The Ted Reed piece articulates the ‘cya’ pilots union narrative and a poor excuse for the incident. One Mile at a Time reports these narratives though correctly adds “this doesn’t address why the (experienced) captain taxied the plane to the wrong runway.” And that makes the rest of Ted Reed’s piece basically irrelevant. (They did not operate a flight back to the U.S.
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And Reed says the pilots continued to fly to London – a questionable move, given that they could have been easily shaken by the incident, and perhaps in no condition to fly, plus this likely overwrote the conversations around the incursion from the voice recorder – because they didn’t know the seriousness of what had happened.The American Airlines pilots union has been saying they’ve been warning about safety because of new procedures they say they haven’t been trained on yet.Ted Reed writes with the union narrative for Forbes. And now the Allied Pilots Association is running interference in the media. How could that American plane have found itself taxiing on the wrong runway in front of another plane – that almost slammed into it? There’s also a lot of finger pointing. Given the potential calamity that was narrowly avoided, there’s a search for answers. It was told whom to call to report the incident, and half an hour later took off for Heathrow airport. The transatlantic 777 didn’t follow air traffic control instructions. The Delta flight stopped less than 1000 feet from where it would have intersected with American’s plane. This was nearly a disaster of epic proportions, as the American jet crossed right in front of Delta, and the Delta plane hit the brakes. On January 13, an American Airlines Boeing 777 headed to London taxied on the wrong runway as a Delta 737 began its take off roll.
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