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How the worst airline accident in history was avoided
https://youtu.be/3sEOwMfF7MA?t=1m18sMy favorite air disaster documentarian, Allec Joshua Ibay, recreated last month's SFO taxiway near-miss, complete with real radio traffic. I skipped the scene-setting in the above embed: an inbound pilot mistaking a taxiway, with a bunch of loaded planes on it, for the runway.
I find these quiet, unvarnished real-time recreations far more harrowing than mouthy cable TV dramatics. A few moments of distraction and confusion, then sudden realization, and it's all over. A sentence of radio chatter (the crew on the second ground-side plane also turned the landing lights on) likely saved hundreds of lives in what could have been the worst accident in aviation history.
posted a photo from the tower:
And here's an animated version illustrating just how close they got: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydUqfhNqUIc
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/iph4dR-7oRg/how-the-worst-airline-accident.html