We’re in agreement Tom that this incident should never have happened, but we don’t really know what the workload was on that particular flight deck. What we do know is that workload management was not sufficient to have caused them to hold short of that runway. Furthermore I would speculate that contempt likely played no part in this particular crew failure.
Duffy’s interview reaction was unprofessional, uninformed, and counterproductive to aviation safety. Instead of demonstrating leadership, he delivered a political soundbite that ignored the complexities of aviation decision-making and undermined the fair, structured approach that aviation safety depends on.
AOPA commented in the news story.
Trump’s cabinet members were appointed based on their loyalty/fealty to him, not their qualifications for the job. One of Trump’s favorite phrases when he was a game show host was “your fired”. Trump seems gleeful every time Elon Musk announces that he has fired another thousand government workers. That message is being received loud and clearly by his cabinet members. You cannot be surprised by what Duffy said because he only has to answer to and please one person and that’s Trump. A president has the right to choose his own cabinet to carry out his agenda and that’s what he has done. This is the new normal and if you didn’t see it coming you weren’t paying attention.
The deadliest aviation accident in terms of passenger fatalities was the Tenerife airport disaster on March 27, 1977, which killed 583 people when a KLM Boeing 747 attempted to take off and collided with a taxiing Pan Am 747 at Los Rodeos Airport on the Canary Island of Tenerife, Spain.
After 48 years the Aviation Industry hasn’t developed a way to prevent ‘runway incursions’. An ATC SMS program would review the common denominator and through Root Analysis create ways to prevent future failures.
Time for the Transportation Industry to practice what they preach and the ATC SMS program should present the leaders with a fix. Having the controller instructions Texted to/from the cockpit will help with multiple radios transmitting simultaneously. Quite often the controller is trying to talk so fast that they confuse the multiple pilots trying to operate an aircraft and listen for instructions.
Don’t forget congress passed “The Pilot Bill Of Rights”. Politicians are politicians, bureaucrats are bureaucrats, nothing new here. Figured by now most people would be use to chest beating. They all act like King Kong until it’s time to take action.
Though I can only see a use for this when issuing a routing clearance. It would take too long for a controller to type out heading/altitude/airspeed instructions vs just saying it on frequency. A texted taxi clearance could be useful too, but unless the text is automatically generated by the controller drawing the routing clearance on a touchscreen, it just introduces the possibility of the controller mistyping the clearance. At least with a routing clearance, it is generally already generated by the ATC computers so it would just be a matter of forwarding it on.
Just want to clarify if you mean that the controllers are mixing up aircraft, or that the pilots get confused because the controllers talk so fast.
Yeah both, when the congested radio traffic is squealing and the controller is reading off N-numbers and the pilots can’t get clear communications. Well, mistakes are made.
A dedicated ATC emergency one tap text on a touchscreen either “Hold Short” or “Go Around”. There maybe other quick commands also that come across both the PFD screen and the pilots Terrain Awareness and Warning System (TAWS).
Over the years they have put flashing lights at runway intersections to prevent incursions. Any and all ideas should be reviewed to make airport dense traffic safer. This latest event was caught on camera so it’s a big deal but many of these close-call events are happening everyday.