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> The 17 runways are quite separated laterally so it’s more probable that he was wrongly going for the 17L thinking he was aiming for the correct runway. > htt
by Denvercoder9 5y ago
> The 17 runways are quite separated laterally so it’s more probable that he was wrongly going for the 17L thinking he was aiming for the correct runway.
> https://flttrack.fltplan.com/AirportDiagrams/KDENapt.jpg https://flttrack.fltplan.com/AirportDiagrams/KDENapt.jpg
This is the diagram for a different airport (Denver International, KDEN). The accident happened at Centennial Airport (KAPA), where the two runways are only separated by about 700 feet.
- omegant 5y agoThank you! I should have checked. Then he may have overshoot going for the correct runway. Thankfully both pilots will be able to testify.
- mannykannot 5y ago17R is shorter and narrower than 17L. If the pilot mistook 17R for a taxiway, it would have been a mirror-image situation to the relatively recent one at SFO, were an airliner was making its approach to a taxiway.