AA lands on taxiway at SEA

[atpcliff]

Hi!

Here's the link to this thread and article:

http://www.airliners.net/discussions/general_aviation/read.main/1054940/

Cliff
GRB

 

[Chas]

pretty weird1

I know seatac is building a 3 rd runway . Maybe they should save the money and just use some additional lighting LOL

 

[pylut]

Way to go aa..........duh!!!!

I guess arrogance doesn't equate to piloting skills

 

[nimtz]

Way to go aa..........duh!!!!

I guess arrogance doesn't equate to piloting skills

The day you're not subject to f*cking up is the day you start wearing angel wings. I'm guessing from your bitterness you are ex-TWA. I'd be careful with shoving this down somebody's face. After all I seem to remember TWA putting an 80 into a 5K strip out in Colorado which they mistakened for Telluride.

 

[Typhoon1244]

Way to go AA..........duh!!!

Easy does it, hotshot. There's a guy out there with twice the hours you've got who's been flying out of ATL for twenty years...and made the same mistake, landed on a parallel taxiway. (To be precise, he let his F/O do it.)

There's a Delta 767 captain out there who is one helluva pilot. He sure didn't get where he was by being a dirtbag...but he still shut down both engines during the initial climb.

Who'd have thought a 757 loaded with state-of-the-art navigation equipment would fly into a Columbian mountain?

Even I, paragon of aviation that I am, once reversed some loading instructions to an F/A (too many pax. aft.) and had a Brasilia "auto-rotate" at V1 - 10.

People with excellent flying skills make mistakes. As long as people fly airplanes, stuff like this is gonna happen. We just have to hope that nobody get's hurt when it does.

 

[ShawnC]

FlyChicaga,

Well is always my smooth move, "Turn to 250... *short pause as I make the turn* You know it would have been faster if you just turned 10 degress to the left instead of taking the long way around."

 

[Brother Francis]

"There but for the grace of God go I."

It is bad karma to crow at the mistakes of others.

 

[AV8OR]

"The object of the game is to keep the dirt out of the pitot tubes."

Man that is hillarious! Where did you hear that one?

ROFLMAO

 

[JetPilot500]

I landed a Citation II on a taxiway once.

But then again, I was instructed to do so since it was during Sun 'n Fun!

It was kinda cool!!!

JetPilot500

 

[pylut]

QUOTE "Who'd have thought a 757 loaded with state-of-the-art navigation equipment would fly into a Columbian mountain?" QUOTE

Hey wasn't that aa as well? Did you know that in the aa charts There is a note on the SEA 20-9 page advising pilots not to mistake taxiway "C" for the landing surface?
I guess they should have added a note to remove head from posterior.

True I do remember TWA puting an 80 into a 5000' strip in CO. I suppose if it was aa they would have put it in the dirt prior to the runway and bounced onto the pavement. Or maybe landed halfway down the runway with no spoilers and slammed into the approach lights at the far end a la LIT.

 

[Lonestar]

Go home pylut

...and take your snide a$$ remarks with you.

 

[ceo_of_the_sofa]

There's a Delta 767 captain out there who is one helluva pilot. He sure didn't get where he was by being a dirtbag...but he still shut down both engines during the initial climb

link? article? anything?

 

[flywithastick]

True I do remember TWA puting an 80 into a 5000' strip in CO. I suppose if it was aa they would have put it in the dirt prior to the runway and bounced onto the pavement. Or maybe landed halfway down with no spoilers and slammed into the approach lights at the far end a la LIT. [/B]

Talk about bringing on the bad juju! Man, I don't care how bad you got flushed by AA, you're gonna make us all screw up talking like that.

 

[chperplt]

There's a Delta 767 captain out there who is one helluva pilot. He sure didn't get where he was by being a dirtbag...but he still shut down both engines during the initial climb

ink? article? anything?

This happened in the early 90s climbing out of LAX I think... No idea where to find any reference to it though.

 

[Brother Francis]

I remember that, but the details are fuzzy. Something about the proximity of the fuel shutoffs to some other frequently used control. There was some redesign of switch locations in the 76 cockpits following the incident.

 

[Kingairrick]

Landing in the wrong place...

Delta: MacDill AFB instead of TPA in the mid-eighties
Continental: Puerto Rico, an AFB instead of San Juan
TWA: Above mentioned Telluride

That's just off the top of my head.

Moral: Don't throw rocks. Knowing that you could be the next poindexter who pulls a boner move is what being careful in this business is about.

 

[sf3boy]

A couple of years back, NWA landed a DC-9 on the wrong runway, right over the top of an AA plane.

A couple of years back US Air landed on a taxi way in DTW during the day. The yellow solid line should have been the first clue to go around.

 

[EagleRJ]

The Northwest incident was at DFW. They were cleared to land on 17C, but landed on 17R over the top of traffic that was in position. DFW can be a confusing airport for pilots who aren't based there. Five parallel runways and nine parallel taxiways, two of which used to be runways!

Also, both Continental and Continental Express have flown from Houston to Corpus Christi, but landed at Cabaniss Field, an abandoned Navy practice field just south of CRP that has an identical runway outline.

 

[AA717driver]

DAL shutdown...

767 on takeoff from LAX got an EEC fail EICAS message. Proceedure is to turn off the EEC's. At that time, I believe they were located right under the fuel switches.
(I started flying the 767 after the AD came out.)

Apparently, the Capt. reached up and killed both fuel switches rather than both EEC switches. The fuel switches are levers and (now) the EEC's are pushlights.

Dumb s**t move but, like most AD's or regs., someone had to screw up for change to occur.TC