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So the guy keying up and saying "Where is this guy going?" and "He's on the taxiway" might actually have made a difference in the outcome, huh: > The flight cr

by zkms 9y ago

So the guy keying up and saying "Where is this guy going?" and "He's on the taxiway" might actually have made a difference in the outcome, huh: > The flight crew of the first airplane in queue on taxiway C (UAL1) transmitted statements regarding ACA759, one of which mentioned the alignment of ACA759 with the taxiway while ACA759 was on short final (see figures 2 and 3). > The flight crew of the second airplane in queue on taxiway C switched on their airplane’s landing lights as the incident airplane approached.

mannykannot 9y ago
It may be doubly fortunate that that multiple pilots and controllers did not attempt to say this at the same time. At Tenerife, both the Pan-Am crew and the tower suspected that the KLM aircraft had started its take-off roll, and both tried to warn its crew at the same time, but the resulting radio interference between the concurrent transmissions made the messages unintelligible. This was discussed in detail here: http://www.salon.com/2002/03/28/heterodyne/ http://www.salon.com/2002/03/28/heterodyne/ The author states that there is a feasible technical solution that, at the time of the article (2002) had not been mandated. Does anyone know if the situation has changed?