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JAL runway incursion nearly causes crash
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Hash: SHA1 [ Looks like JAL has some explaining to do. -Ed. ] http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/newse/20050301wo26.htm Daily Yomiuri On-Line JAL plane nearly caused runway crash Yomiuri Shimbun A Japan Airlines aircraft attempted to take off without approval from air traffic control at Hokkaido's New Chitose Airport in January, an incident that could have caused a rear-end collision on a runway, The Yomiuri Shimbun learned Monday. JAL apparently then failed to report the incident to the Construction and Transport Ministry. Disaster was narrowly avoided by the two commercial airplanes involved, which were carrying more than 300 passengers, as an air traffic controller noticed on radar that the JAL plane was moving ahead and ordered it to stop, according to sources. The incident occurred in poor weather conditions of snow at night at about 9:16 p.m. on Jan. 22. The JAL flight 1036--a Boeing 777 bound for Haneda Airport with 201 passengers on board--was ordered to move to the runway and wait, the sources said. But on its arrival, the pilot began to accelerate and initiate pre-take off maneuvers. At the time, one of the airport's two three-kilometer runways was not in use as workers were removing snow from it, so airplanes both taking off and landing had to use the same runway. The JAL plane began to increase its speed, even though the All Nippon Airways' flight 1717--an Airbus 320 with 115 on board that had landed about two minutes earlier--was two kilometers ahead, according to the sources. The controller from the Air Self-Defense Force, which directs traffic at the airport, saw the JAL plane's movements on the radar and told it to stop about 10 seconds after it had started down the runway. Although the pilot hit the brakes immediately, the aircraft skidded about one-third the distance of the runway to merely one kilometer behind the ANA plane, according to the sources. If the order had been made just a few seconds later, there could have been a collision. The JAL aircraft followed the controller's orders and left the runway, they said, adding that the plane took off about 10 minutes later. Under the Civil Aeronautics Law, such cases could be considered a significant incident and next to an accident in terms of severity. The law stipulates a pilot must compile a report under such circumstances to be handed to the government. JAL admitted the pilot's mistake and made an apology to the SDF, but failed to report the incident to the government. The ministry Monday admonished JAL, saying it took such incidents very seriously as it could have led to a major disaster, but was not reported. JAL admitted the pilot had overlooked the fact that the flight had not been approved to take off because he was busy ensuring the plane was ready to leave the airstrip. But the company also said it did not consider the case a significant incident under the law because the pilot thought the ANA plane already had left the runway and did not see any danger in taking off. An expert with in-depth knowledge of New Chitose Airport said the incident could have caused a collision if the controller had not ordered it to stop. "The airplane didn't brake well in snow. If the pilot couldn't tell where the other plane was on the runway, it would make the incident more serious," he said. BL. - -- Brad Littlejohn | Email: Unix Systems Administrator, | Web + NewsMaster, BOFH.. Smeghead! | http://www.sbcglobal.net/~tyketto PGP: 1024D/E319F0BF 6980 AAD6 7329 E9E6 D569 F620 C819 199A E319 F0BF -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCJMMqyBkZmuMZ8L8RAgdTAKCQED/d5e7aL2CSD1a5MPPfrSrOgwCfWKcb l/yc2kDFZ1qwkohA17wsKbc= =Ruu4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- |
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