Originally Posted by
huey_driver
Not every procedures violation is a threat to safety. They are ALL tracked to HELP safety, for example, the “hot spots” on airport diagrams. In this case, a B777 and a C206 (3800lb MGW) came within a QUARTER MILE of each other. And without more INFORMATION, we don’t even know if the C206 pilot was standing on the brakes to make a taxiway instead of rolling out another quarter mile making his taxi his parking further and longer…
Finally, the article posted stated the “cargo plane” (inciting visions of B747) was a Cessna 206 ‘turboprop’. My initial thought was a Caravan, but then I thought “wait a minute…” Unless it was heavily modified, the C206 is NOT a turboprop.
My point is, we are picking and choosing the data we want to panic over, when these articles are CLEARLY not accurate.
Hmm so in your book it's ok if planes cross active runways without ATC clearance as long as they stay a QUARTER MILE apart from each other? In the recent JFK near miss the AA and DL planes were 1,400 ft apart so by your definition I guess that's not a threat to safety either...
