But only the controllers know which would be fastest for the
plane with the emergency.


"Ricky Robbins" wrote in
message ...
| On Sat, 24 Feb 2007 09:34:36 -0600, "Jim Macklin"
| wrote:
|
| ATC did in fact get him on the ground "right away" faster
| than if they had tried to move all the other aircraft out
of
| the way.
|
| There's no reason I can think of that he could not have
been cleared
| for straight in from his position to the runway he
requested; traffic
| could have been moved out of the way without problem or
incident --
| delay, sure, but no problem or incident.
|
| Rick