Flight Deck Video Captures Botched Bhutan Landing - AVweb

Roger here again. Not trying to be a “know it all”. However, I soloed out of Torrance in '59 and continued to fly actively out of all the L.A. basin airports until '76 when I left the area. From '68 until leaving the area, I worked as an ATC type out there including at Long Beach, both Tracon (when there was such a thing) and in the control tower also. This was the era of VA flight training. LGB was at the time the 4th busiest airport in the country with at times as many as 22 flight schools operating off the airport, 560K operations a year. My point is these “who cares” events occured all the time by both pilots and controllers. Had we “told on” each other every time, the region would have had to hire another dozen persons just to process our paperwork. Pilots and controllers quickly forgive each other for these minor indiscretions and would then resume the very busy business of making it work. I loved it! How this issue with Harrison ended up seeing the light of day, I don’t know…but never should have had the spirit still existed. I guess it takes “busy” to keep you so involved that you don’t have time for petty. (I did later end up at ORD for many delightful years of “busy” where there was just no time for petty.) …not sure what I just said…