jetblueguy22 From United States of America, joined Nov 2007, 2021 posts, RR: 1 Posted (3 months ago) and read 9034 times:
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Just saw this pop up on twitter http://www.newsnet5.com/dpp/news/loc...land-Hopkins-International-Airport
Luckily looks like it is no big deal and everybody is safe with no injuries. That is always a good thing! I wonder if there is any substantial damage? The METAR in CLE isn't looking too nice right now, but nothing major.
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jetblueguy22 From United States of America, joined Nov 2007, 2021 posts, RR: 1 Reply 2, posted (3 months ago) and read 8983 times:
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I don't know, but looking at Flightaware the most recent UA 737 to arrive was 1639 from FLL about an hour ago. I'm not sure if that is it or not but I am assuming so.
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jetblueguy22 From United States of America, joined Nov 2007, 2021 posts, RR: 1 Reply 5, posted (2 months 4 weeks 1 day 23 hours ago) and read 8679 times:
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Quoting cle757 (Reply 4): It slid off a taxiway...not a runway!
You just have to love journalism. As long as you have the airport right it doesn't matter what you write! Good to hear it was only a taxiway though. Sliding off the runway is a little more serious..
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Looks to have been N24729. It's been a really bad day ice wise in northeast Ohio. I went out to my car this morning to find 1/8in of ice over it. Made for a lot of fun driving in those empty parking lots though...
Pensacolaguy From United States of America, joined Sep 2004, 535 posts, RR: 1 Reply 7, posted (2 months 4 weeks 1 day 22 hours ago) and read 8414 times:
Highflier92660 From United States of America, joined Apr 2004, 593 posts, RR: 0 Reply 8, posted (2 months 4 weeks 1 day 22 hours ago) and read 8296 times:
Looks like the 737-700 exited runway 6L around the Bravo high-speed and ended up in the snow. Fortunately nothing lost beyond a couple of bruised egos up in the cockpit.
n797mx From United States of America, joined Mar 2009, 96 posts, RR: 0 Reply 9, posted (2 months 4 weeks 1 day 19 hours ago) and read 7799 times:
Quoting Highflier92660 (Reply 8): Looks like the 737-700 exited runway 6L around the Bravo high-speed and ended up in the snow.
From what I posted they were actually at low speed. Their was almost no traction anywhere this morning so I'm not really surprised it went as far off as it did with such low speed.
Halophila From United States of America, joined Aug 2005, 623 posts, RR: 2 Reply 10, posted (2 months 4 weeks 1 day 12 hours ago) and read 5112 times:
This clearly shows that both united and the 737 are highly dangerous aircraft, and that CLE is a dangerous place to fly through.
J/k. Saw this from a landing flight today- glad everything is fine. Though have to say its a bit weird seeing a bird with its tail in the air surrounded by fire trucks when you're landing.
And yes very slippery... I almost went flat on my backside walking on the Tarmac...
freeze3192 From United States of America, joined Oct 2006, 125 posts, RR: 0 Reply 11, posted (2 months 4 weeks 1 day 10 hours ago) and read 4495 times:
Yes it does look slick. If you look at the photos provided by fox8, the window shot from the US E170 clearly shows that the taxiways had 1/4 clutter of slush, water, and patchy ice. Often times airports do a great job on the runways, but neglect the taxiways. You can slow to a reasonable taxi speed, take the high speed turnoff and its off to the races. I landed ORD 28 several years back in a moderate snowfall, slowed to a crawl to make the 90 turnoff at F, and had the tail weathervane and start spinning like a car. I got lucky and saved it only by releasing the brakes, turning the tiller into it, and cobbing the power to get her going straight. It happens quick and you have very little room to work with.
Speedbird128 From Germany, joined Oct 2003, 1136 posts, RR: 2 Reply 14, posted (2 months 4 weeks 3 hours ago) and read 1097 times:
Quoting 727forever (Reply 12): Often times airports do a great job on the runways, but neglect the taxiways.
So many reports of icy taxiways and planes sliding off...
At the airport where I control, our de-icing crews are busy with taxiways when they're not on the runway... In all my years I haven't had an aircraft slide off....
Its just logical if a runway needs snow/ice removal then so do taxiways...
727forever From United States of America, joined Jan 2006, 783 posts, RR: 5 Reply 16, posted (2 months 3 weeks 6 days 22 hours ago) and read 890 times:
Quoting Speedbird128 (Reply 14): At the airport where I control, our de-icing crews are busy with taxiways when they're not on the runway... In all my years I haven't had an aircraft slide off....
Notice I said often, not always. It seems that at airports with multiple runways when the precip is really coming down it is all they can do to keep the runways operational at the expense of the taxiways, though not always. I generally taxi at a snails pace when the surface is slick as the tiny tires just don't have the grip.
My point was there seem to be a number of these incidents every winter. Surely at some point (i know, its a stretch of the imagination ) somebody will service taxiways better to avoid this happening.
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