757 Lands on Taxiway at EWR & Pilots Bolt

[Metro752]

Does anyone know the width of the main gear on the 757? I'd be interested to know how much clearance the gear had from the taxiway edge.

Although if the wheels went off the edge, from the information provided on this thread about EWR, they wouldn't be running over any more than the plastic reflectors. And maybe some signs.

IMHO, this is a situation where the average crews will make mistakes regularly (perhaps 1 every 1000?) ... a circle to land in the type of weather described, in a 757 where the crew probably hasn't done that type of approach in the airplane in months or years, to EWR and runway with no navaid. In other words, it's probably a good thing that this 4/29 circle is rare.

Single pilot, I once aborted a takeoff on on a taxiway. I didn't turn myself in and the tower didn't either. I got lucky.

like 10-20 feet....maybe between the main gear...........how wide is the fuselage Boeing says 12 feet........

 

[Diesel-9]

All the information they needed is on 10-9A. A bare minimum approach briefing covers lighting, papi/vasi availability/location, navaids, length, expected turnoff, etc...especially on a runway not used in normal ops.... And this was at on of their hubs.

 

[Captain X]

If you can't do it, don't accept it...

As a rule, I don't. But thanks for the suggestion.

And for what it's worth, the word is the pilots involved filed an ASAP report which has been accepted by the ERC.

That lends me to think that everyone (company, ALPA, and FAA) agrees there are deficiencies and threats to safety at the EWR airport that could lead to any of us doing the exact same thing.