Near Collision on Ground at Midway

[Turtle21]

Almost 100 yards laterally on the ground. Doesn't sound that close, sure its close enough to get your pucker up for a moment, but it sure wasn't I could see the color of his eyes kind of stuff".

Either way, it was good the FO saw it and reacted.

Its good its was 1200 RVR

 

[Ralph Wiggums]

If he had time to say, "Hey skipper, they failed to tell us to hold short of the runway....

You have clearly never landed at Midway.

 

[Jim Smyth]

http://www.myfoxtwincities.com/dpp/news/southwest-near-collision-chicago-midway-jan-11-2012

Why is this just released today?

It wasnt released till today because it isnt news. Obviously news was slow and they were looking for some issue to blow out of proportion. When you get into the big leagues you always clear both sides prior to crossing any runway, every time! It doesnt happen very often that ATC makes mistakes like this but they are human like we are.

 

[be-400xpdriver]

the good news is this must be the last model of the 737, what could possibly come after "the max."

737-wtf

 

[Whataburger]

Nice pic Ralph. I am not a Chicago fan, but I always thought that view would make a nice pic.

The Miracle square Mile.

 

[igneousy2]

the good news is this must be the last model of the 737, what could possibly come after "the max."

737-still!

 

[tankerhead]

Is SuperMax taken already? Sounds familiar for some reason...

 

[Flying-Corporal]

That's what happens when you taxi at 50kts at an airport that has a lot of crossing runways.

 

[DrewBlows]

I haven't been to MDW in at least a few months but I've had controllers there give me non-standard instructions when crossing runways. They have cleared us to cross two runways at once and told us to hold short of 22L without telling us to cross 22R. Neither would have created an issue but the non-standard instructions were odd.

 

[Captain Fulough]

I've been based in MDW for 9 years and I can't remember seeing anyone taking off on 31R during that time. 31C all the time and 31L occasionally for corporate or smaller.

MDW controllers do a great job moving a/c here safely and efficiently. Looks like they screwed this one up but thankfully the crew visually cleared the runway before attempting to cross. After landing is a busy time for a SWA FO and this one did a great job to prevent an accident. Thank You!

 

[dragontamer]

If he had to, quote "yell", he should have just hit the brakes.

From the right seat, If I see a conflict, I'm immediately and forcefully doing exactly what this FO did, "STOP!" while moving my feet up to the brakes in case it doesn't immediately happen. But if you want to play Monday morning QB this is Flightinfo.........

 

[igneousy2]

From the right seat, If I see a conflict, I'm immediately and forcefully doing exactly what this FO did, "STOP!" while moving my feet up to the brakes in case it doesn't immediately happen. But if you want to play Monday morning QB this is Flightinfo.........

yea, what he said!

 

[redflyer65]

From the right seat, If I see a conflict, I'm immediately and forcefully doing exactly what this FO did, "STOP!" while moving my feet up to the brakes in case it doesn't immediately happen. But if you want to play Monday morning QB this is Flightinfo.........

That's pretty much exactly what happened. The FO was all over it, and the CA trusted him and applied full brake (before the FO could get to it).

Excellent job.

 

[nwaf16dude]

Nice job avoiding a bad one... However, I would say that all the extra comm afterwards was a waste of time and a potential source of further error. Just say "please mark the tapes" and call them when you aren't driving an airplane anymore.