This is the Centennial accident all over again. Consider the similarities:
- The runways are only about 600 to 620 ft apart.
- The runway the “overshooting” airplane was supposed to land on does not have an instrument approach (or any other form of final approach guidance).
- Because of another nearly perpendicular runway, the airport reference point (you know… the point you can OBS around?) was a substantial distance away from the overshooting aircraft’s runway. (Indeed, in both cases the overshooting aircrafts ground track is consistent with an attempt to line up on the OBS).
- Both overshooting airplanes are high performance airplanes that are likely TAA, typically amateur flown and often flown by folks with more money than experience.
The easy answer is to blame these on a “failure to look out the window”, and there may be some truth to that. But, when you consider that we’re asking amateur GA pilots to do something we won’t ask professional flight crews to do (ICAO calls for a ~690ft spacing when conducting parallel operations in VMC and 2500ft spacing when IMC). Procedurally, we need ATC to be sequencing the landings (i.e. you should never pass parallel traffic on final).