UA787DEN From United States of America, joined Dec 2012, 291 posts, RR: 0 Reply 1, posted (4 months 3 weeks 2 days 6 hours ago) and read 8434 times:
Its been an interesting day, few days, week, and year for planes having trouble staying on the massive slabs of pavement with all the yellow and white lines and lights.
jetblueguy22 From United States of America, joined Nov 2007, 2021 posts, RR: 1 Reply 2, posted (4 months 3 weeks 2 days 6 hours ago) and read 8422 times:
Considering the weather the northeast has been getting today I would have to say this event is not unexpected. I'm surprised the flight even left. The roads here in NW Connecticut are horrendous right now.
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UA787DEN From United States of America, joined Dec 2012, 291 posts, RR: 0 Reply 3, posted (4 months 3 weeks 2 days 6 hours ago) and read 8382 times:
Oh I'm not surprised. Just seems like its been an unusually interesting week. I wonder if they were playing drag racers like the WN pilots that went of the Taxiway in DEN? :p
bexf27 From United States of America, joined Feb 2011, 29 posts, RR: 0 Reply 4, posted (4 months 3 weeks 2 days 6 hours ago) and read 8358 times:
It has been bad here in New Hampshire too. Maybe the pilot should have stayed at the airport instead of going on the roads from the airport. Then the pax and crew would not have been bused back to the airport.
mesaflyguy From United States of America, joined Dec 2012, 711 posts, RR: 1 Reply 5, posted (4 months 3 weeks 2 days 5 hours ago) and read 8252 times:
The northeast has been getting slammed on and off with bad weather these last few weeks. I'm truly not surprised and hope that the aircraft didn't sustain too much damage, which, if it just hit a snowbank, I can't imagine it did. Little chance of FOD in theengines, which is one of the nice things about RJs.
UA787DEN From United States of America, joined Dec 2012, 291 posts, RR: 0 Reply 7, posted (4 months 3 weeks 2 days 5 hours ago) and read 8229 times:
The article says 66 pax. That is one full CR7. IIRC, that is the capacity of the Gojet UX CR7s. Maybe the article put in the Max capacity to help non a-nutters get a feel for the aircraft size.
Jerseyguy From United States of America, joined Oct 2005, 1108 posts, RR: 0 Reply 8, posted (4 months 3 weeks 2 days 4 hours ago) and read 8062 times:
UA787,
It could be a full flight with people flying home from their Xmas trips plus people from earlier canceled flights. Also before I forget must have been a former WN pilot because as you know they taxi too fast and are dangerous
PWMRamper From United States of America, joined Jul 2009, 574 posts, RR: 3 Reply 9, posted (4 months 3 weeks 2 days 1 hour ago) and read 7838 times:
Ah N165GJ. Such fond memories of working that aircraft in PWM. T'was involved in a lot of firsts for me. First aircraft ever worked as a ramper, first pushback, etc.
atrude777 From United States of America, joined Aug 2003, 5613 posts, RR: 54 Reply 11, posted (4 months 3 weeks 1 day 22 hours ago) and read 7155 times:
This must be fake..only WN Planes go off the runway or taxiways don't you know?
In my experience G7 Pilots taxi fast a lot so it was bound to happen, we need to investigate what they were doing the night before that would cause them to do this!
*Sarcasm noted, actually said by a.net members about WN, sounds ridiculous now doesn't it?*
In all seriousness, glad everyone seems to be ok, looks like a minor slip which happens to EVERY AIRLINE and plane and pilots.
Quoting Reply 10): Well, The ALB paper added four more passengers:
Technically, it's still 66 passengers, plus the 4 crew members which would equal 70. 66 Paxs, 2 Pilots and 2 F/A's.
The 66 passengers and four crew members were sent back to the airport by bus.
UA787DEN From United States of America, joined Dec 2012, 291 posts, RR: 0 Reply 12, posted (4 months 3 weeks 1 day 20 hours ago) and read 6392 times:
Pfft. WN coming and taking a GoJet CR7, adding 4 seats, and going right off the taxiway. Maybe bussing pax is a new Low Cost strategy? WN: I'm watching you.
