A regional jet at Springfield airport in Illinois nearly hit a van crossing the runway. The plane missed the van with around two seconds to spare! Therefore avoiding tragedy!
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I need the contact info of whoever was working the grill that day. Must have been some damn good barbecue
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Who’s fault is this?
- Pilot’s fault
- Fault by ATC
- Barbecue
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The Atc in this is likely going to be the one who loses their job
My dads an ATC (not at that airport) and whenever an aircraft is on takeoff roll, he denies any vehicle request to cross the runway, even if the aircraft is several feet above the runway. So all I can say is they need to investigate all ATC communications with the driver of that van. It could also be the van drivers fault. How could he not see an aircraft was coming. I’m guessing it wasnt so windy he couldn’t hear the aircraft engines.
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He wanted some Barbecue
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