757 Lands on Taxiway at EWR & Pilots Bolt

[SWAlifter]

http://www.nypost.com/seven/1031200...gionalnews_murray_weiss_and_jeremy_olshan.htm

Holy Cow!

Mistake 1- Landing a 757 on a 70' taxiway at a major airport
Mistake 2- Pilots just taxi clear and leave the airport without notifying anyone. WTFO!

Maybe there's another side to the story than what the NY Post reports, but it sure seems whacked.

 

[stonewall]

Wow. Glad it wasn't SWA or FDX. Otherwise this thread would be 169 posts long by now.

 

[Bavarian Chef]

http://www.nypost.com/seven/1031200...gionalnews_murray_weiss_and_jeremy_olshan.htm

Holy Cow!

Mistake 1- Landing a 757 on a 70' taxiway at a major airport
Mistake 2- Pilots just taxi clear and leave the airport without notifying anyone. WTFO!

Maybe there's another side to the story than what the NY Post reports, but it sure seems whacked.

Dude, happy hour had started an hour earlier at the Holiday Inn! YOU NEED TO REASSES YOUR PRIORITIES!

 

[whatitdoing?]

And CO hasn't called to interview me???

 

[zonker]

Not exusing what happened, but EWR doesn't have any taxiway edge lighting. I don't think there are any other major US airports that can say that (but I'm not positive).

Combine that with a relatively challenging circling approach and I can certainly see how it could happen.

 

[SkiFishFly]

From the article:
"This is a big f- - -ing deal! How do you land a jet on a taxiway?"

Easy you just don't flare as much...

 

[nimtz]

Wow. Glad it wasn't SWA or FDX. Otherwise this thread would be 169 posts long by now.

Oh it will be up there when said and done. Most posts will be about the Captain being a typical scab and the FO probably being an unqualified intern minority with 1500 hours. Note post earlier. Circling to 29 definetly is a challenging profile especially from 4R and I've probably done it over 100 times. Yeah this incident was ugly, but I wouldn't trust the words of any publication that has a Page Six and Victoria Gotti as a part-time columnist...

 

[Capn Mike]

Were they doing some fatigue testing??

 

[ATR-DRIVR]

Uh, no they weren't.

 

[jbDC9]

From the article:
"This is a big f- - -ing deal! How do you land a jet on a taxiway?"

Easy you just don't flare as much...

LOL! I almost shot coffee out my nose with that reference...