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December 30th, 2007, 16:04
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| Junior Member  Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Kansas City
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 |  Plane Skids Off Runway A plane preparing for take off at Kansas City International Airport skidded off the runway Sunday morning. It happened when United Airlines flight 163 bound for Denver just left the departure gate, turned onto a surface road, and skidded off the runway into a grassy patch around 6:30 a.m., officials said. No injuries were reported. All 182 passengers onboard the aircraft were taken off the plane and returned to the terminal. http://news.yahoo.com/s/kmbc/20071230/lo_kmbc/14947412
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December 30th, 2007, 16:43
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| Old Skool  Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Park City, UT
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 | Re: Plane Skids Off Runway Wait...the United flight turned onto a surface road...but then skid of the runway!? How'd it get from the surface road to the runway...and why was it on a surface road!?
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December 30th, 2007, 16:46
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Kansas City MO
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| Re: Plane Skids Off Runway Very interesting. I guess I'm a little at a loss here, it didn't snow last night or this morning, and yesterday was a nice sunny day. Why do the pictures I've seen of this show the aircraft on a snowy, barely cleared surface? Now when I landed on Thursday at IXD the runway looked like that, which was a wonderful addition to my approach after shooting the ILS at damn near minimums !  |
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December 30th, 2007, 19:36
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Olathe, KS/ Grand Forks, ND
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| Re: Plane Skids Off Runway The plane never made it to the runway, it had just pushed and was taxiing to the runway when it turned onto a service road instead of a taxiway. |
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December 30th, 2007, 20:03
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| Re: Plane Skids Off Runway Damn low time 757 pilots. </sarcasm>
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December 30th, 2007, 20:08
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| Junior Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Austin
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| Re: Plane Skids Off Runway yeah, they probably only have 4000 hrs, and didn't pay their dues... you have to pay your dues... 
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December 30th, 2007, 21:12
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| Junior Member  Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Ann Arbor, MI
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December 31st, 2007, 11:17
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| Old Skool  Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Phoenix, AZ
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| Re: Plane Skids Off Runway I gotta wonder how many accidents or even incidents are caused by the 200 hour pilot sitting in the cockpit.
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December 31st, 2007, 11:24
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: KEWR (by way of Brooklyn, NY)
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| Re: Plane Skids Off Runway I was just in MCI a few days ago. THey had to shut down 19R/1L to clear out the snow. There was snow all over the ramp and taxiways. We really had to be careful when taxiing. At least 19L/1R was clear. Almost reminds me of CLE. 
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December 31st, 2007, 11:58
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| Old Skool  Join Date: May 2006 Location: Live in Temple, TX - From Ithaca, NY - Wish I was on an island in Fiji
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| Re: Plane Skids Off Runway Boy these low time pilots sure are making lots of mistakes these days. Seems like, as always, a lack of diligence is what causes more incidents than any other reason. |
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December 31st, 2007, 12:25
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| Old Skool Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Park City, UT
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| Re: Plane Skids Off Runway I think it's a lot easier to slide off a runway than it might seem. I haven't driven one of these things yet, but trying to figure out how to get a couple of thousand pounds of thrust and a 6" nose wheel to do what you want doesn't seem too easy.
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December 31st, 2007, 13:00
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| Newbie  Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: cincinnati, ohio
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 | Re: Plane Skids Off Runway I thought the captain had to taxi aircraft.  |
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December 31st, 2007, 15:19
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January 3rd, 2008, 00:00
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| Old Skool Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Phoenix, AZ
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January 3rd, 2008, 00:18
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| Moderator  Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Socal
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| Re: Plane Skids Off Runway I bet the service road crumbled under the weight - my mum was on a DC-10 which did a similar stunt. I would imagine finding the airport is easier than taxiing around some of them. |
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