On June 9, 2005, about 1940 eastern daylight time, Aer Lingus flight 132 (EIN132), an Airbus 333, and US Airways flight 1170 (USA1170), a Boeing 737, were involved in a runway incursion at General Edward Lawrence Logan International Airport, Boston, Massachusetts. No injuries were reported, and neither aircraft was damaged. Both aircraft were under control of the Boston Air Traffic Control Tower; the local control west (LCW) controller was responsible for EIN132 and the local control east (LCE) controller was responsible for USA1170. At 2339:10, LCW cleared EIN132 for takeoff from runway 15R. Five seconds later, forgetting that he had released the runway to allow EIN 132 to depart, LCE cleared USA1170 for departure from runway 9. The first officer on USA1170 saw EIN102 and pushed the control column forward to prevent the captain from taking off. Once EIN132 had passed through the intersection, USA1170 became airborne. The Airport Movement Area Safety System (AMASS) did not activate because in its configuration at that time, it was not designed to operate on intersecting runways due to the number of nuisance alerts. The incident occurred during daylight visual meteorological conditions.
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Runway Incursion Between Aer Lingus A330 and US Air B737
June 27th, 2008 | Airlines
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that was really close!
An aircraft on approach would be flying a Vref speed-a speed that depends on flap settings & weight & likely available runway for stopping distances, though this is not a dependent factor on Vref speed. I’m not familiar with airbus, though I do understand that they use flap 1,2,3 etc instead of a specific degree setting like the boeing. Once the decision to go around was made, it is likely that go-around flap, To/Ga, & GA thrust was set & speed flown was likely Vref(GA flap) +some margin-zero.
Ya i have to go to logan international airport cause i live in boston.
It did happen dumbass.. But i still wonder why two runways which were not parallel was used at the same time.
Aer Lingus is A Irish Based Company. One of its main hubs is Dublin. US Airways Is Based in America. The Aer Lingus Flight luckily (I think) had a bit of a longer runway and the US Airways aircraft had not gone that far down the runway, and it doesn’t have as powerful engines so the aircraft did not take of that early. I think that Runway intersections should be made safe. They also need more traffic controllers
Actually this did happen. It’s aer lingus flight 132 from Boston which almost collided with the US airways 737. the video is also not of a game, but of an investigation of the NTSB.
shit tahats scary!!!
Maybe they should put some stop signs up at the intersection!
You never use both runways at the same time, it’s dependant on wind direction. This video is of a game and this would never happen.
it always depends on direction of the wind around the airfield
they should make the runways that cross 4 landing only
Not two separate tower controls, two separate controllers (that’s two people in the same tower). They should have known better, a rookie mistake, but not as bad as holding a plane for take-off or a runway at the same time with giving a landing clearance on the same runway.
The USA plane was at V1 speed, the Lingus at V2, at that point simply braking is impossible. The USA plane decelerrated since the copilot noticed the other plane and then took off at V2min on short distance.
If airports had all the room in the world, they would. But they don’t so they have to maximize space.
at least it is efficient!!
I think that the runways that cross over should be banned. Lucky that they didn’t crash.
BULL SHIT WHAT YOU TELL
The controllers were absolutely at fault here and it’s not the first time this has happend at Logan International.
Actually if you read the Wikipedia article about this issue, there were two separate tower controls that gave separate clearances… and apparently there was also something in between that prevented the aircrafts from seeing each other!
Very scary since I use Boston Logan Int’l airport for almost all of my travel…
that is true the pilot is PIC, but the controller gave the clearance for both planes to take off & also you should take in account that this video says that it does not depict actual weather conditions. There is a possibility the visibility was poor and there was no way to see the plane on the other runway.
The tower is at fault
*potential disaster
how is it the pilot fault it the atc that gives clearnce
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