RE: Worst accident in aviation history narrowly averted
July 12, 2017 at 12:07 am
(This post was last modified: July 12, 2017 at 12:11 am by Anomalocaris.)
how good was the visibility? If a pilot coming in to land on. Taxi way fail to see a runway number indicating the heading of the runway, it ought to be a pretty good indication he is not lined up on a real runway.
There ought to be specific runway lights which indicates to the pilot whether he is on the correct glide slope. It would either be on the wrong side or nor there at all next to any taxiway mistaken for runway. I suspect while the incident sounds hair raising and is far too close to an actual occurrance of this kind of diseased than one might think ought to be possible under the current system, it was still not really close to a plane actually landing on an active taxiway full of planes.
(July 11, 2017 at 11:58 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: Am I correct a localizer would have been in use and if so, why didn't it line up the plane with the runway ? And if that isn't what a localizer is for, maybe planes waiting to take off shouldn't be on a taxiway.
Or the pilot had it switched off, or the copilot saw what was wrong but didn't want to fuck his career by saying something . . . . .
There ought to be specific runway lights which indicates to the pilot whether he is on the correct glide slope. It would either be on the wrong side or nor there at all next to any taxiway mistaken for runway. I suspect while the incident sounds hair raising and is far too close to an actual occurrance of this kind of diseased than one might think ought to be possible under the current system, it was still not really close to a plane actually landing on an active taxiway full of planes.
