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Air Canada approached taxiway at SFO

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,346 ✭✭✭✭smurfjed


    That's not quite what happened, far from. A balked landing is when the aircraft touches down and then lifts off again. This aircraft, whilst coming close, did not touch the ground and he wouldn't have even been in the flare stage at 60ft AGL.
    The following is taken from Skybrary...
    In most cases, a missed approach is begun at or before the applicable DA or MDA for the approach being flown. Because any later decision to go around must have followed an earlier positive decision by PF to continue to a landing, it is often described as a rejected landing or a baulked landing, although neither term has any formal definition. It may or may not involve at least part of the landing gear contacting the runway and in extreme cases, touchdown may have occurred on all main landing gear units.
    So the aircraft doesn't have to touch the ground.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,479 ✭✭✭plodder


    Some other interesting points
    - Aircraft was lined up for taxiway C for approx. 3nm, would this have been caught if there were two controllers?
    It's not clear if the controllers' ASDE-X/ASSC system is able to detect that. I don't really understand this business with the aircraft disappearing off it altogether for 12 seconds either


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 783 ✭✭✭nsa0bupkd3948x


    The Federal Aviation Administration will now require pilots landing at night to do an instrument landing, using the runway’s advanced guidance systems, when a parallel runway is closed. In addition, two air traffic controllers must be on duty through the late-night arrival rush, said Ian Gregor, an FAA spokesman.

    Looks like they're implementing some changes in LAX as a result.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,846 ✭✭✭Comhrá


    It's great to see new safety implementation as a result of an event where no-one had to die or suffer injury. Even the aircraft was unharmed.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,005 ✭✭✭✭AlekSmart


    Comhra wrote: »
    It's great to see new safety implementation as a result of an event where no-one had to die or suffer injury. Even the aircraft was unharmed.

    The one BIG thing that the Avation sector has managed to cling to,is it's willingness to study,evaluate and act upon the results of investigations into incidents.

    If only the motoring sector could be ncouraged to do the same it would be a huge step forward.

    Take,for example,recent major road traffic incidents,all of which were subject to road closures to facilitate forensic investigation.

    Not a single element of these Investigations will ever find it's way into the Public Domain,whereas great benefits could be gained by not alone making the results public,but also highlighting any measures taken to address whatever causitive factors are identified.

    The avation sector remains far head of the rest of the world in this important issue.


    Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.

    Charles Mackay (1812-1889)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,591 ✭✭✭circular flexing


    AlekSmart wrote: »
    The one BIG thing that the Avation sector has managed to cling to,is it's willingness to study,evaluate and act upon the results of investigations into incidents.

    There are many, many examples where this wasn't the case - the Concorde accident in 2000 springs to mind as being a good example of where inaction led to a serious incident.


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