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VIDEO: China Airlines Touches Down In Grass at O'Hare
On June 21, 2018 a China Airlines cargo flight, CI5148, performed a go-around after touching down in the grass during an attempted landing on runway 10L at Chicago-O'Hare International Airport. Weather at the time of the incident included light rain, with 500 foot ceilings and visibility of three statute miles. I don't get it either. Following China Airlines' deviation the runway was closed for approximately 50 minutes, as a runway inspection identified debris that needed to be… (www.youtube.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Wow - looks like that was very close to turning out really badly.
there is a localizer and ils on each of o'hare's runways, so this can only happen when the pilots don't use the available equipment. The current conditions were instrument landing conditions and this is an unusual outcome, given 500 feet and three miles. What was going on in that cockpit???
Sounds so similar to the Korean SFO crash. Bet the problem lay in the cockpit. Copy and paste the Korean NTSB report....
The incident with Air Canada lined up for landing on the taxiway at SFO is somewhat understandable especially at night. But here in daylight and 3 miles visibility, these guys seem to be lacking in training to put it in a nice way.
We live 3nm from the airport at Clark (CRK) in the Philippines. Air China is over here once or twice every month shooting touch and go training flights. I guess they must be putting a lot of new, low hour crews in the air around the world these days. Not good and they are just accidents waiting to happen. Guess I had better not say any more...
We live 3nm from the airport at Clark (CRK) in the Philippines. Air China is over here once or twice every month shooting touch and go training flights. I guess they must be putting a lot of new, low hour crews in the air around the world these days. Not good and they are just accidents waiting to happen. Guess I had better not say any more...
Note that China Airlines and Air China are two separate airlines. Which one are you talking about?
Sum Ting Wong.