Within 14 seconds? Idk, that seems like plenty of time. By that logic I survive thousands of "near misses" on my 10 minute drive to work every day. Don't they have, like, entire teams of people whose entire full time job is to monitor the planes in relation to one another and guide them to safely interact in and around airports?
It would take a bit to convince me there's actually serious danger here
Cars are a lot more maneuverable than planes and can share a road a lot better than a runway and there should not be any risk of contact at all with planes
I would assume it’s a matter of the system not staying within operating parameters.
It’s designed to run with a certain amount of clearance for other aircraft. And if you’re unable to keep the thing running within the safety parameters you set for yourself, that really is an issue—even if the margins are large enough that violations don’t necessarily lead to collisions (ie, as opposed to running with zero margin)
Not if everything is working perfectly, but if something happens to the plane on the runway, like it stalls out or otherwise can't move out of the way for whatever reason, there's not going to be any time for air traffic control to reroute the incoming plane. The pilots might be able to make some last-second evasive maneuvers, but huge passenger jets aren't that maneuverable in a 14-second window. The idea is that there should always be a large enough window of time that if something goes wrong on the runway, the incoming plane can be safely and easily routed somewhere else. 14 seconds just isn't long enough when you're talking about these huge jets full of people. It's a completely unnecessary risk with potentially catastrophic consequences, and it can be avoided entirely by spacing things out a little more.
I'm not a pilot, but I'll bet ten bucks there is a known time-frame within which a landing can be safely aborted, and that's probably the amount of time that the runway should be completely clear.
Within 14 seconds? Idk, that seems like plenty of time. By that logic I survive thousands of "near misses" on my 10 minute drive to work every day. Don't they have, like, entire teams of people whose entire full time job is to monitor the planes in relation to one another and guide them to safely interact in and around airports?
It would take a bit to convince me there's actually serious danger here
Cars are a lot more maneuverable than planes and can share a road a lot better than a runway and there should not be any risk of contact at all with planes
And the fact that they were in the same place 14 seconds apart means there was risk? I don't buy it.
I would assume it’s a matter of the system not staying within operating parameters.
It’s designed to run with a certain amount of clearance for other aircraft. And if you’re unable to keep the thing running within the safety parameters you set for yourself, that really is an issue—even if the margins are large enough that violations don’t necessarily lead to collisions (ie, as opposed to running with zero margin)
Not if everything is working perfectly, but if something happens to the plane on the runway, like it stalls out or otherwise can't move out of the way for whatever reason, there's not going to be any time for air traffic control to reroute the incoming plane. The pilots might be able to make some last-second evasive maneuvers, but huge passenger jets aren't that maneuverable in a 14-second window. The idea is that there should always be a large enough window of time that if something goes wrong on the runway, the incoming plane can be safely and easily routed somewhere else. 14 seconds just isn't long enough when you're talking about these huge jets full of people. It's a completely unnecessary risk with potentially catastrophic consequences, and it can be avoided entirely by spacing things out a little more.
I'm not a pilot, but I'll bet ten bucks there is a known time-frame within which a landing can be safely aborted, and that's probably the amount of time that the runway should be completely clear.
Yeah, pretty much. Depending on where you live a few hundred to a few thousand people aren't as lucky.