Newark NJ : 757 lands on Taxiway

airboatr · Post by **airboatr** » 04 Nov 2006, 04:05

:k: wow can't Imagine what the Pilots were thinking
, then again maybe that was the problem

http://home.bellsouth.net/s/editorial.d ... blsadstrgt

Post by **Garry Russell** » 04 Nov 2006, 08:42

There was a BA Jumbo a few years ago that was nicely lined up to land on the A4

The error was spotted in time

Garry

TobyV · Post by **TobyV** » 04 Nov 2006, 09:36

A Tu-154 was landed on a taxiway parallel to the intended runway somewhere in the CIS block not so long ago for no particularly good reason

jonesey2k · Post by **jonesey2k** » 04 Nov 2006, 10:32

Nuts!

airboatr · Post by **airboatr** » 04 Nov 2006, 13:29

how about the 4 messups at Seattle ?
or was it three times in 4 years ???? :doho:

AllanL · Post by **AllanL** » 04 Nov 2006, 14:30

airboatr wrote:how about the 4 messups at Seattle ?
or was it three times in 4 years ???? :doho:

Would those three be fs2000, cfs3 and fsx ??? :roll:

airboatr · Post by **airboatr** » 05 Nov 2006, 00:15

AllanL wrote:
airboatr wrote:how about the 4 messups at Seattle ?
or was it three times in 4 years ???? :doho:
Would those three be fs2000, cfs3 and fsx ??? :roll:

that wasa good one

ivanT3 · Post by **ivanT3** » 10 Nov 2006, 22:32

Yikes indeed!! It seem there was a cross wind on 22 {L?R?, not sure which was being used.}. In this case, I suppose they send you around for a visual on 29. There is no ILS for 29. One would THINK you could see the difference between a RWY and a taxi way but, as I understand it,the sun was going down and right in their eye's.

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Considering all that, I guess I can see how such a thing could occur. However, upon further inspection of the chart, How in the world could one not see the mistake at minimums??. I read somewhere that the Taxi way had a green light down the center but no Blue side lights. Also, the RWY is typical in it's side and center lighting but the VASI is on the Right? Not left?.

All in all, they were very lucky indeed. I feel for those guy's. I guess it could happen to anyone. Here is the link to a chart we can look at. It really makes ya wonder.

http://www.airnav.com/airport/KEWR

Ivan.........

ianhind · Post by **ianhind** » 10 Nov 2006, 22:50

The original article said 22L. Whatever, that's quite a change in direction from 22 to 29.

I recall at Heathrow hearing requests by the tower to change from 28L to 28R or vice versa fairly late in the approach, but at least they are parallel runways.

I suppose it depends how late the change of runway decision was, etc.

Just be happy that there were no fatalities and it can be sorted so it doesn't happen again.