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The controller told the truck to proceed, before telling it to stop. That was a serious ATC error.
by jlawson 6mo ago
The controller told the truck to proceed, before telling it to stop. That was a serious ATC error.
- ceejayoz 6mo agoIf the timings on the video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pbm-QJAAzNY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pbm-QJAAzNY are accurate, it had time to cross; it seems they dawdled a bit. Controller probably should've told them to expedite the crossing or warned that traffic was about to land, but they were managing a lot at once; tower+ground by themselves and an emergency already.
- markdown 6mo agoThe poor guy was managing two runways and ground traffic, which is nuts.
- dghlsakjg 6mo agoThis isn’t super unusual, it’s just that when they do this it’s normally at an airport in east bumfuck where a controller is barely needed. Doing it at LaGuardia or any major airport is absolutely nuts.
- phil21 6mo agoI counted 8 seconds from clear to cross to first 'truck 1 stop' - along with it not being immediately clear the stop was for the truck, or for Frontier 4195 until 2 more seconds. Add a few seconds for human reaction time on both ends, I don't think that's really "enough time to cross safely" - maybe if the stars align.