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Southwest flight slides off runway
A southwest flight landing in Omaha has slid of the runway after landing bringing the airport to a screeching halt. All the passengers and crew are safe and being taken care of. (www.wfaa.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Again!
how many times have you read this in an article about an airline mishap?
arriving from las vegas
gotta be the water.
what happens in vegas, yeah, sure.
arriving from las vegas
gotta be the water.
what happens in vegas, yeah, sure.
Omaha resident here, albeit not involved in aviation nor airport ops. That weather, while it had been forecast to happen that afternoon, came up in a hurry. I had to drive across town at 1230, and the roads were wet but not slick. By 1400, there was almost 1/4" of ice on every exposed horizontal surface.
My guess — and that's all it is — is that conditions deteriorated quickly enough that the maintenance crews didn't have time to get ahead of the problem. If so, maybe they should have closed the airport before landing that flight, although all the nearby airports were having the same problem, so diverting the flight might not have been easy...I don't know. But I sure wouldn't call it pilot error.
Bottom line is that nobody was hurt, and it sounds like the aircraft didn't even take a whole lot of damage.
My guess — and that's all it is — is that conditions deteriorated quickly enough that the maintenance crews didn't have time to get ahead of the problem. If so, maybe they should have closed the airport before landing that flight, although all the nearby airports were having the same problem, so diverting the flight might not have been easy...I don't know. But I sure wouldn't call it pilot error.
Bottom line is that nobody was hurt, and it sounds like the aircraft didn't even take a whole lot of damage.
Been doing this for over 50 years, taxing in to Buf one night, down hill ramp, had to put that 737 in to full reverse to keep from going into terminal. Do this job long enough, it can happen to you. Hope not
You have to know how to drive and taxi on ice. The main thing is to take it easy. The hard part landing was over with.This Pilot got shot after the war was over. He got complacent. The Midway accident was entirely different. 6500’ vs. 9000’. Also that was busy Chicago not out in the country like Omaha.
Such an ignorant comment. Omaha is the biggest city in the area, next to Kansas City, sports a huge AFB, and again, given the length of the runway, braking action no the runway, visibility, the METAR and the ATIS info, and the LiveATC recording (which is sure as hell obvious that you didn't listen to), you don't know what you're talking about. And yet you accuse Mary of the same thing you're doing?
Pot. Kettle. Black. Just stop.
Pot. Kettle. Black. Just stop.