Han's "Lost the Edge"

[vossman]

http://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/harrison-ford-has-incident-passenger-plane-airport-n720826

OCs a busy airport, glad he's OK.

[Bailey Guns]

Runway, taxiway...it's all concrete.

I guess the old saying, "any landing you can walk away from is a good landing" isn't quite true.

[Irving]

Maybe it's because I don't know anything about flying, but I'm impressed by all the crash landings. Seems like most pilots only get to crash once. What say you pilots on the board?

[WETWRKS]

They need to pull his license. Way too many close calls.

[cstone]

If he wasn't a celebrity, I would think the FAA would be taking his licence. PIC is responsible for the safety of flight and he has had more than a few close calls.

Just my opinion.

[Gman]

They need to pull his license. Way too many close calls.
I was just commenting to the wife, "Perhaps Harrison Ford is getting too old to fly."

[Wulf202]

This latest one was his error. Several of the others were directly related to the aircraft being vintage. Technology can seriously help with reliability

[Irving]

Haha, so not a super badass that self-rescues from mechanical failures after all!

[bczandm]

That's what happens when you learn to fly the Millennium Falcon first. Nothing else keeps up :)

[Hoser]

Landing on a taxiway is kind of a big deal.

Even more so when there is already someone on the taxiway.

SNA isn't that big of an airport where you can get confused.

[Irving]

https://i.imgflip.com/1jo2f1.jpg

[SAnd]

At least he landed at the right airport.

[wctriumph]

He likes hash.

[cstone]

Real fans know that the Wookie was actually flying.

[J]

Landing on a taxiway is kind of a big deal.

Even more so when there is already someone on the taxiway.

SNA isn't that big of an airport where you can get confused.

I did it this last July. Had no problems what so ever. Wasn't at KSNA though.

But there was another aircraft on the taxiway, and a Boeing, lockheed and Northrup were all rolling around at the same time. In fact. I made approach over the top of departing traffic opposite direction, and Landed over another aircraft already on the taxiway.

True Story.

[J]

Crickets. [Coffee]

[Dlesh123]

Hmmm, sounds like you were at OSH

[Gman]

Crickets. [Coffee]
I'm speechless. [Eek1]

[cstone]

Crickets. [Coffee]

Did this involve the use of a full motion stimulator? [LOL]

[KAPA]

This is not news. Happens from time to time at that airport and that runway is about the same size as the taxiway there and they blend together fairly well. I have landed on both runways there many times. I can see how it can happen.

[O2HeN2]

Seems to me a commercial jet did that at Colorado Springs in the late 80s or early 90s...

O2

[J]

Hmmm, sounds like you were at OSH

Winner!

For EAA AirVenture, the FAA issues special separation minimum and runway waivers. 12,000 planes over the course of a week to a little 2 runway class D airport in Oshkosh WI. 172 Air Traffic Controllers volunteer and take part in coordinating the massive amount of traffic. During that week, KOSH has the busiest control tower in the world, eclipsing several major international airports COMBINED!

There are multiple touchdown points on each runway for simultaneous approaches (one plane lands at threshold, another at a painted dot or square ~1/2 way down the runway), departing and arriving traffic on each runway. Traffic lines up side by side on the runway for departure, one on each side of the center line (like lanes on a highway) with only a short stagger. I took off and quickly overtook my neighboring little cub that cruises slower than my Vy climb speed.

Additionally, they use one taxiway as a temporary runway for the week so that they can have 3 "runways" available for the huge amount of traffic.

The departing traffic departs directly below the approach path for 2 of the runways, and is altitude restricted until clearing the class D airspace. On approach, departing traffic is only a couple hundred feet below.

OSH 2016, I was cleared to land "red square, 36R", which is technically taxiway A, about half way down.

Its the most hectic, bat-shiz crazy thing that is fully planned and coordinated (for the most part).

[J]

Did this involve the use of a full motion stimulator? [LOL]

Nope, real airplane.

[Martinjmpr]

He had to land on the taxi way.

Greedo was waiting for him on the runway. ;)

[J]

Seems to me a commercial jet did that at Colorado Springs in the late 80s or early 90s...

O2

Alaska Airlines has done it at Sea-Tac (KSEA). And they fly in and out of there all the time, its their major hub. It happens enough some places, that they put huge light up "X"s in front of the taxiway, or paint huge letters 'TAXIWAY' on the surface to try to stop it from recurring.