Landing on taxiway

KoolKid

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Incident: Alaska B739 at Seattle on Dec 19th 2015, landed on taxiwayBy Simon Hradecky, created Tuesday, Dec 29th 2015 22:40Z, last updated Tuesday, Dec 29th 2015 22:40Z

An Alaska Airlines Boeing 737-900, registrationN477AS performing flight AS-27 from Chicago O'Hare,IL to Seattle,WA (USA), was on an ILS approach to runway 16R cleared to land on runway 16R, when tower offered a visual swing over to runway 16C, the crew opted to accept runway 16C but aligned with taxiway T in between runways 16R and 16C and continued for a safe landing on taxiway T at 08:31L (16:31Z), no other traffic was on taxiway T at that time. Tower, maintaining routine communication, cleared the aircraft to cross runway 16L, the crew read that clearance back after a slight hesitation and maintained routine communication, too.

Alaska Airlines confirmed their flight AS-27 landed on taxiway T on Dec 19th 2015, the occurrence is under investigation, further details can not be told due to the pending investigation.

The FAA reported, the occurrence is being investigated by the FAA. 

afatbollix

Happened in Gatwick a few years ago. I think gatwick can have landing on the taxiway when the main runway is closed.

smurfjed

It happens quite a lot, but its not as embarrassing as landing in the wrong airport!

eatmyshorts

Landed on 16L in Seattle a few days ago. A dirty, wet, grey afternoon. It could be very easy to make that mistake.

smurfjed

Just happened to open AvHerald and saw this......

An Easyjet Airbus A319-100, registration G-EZBY performing flight U2-1847 from Manchester,EN (UK) to Pisa (Italy), was cleared to land on Pisa's active runway 04L but touched down on closed runway 04R at 11:11L (10:11Z). The aircraft rolled out without further incident and taxied to the apron.

The occurrence aircraft is still on the ground in Pisa 4.5 hours after landing and about 4 hours after the scheduled departure of the return flight U2-1848.

Related NOTAM:
B6654/15 - RUNWAY 04R/22L AVBL AS TWY ONLY. RUNWAY 04L/22R AVBL AS RWY IN USE. RMK1:TRAFFIC MAY BE SUBJ DLA RMK2:DRG TAX OPS MAY BE NECESSARY TO CROSS ACTIVE RUNWAY IN ORDER TO PREVENT RWY INCURSION FLW STRICTLY ATC INSTRUCTION.REF AIP AD 2 LIRP 2-1. 23 DEC 15:44 2015 UNTIL 31 JAN 23:59 2016 ESTIMATED. CREATED: 23 DEC 15:44 2015

martinsvi

eatmyshorts wrote: »

Landed on 16L in Seattle a few days ago. A dirty, wet, grey afternoon. It could be very easy to make that mistake.

was this your airline present you were on about? I was hoping they are sending you someplace warm, OZ came to mind

smurfjed

Hey Seattle is an awesome city, Kells Bar located at 1916 Post Alley is my favourite watering hole..... and much cheaper than OZ, so he got a nice present :)

eatmyshorts

smurfjed wrote: »

Hey Seattle is an awesome city, Kells Bar located at 1916 Post Alley is my favourite watering hole..... and much cheaper than OZ, so he got a nice present :)

I'm a regular in Kells! Not a bad pint of Guinness. Few of those then a bite to eat in the Mexican next door.

eatmyshorts

martinsvi wrote: »

was this your airline present you were on about? I was hoping they are sending you someplace warm, OZ came to mind

Never go to Australia. Don't bid for it, and if I get one, I'll swap it.
Flying East is much tougher for jetlag, and I really just don't like the place!

Chris_5339762

afatbollix wrote: »

Happened in Gatwick a few years ago. I think gatwick can have landing on the taxiway when the main runway is closed.

Gatwicks taxiway is basically a runway, so they can get away with it!

(They can't use both 'runways' as they are too close together)

keith16

eatmyshorts wrote: »

Landed on 16L in Seattle a few days ago. A dirty, wet, grey afternoon. It could be very easy to make that mistake.

Isn't the runway a lot wider than the taxiway? Like, wouldn't it be obvious that it's not the runway?

eatmyshorts

keith16 wrote: »

Isn't the runway a lot wider than the taxiway? Like, wouldn't it be obvious that it's not the runway?

There's not a lot of difference actually.

http://goo.gl/maps/F8GM3kdEqdH2

keith16

eatmyshorts wrote: »

There's not a lot of difference actually.

http://goo.gl/maps/F8GM3kdEqdH2

But do you know what I'm getting at, I get there is not a lot of difference, but surely that only applies to the untrained eye?

KoolKid

Would ILS not be screaming warnings at you.?

BonkeyDonker

KoolKid wrote: »

Would ILS not be screaming warnings at you.?

alot of american approaches are visual as you can get more usage that way. Also as this was a late switchas well it would hev been visual so on electronic warnings.

EchoIndia

afatbollix wrote: »

Happened in Gatwick a few years ago. I think gatwick can have landing on the taxiway when the main runway is closed.

It was a few years ago all right...1988!
https://assets.digital.cabinet-office.gov.uk/media/5422fa73e5274a13170007ed/2-1989_G-AYWB_and_EI-BIZ.pdf

Easyjet landed on the wrong runway in Pisa today, a closed one at that.

http://avherald.com/h?article=49196d15&opt=0

EchoIndia

In Pisa 04R is the main runway and 04L is narrower and, I think, more often used as a taxiway. Pisa is the Italian AF's principal transport base, so the availability of a parallel taxiway as a reserve runway is possibly a military requirement to ensure that the base can less easily be put out of action.

Shannon757

Easy mistake, 4th time it's happened in Seattle.

irishgeo

Shannon757 wrote: »

Easy mistake, 4th time it's happened in Seattle.

would the huge amount of tire marks not be a giveaway?

KoolKid

Or the landing lights on the approach??

eatmyshorts

smurfjed wrote: »

Hey Seattle is an awesome city, Kells Bar located at 1916 Post Alley is my favourite watering hole..... and much cheaper than OZ, so he got a nice present :)

On the way there now for a few pints!
Another soft day here.

Gaoth Laidir

irishgeo wrote: »

would the huge amount of tire marks not be a giveaway?

I'd say on a durty wet dark dank day those tyre marks would blend in with a wet runway.