes two of us. Anyone know what the weather was like?

Maybe the crew was just stupid?  

there is no way continental would have hired "a stupid crew"...there obviously HAD to have been a good reason, or (if i was someone with little knowledge of the airlines) i would think twice about flying on continental..  

Edited by IndependenceFAN, 31 October 2006 - 05:39 PM.

[as737700]

SuperDuke, on Oct 31 2006, 01:29 PM, said:

the taxiway at Sea-Tac is especially bad for this...

   it's happened so many times at Seattle that they have this on the back of the Jepps:

[Mythical747]

aint that something?

[Fulcrum29]

Im not to surprised, sometimes when Im landing on a runway with a taxiway running parallel to it, its hard to distinguish one from the other until its to late to make a change and I have to land on the taxiway.  The pilots might have done the same thing.

[Mythical747]

yeah the thing is fs2004/fsx is a game not real life..

Edited by Mythical747, 31 October 2006 - 06:18 PM.

[DeLaGhetto]

Oh Sh** ...... That happened on KEWR.....i lived 4 blocks away from it  

[DeLaGhetto]

Mythical747, on Oct 31 2006, 06:17 PM, said:

yeah the thing is fs2004/fsx is a game not real life..

I think he meant they got confused like he did  

[Chaos81]

Mythical747, on Oct 31 2006, 05:17 PM, said:

yeah the thing is fs2004/fsx is a game not real life..

Really? Where have you been my whole life. I needed someone to let me in on that secret.

[C172pilot]

I know at LAS, they have wavey lines down the center of the taxiways as many pilots complained about the illusion created by the taxiway and neighboring runway when approaching on clear days.

I'm surprised more airports don't have these..

[Penguin.]

C172pilot, on Oct 31 2006, 06:35 PM, said:

I know at LAS, they have wavey lines down the center of the taxiways as many pilots complained about the illusion created by the taxiway and neighboring runway when approaching on clear days.

I'm surprised more airports don't have these..

SEA has large X signs.

[B777_300ER]

Wouldn't the ILS be pointing to the runway and not taxiway? Also, how can you land on a taxiway? I mean, how can a pilot not be able to spot a runway!! It's like driving on a sidewalk without noticing it...

[newflyer]

B777_300ER, on Oct 31 2006, 08:45 PM, said:

Wouldn't the ILS be pointing to the runway and not taxiway?

Not all approaches are ILS.

[WhitsonGraphics]

Mythical747, on Oct 31 2006, 06:17 PM, said:

yeah the thing is fs2004/fsx is a game not real life..

Its not a game its a Sim, we don't play FS we fly it.



Well I guess something like landing on a taxi way is bound to happen sooner or later. The pilots are human beings and making errors is apart of being a human being. Sometimes mistakes are bigger than others, obviously in this case. Its just good that there was not anything else on the taxi way when the plane decided to land on it.

[GuttahMastah]

Interesting...