Near Collision At SeaTac
07-31-2008, 06:37 PM
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Near Collision At SeaTac
What was not in this article, but orally reported on tonight, was that Air Tran "self reported" the incident. However, Northwest said it had no idea what anybody else is talking about! How can it not know something like this? Is that possible? And why did Air Tran have to self report? Isn't the tower looking and can see how close they were? Hmmmm.
Near-collision reported on Sea-Tac runway | Top Stories | KING5.com | News for Seattle, Washington
Near-collision reported on Sea-Tac runway | Top Stories | KING5.com | News for Seattle, Washington
07-31-2008, 06:58 PM
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Not surprised this happened up there, its so close and everyone that takes those highspeeds need to pay attention cause the parallel comes real quick... Glad nothing tragic happened in the end, but anyone who flies or has flown in there and had to take a highspeed cause someone is right up their @$$ and then hold short while its raining can vouge. I bet the pucker factor on the ait tran flight was pretty high 
07-31-2008, 08:12 PM
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Not surprised this happened up there, its so close and everyone that takes those highspeeds need to pay attention cause the parallel comes real quick... Glad nothing tragic happened in the end, but anyone who flies or has flown in there and had to take a highspeed cause someone is right up their @$$ and then hold short while its raining can vouge. I bet the pucker factor on the ait tran flight was pretty high
I know excatly what your talking about at SEA. But you think the pucker factor was high for airtran imagine the pucker factor for the A330 crew trying to pull 200 tones of airplane off the runway early. (If infact it they had to)
08-01-2008, 05:17 AM
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Thats what i was thinkin bout too, but i read into the 400 ft as over the top so maybe they just went on their way and didnt report it because maybe they didnt see it as a big deal or tried not to do paperwork and enjoy their vacation where ever they were headed... but scary @#!% eh!?
08-01-2008, 07:27 AM
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AirTran's crew probably reported it in the form of an ASAP report. If they thought they were going to get violated for it, it was the only chance they had to not be. There is always a chance that the ASAP board could deny the report and that can leave the crew hanging out to dry. The amount of departures and and takeoffs going on at Seatac can get busy and tower can miss when aircraft do things. Most of the time when your holding short of 16L, right as the aircraft departing 16L passes overhead they clear you to cross. They may have just thought airtran was fast. Or in the case of Low Vis ops it can be hard to see.
Its kind of a guessing game but in 2 years of flying in and out of SEA I had to hit the brakes on 2 diffrent occasions when a captain thought the tower had cleared us to cross and it hadn't.
Its kind of a guessing game but in 2 years of flying in and out of SEA I had to hit the brakes on 2 diffrent occasions when a captain thought the tower had cleared us to cross and it hadn't.
