DAL 767 lands taxiway M at ATL

[B-atch]

...Awh...heres some more fuel for this fire...Was the Capt. over 60?

 

[marycon]

"Pilots Worked For Previous Carrier"
Oct 21 2009

AP - Atlanta, GA In a recent incicident, a Delta Airlines jet landed on a taxiway instead of a runway at the Atlanta Hartsfield International airport just a few days ago. While pilots are trained to land on runways in most circumstances, this is not the first incident of its kind in U.S. history.

However, the AP has recently discovered that both Delta pilots associated with this "taxiway landing" were previously employed by a Regional Airline. Regional Airlines have been making the news since February this year when Colgan Air crashed outside of Buffalo, NY killing 51 people. Regional Airlines and their pilots are considered less safe than their Major Airline counterparts by many public opinion polls. As both pilots involved in the Delta incident were previously employed by a Regional Airline it is almost certain that their unsafe "regional behavior" was a contributing factor to the taxiway landing. The AP has also learned that while employed at the Regional Carrier both pilots were routinely in the habit of: not wearing their hats, wearing backpacks and ipods in the terminal, wearing sunglasses inside, picking up open time during furloughs just to make a buck, not participating in solidarity, leaving coffee puddles in cup holders, not taking their own trash from the cockpit, thinking they were cool just because they were pilots, and not having the decency to say "hello" to fellow employees at work.

Congress is at work to pass a bill improving the safety level at all airlines including Regionals. Such a bill will undoubtaly make it illegal for all Regional Airline Pilots to fly anything.

copied from another board, not my original idea but funny anyway;

 

[Northern Lights]

http://www.allbusiness.com/operations/shipping-air-freight/165691-1.html

NWA landed an Airbus at Ellsworth AFB instead of Rapid City a few years back.

 

[BOX OFFICE]

The reason this "incident" hasn't had the press coverage that recent regional "accidents" have had is most likely due to the fact that no one got killed.

Just a hunch, but I bet there are numerous "incidents" every week that don't get much media attention. When a mainline aircraft has an "accident" with fatalities, it gets plenty of press.

Let's wait for the results of the investigation, then let's talk about it.

I submit that even though no one was hurt, this still would have been major news if it were a regional. Why the double standard?

 

[wms]

It happened to a regional on romeo, and it wasn't a news story.

 

[BOX OFFICE]

It happened to a regional on romeo, and it wasn't a news story.

Post Comair and Colgan?

 

[jehtplane]

Reality check, people. If an RJ did this it would have gotten National Attention, and the talking heads on cable news would be saying how inexperienced and dangerous regional pilots are, how the schedules lead to fatigue, blah blah blah.

Mainline does it, and it's a 30 second blurb, with shoulder shrugs and "well, it happens, at least no one was hurt".

Total Double Standard. I think this is what all the Regional pilots who posted are tying to say!

A Regional Airline did land on a taxiway several years ago, in ATL.

 

[PeanuckleCRJ]

A Regional Airline did land on a taxiway several years ago, in ATL.

By accident, or are you the 6th person to point out that M was used as a runway for a while?

 

[jehtplane]

By accident, or are you the 6th person to point out that M was used as a runway for a while?

Actually it was Romeo, and this crew landed on it while it was a taxi-way and not being used as the temporary runway.

 

[Torpid]

If this would have happened at a regional, the media would have had a field day. The press would have been all over it. They would have had an "experienced" mainline pilot on the air being interviewed by Wolf Blitzer commenting on the lack of experience and lack of competancy in the flight deck.

"...who the hell is Wolf"