So it sounds like it was a full flight, most likely due to Christmas. Thankfully, the "crash" doesn't sound bad.
kstateinALB From United States of America, joined Dec 2006, 732 posts, RR: 0 Reply 13, posted (4 months 3 weeks 1 day 17 hours ago) and read 4709 times:
Eh, the weather in ALB was average yesterday due to the snowstorm. Wasn't as bad as Wednesday night/Thursday when I flew in, which I was lucky to do so. It was pretty slick though, so not surprised by this.
JBirdAV8r From United States of America, joined Jun 2001, 4459 posts, RR: 22 Reply 14, posted (4 months 3 weeks 1 day 16 hours ago) and read 4292 times:
Quoting UA787DEN (Reply 1): Its been an interesting day, few days, week, and year for planes having trouble staying on the massive slabs of pavement with all the yellow and white lines and lights.
Hoping that's sarcasm. Taxiing an aircraft in wintry conditions that's not designed to "drive" well on the ground, which has tires that aren't designed for maximum grip at taxi speeds, on surfaces that are either untreated or not treated in the "conventional" sense (not to mention not designed like roads), can be like trying to walk across a sheet of ice in tennis shoes. Not fun.
Goldenshield From United States of America, joined Jan 2001, 5437 posts, RR: 12 Reply 15, posted (4 months 3 weeks 1 day 16 hours ago) and read 4179 times:
Quoting Jerseyguy (Reply 8): Also before I forget must have been a former WN pilot because as you know they taxi too fast and are dangerous
Quoting atrude777 (Reply 11): This must be fake..only WN Planes go off the runway or taxiways don't you know?
No, that's not the case. They're pilots who just so happen to work for a regional airline, so they're inherently unexperienced and unsafe.
[Edited 2012-12-30 11:16:40]
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USAirALB From United States of America, joined Sep 2007, 2681 posts, RR: 1 Reply 16, posted (4 months 3 weeks 1 day 8 hours ago) and read 1544 times:
Not surprising. Relatives said they got another 3 inches over the weekend, in addition to the foot or so last week. This whole thing could have gone much worse. Runway 1/19(which I'm assuming this flight was using) goes right up to major, heavily travelled roads, Troy Schenectady Road to the north, and Albany Shaker Road to the south.
USAirALB From United States of America, joined Sep 2007, 2681 posts, RR: 1 Reply 18, posted (4 months 3 weeks 1 day 5 hours ago) and read 1033 times:
Quoting UA787DEN (Reply 17): Have there been any problems with the road being right next to 1/19?
They are two different separate roads at each end of the runway. Years ago (in the 50s), an AA plane crashed onto Troy-Schenectady Road at the north end of 1/19. That's the only incident I can think of.
A couple of years ago, they extended 1/19 even closer to Troy-Schenectady Road by about 1300 ft or so. They added an EMAS at this time as well.
GoBoeing From United States of America, joined Jun 2000, 2630 posts, RR: 12 Reply 19, posted (4 months 3 weeks 1 day 5 hours ago) and read 999 times:
Quoting UA787DEN (Reply 1): Its been an interesting day, few days, week, and year for planes having trouble staying on the massive slabs of pavement with all the yellow and white lines and lights.
If you could ditch the condescending, arrogant attitude, I'd love to have you on the jumpseat sometime. Two weeks ago for instance, turning off of runway 22 at LGA onto the parallel. First landing in five weeks, wind 270/25G35, night, driving rain, traffic close behind, and my side view window all scratched up with barely any lighting to my left in the dark with hangar lights and a nearby pickup truck waiting for us to move, adding just a bit more glare that we didn't need.
mesaflyguy From United States of America, joined Dec 2012, 711 posts, RR: 1 Reply 20, posted (4 months 3 weeks 1 day 4 hours ago) and read 956 times:
I really don't want to get too far involved in the "pilots should know how to keep their planes on the taxiway" argument, but I do feel this needs to be said:
Never criticize ir soeculate before you've been incthe position yourself. I am planning on training to be a pilot (when I go to college in a few years ) so I can't wait to see what I learn. Many things seem so much simpler than they are, and I am waiting to see what I experience when (if) I am sitting up front.
As GoBoeing said, this stuff isn't as simple and easy as it seems from the outside. Plus, this GoJet (I'm not even getting into the WN argument....) was in bad weather. Had this been on a sunny day, it PROBABLY wouldn't have happened.
I just suggest we stay on topic and try not to demean or label people for things that are just not true.
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