Near miss at O'hare Airport

[Midnight Mike]

Error allowed near miss between 2 planes
Passenger jet taking off at O'Hare came close to cargo plane, officials say
The Associated Press


Updated: 5:45 a.m. PT July 25, 2006
CHICAGO - A passenger jet taking off at O'Hare International Airport came within 90 meters (about 295 feet) of a cargo plane that had just landed, federal aviation officials said.

United Airlines Flight 1015 was able to fly over the Boeing 747 cargo plane, which was on an intersecting runway about 10 p.m. Sunday, and no injuries were reported, the FAA said in a written statement.

Controller error was to blame, the FAA statement said. Both the FAA and the National Transportation Safety Board are investigating the incident, known as a runway incursion.

The United flight was carrying 120 passengers and five crew members to Denver, said Brandon Borrman, a spokesman for the Elk Grove Village-based carrier.

So far this year, O'Hare, the nation's busiest airport, has had five reported runway incursions amid about 540,000 total flights, the FAA said. Last year, it had seven.

Wendy Abrams, a spokeswoman for the city's aviation department, says the incidents are rare, considering the airport handles roughly one million flights a year. "This is abnormal," she said.

[hiss srq]

Expected but not accepted. Sarasota controllers are obviously very famous for a rjunway incursion in the year 2000 followed by a midair collision between a F-16 and a C-172 in 2002. they are brainless. I was on final to 14 one day in the Lear on what I think was like my 3rd flight as a F/o on it and at about half a mile from the fence the controller cleared a Kingair to go on runway 4 and we ended up going missed because the controller did not spot it in time to cancel clearnce.

[T-Bird76]

How can SRQ have so many incursions? The airport is the size of my driveway?

[hiss srq]

Because the controllers are too busy playing piddley puch or whatever the heck they do in there to pass the time but I cant stand them they have a big attitude problem too. I will look for a few of the reports but I nkow at bolth F.B.O.'s we have these survey things the F.A.A. and airport director asked all pilots to fill out about their performance and the hope is they all get canned or relocated to someplace with much less action to cause problems.