Ual777contrail From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Posted (10 years 8 months 11 hours ago) and read 1727 times:
I saw a plane yesterday in COS land on the taxiway.
I'm not familiar with small commercial aircraft but it looked like a piper.
my question is this,
1) does this happen often?
2)what will happen to the pilot?
I know those are stupid questions, this was unreal. We heard the tower say to the pilot "nxxxx you just landed on the taxiway, proceed to the jetcenter." that was it, will he get in trouble?
Backfire From Germany, joined Oct 2006, 0 posts, RR: 0 Reply 1, posted (10 years 8 months 11 hours ago) and read 1691 times:
If you end up on the taxiway then there's been a pretty sizeable cock-up somewhere along the line. At the end of the day the tower expects you to be on the runway, and it's the runway which is kept clear for landing -- not the taxiway, which could be in use by all sorts of other traffic.
There's bound to be an investigation and whether the pilot gets in trouble or not will depend on whose fault it is.
I can't speak for private aviation but it's not completely unheard-of even at commercial level. Look at the China Airlines A340 in Anchorage and other recent occurrences.
LN-MOW From United States of America, joined Jan 2000, 1896 posts, RR: 15 Reply 2, posted (10 years 8 months 9 hours ago) and read 1615 times:
In exceptional cases, a taxiway may be used as runway .. e.g. in case of the runway being obstructed or being worked on. This MAY have been the case, he may have been cleared to land there.
AA61hvy From United States of America, joined Nov 1999, 13975 posts, RR: 59 Reply 3, posted (10 years 8 months 8 hours ago) and read 1613 times:
i dont know how you can get a taxi way and rwy confused one has numbers and white markings one doesnt have that. the rwy is usually wider too....whats with the china a340 in anc?
Avi From Israel, joined Sep 2001, 922 posts, RR: 6 Reply 4, posted (10 years 8 months 8 hours ago) and read 1607 times:
whats with the china a340 in anc?
When it got a take-off clearance it was suppose to turn right into the runway and take-off. Instead it just started to accelerate for take off on a taxiway parallel to another runway.
It was about a second away from crashing.
Ual777contrail From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 5, posted (10 years 8 months 7 hours ago) and read 1548 times:
This was a time of day that there really wasn't any traffic, we listen to tower communication in ops. He was cleared for the runway right in front of the airforce base. He then landed on taxiway golf.
one more question, can a taxiway handle a widebody landing on it?
Je89_w From United States of America, joined Mar 2002, 2327 posts, RR: 10 Reply 7, posted (10 years 8 months 3 hours ago) and read 1427 times:
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A delivery aircraft of Shanghai Airlines 737-800 took of from Honolulu either with the wind, or on a taxiway. I couldent see because HNL Airport's "junk" was blocking. All other aircraft departed on 08R, 08L - small aircraft on 04R, 04L. Instead this 738 lifted off with the wind. The wind was blowing from the Northeast, it lifted off Southwest. Funny.
United777 From United States of America, joined May 1999, 1648 posts, RR: 1 Reply 8, posted (10 years 8 months 3 hours ago) and read 1417 times:
The other week a Jet Airways Boeing 737-700 in India landed in Pune on a taxiway parrell to the runway. The pilot did not know what happened until he got to the terminal. The same aircarft took-off a few hours later on the return flight to Mumbai with no damage.
PW100 From Netherlands, joined Jan 2002, 1983 posts, RR: 10 Reply 10, posted (10 years 8 months 1 hour ago) and read 1366 times:
I'm pretty sure that it's a routine thing for small aircraft like Cessna's and Pipers to land at [designated] taxiways.
In the seventies, when DFW had only two main north-south runways [17R/35L, and 17L/35R], the third north-south runway [18R/36L] was the inner western taxiway! I presume that it was limited to turboprops only, since it was only 4000ft or so.
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IMissPiedmont From United States of America, joined May 2001, 6203 posts, RR: 43 Reply 11, posted (10 years 7 months 4 weeks 1 day 19 hours ago) and read 1296 times:
AeroMexico used to tear up the taxiway at TUS on a regular basis. It happened at least three times, that I know of, in the last 10 years that they flew here.
A DC-9 makes quite interesting ruts when it lands on a taxiway.
What is it with all the "is there a possibilty airline X will.." threads? The answer it'll is possible.
AA61hvy From United States of America, joined Nov 1999, 13975 posts, RR: 59 Reply 12, posted (10 years 7 months 4 weeks 1 day 18 hours ago) and read 1255 times:
so i guess the taxiways are much thinner than the runways?
Jhooper From United States of America, joined Dec 2001, 6195 posts, RR: 13 Reply 13, posted (10 years 7 months 4 weeks 1 day 15 hours ago) and read 1200 times:
Before they built RWY 16R/34L at Fort Worth Alliance Airport, they used taxiway B for landings quite often. They cleared me to land on this taxiway on more than one occasion.
Last year 1,944 New Yorkers saw something and said something.
L-188 From United States of America, joined Jul 1999, 29350 posts, RR: 62 Reply 14, posted (10 years 7 months 4 weeks 1 day 15 hours ago) and read 1180 times:
It was an A-340 Dimitry.
I was working that night down in South Airpark but didn't hear about it until they talked about it on the news the next night.
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AirNewZealand From New Zealand, joined Oct 2000, 2538 posts, RR: 6 Reply 16, posted (10 years 7 months 4 weeks 1 day 12 hours ago) and read 1130 times:
Auckland International Aiport uses teh taxiways to land sometimes like about 3 months ago when the runway was being worked on!!
T prop From United States of America, joined Apr 2001, 996 posts, RR: 1 Reply 17, posted (10 years 7 months 4 weeks 1 day 11 hours ago) and read 1108 times:
Hey Jerrold,
That Shanghai Airlines 738 you saw take off from HNL did not take off from a taxiway, they used 26R as instructed by a controller.
Yes, this was against the pattern, but traffic was very light and winds were calm at the time. Since they were parked at Century Aviation the controller saved them about 2 miles of taxying.
While this is not common, every once in a while it is done.
Je89_w From United States of America, joined Mar 2002, 2327 posts, RR: 10 Reply 20, posted (10 years 7 months 3 weeks 6 days 19 hours ago) and read 842 times:
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Since they were parked at Century Aviation Nope. No that one.
So if the winds were stronger, it would have taken off on 08R? Man!!! Missed it!!! I'm sure glad to photograph that bird the day before though...
T prop, I have some questions. How do you know that knowledge? How often do you go to the airport? Do you submit any photos to A.net? Are you one of those guards? Do you work on the ramp? Do you know what other delivery/ferry flights are coming in? Do you take pics of Honolulu action too?
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