"Jim Macklin" wrote in message
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The plane was out of Tulsa, and was northeast of Dallas. It
wanted to be on the ground "right away."

Unless you can show that ATC vectored the aircraft into a
standard 30 mile south right traffic for runway 35R, then
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.


So he's north of the field, and you say it's faster to go to runway 35 than
to runway 17? Is the shortest distance between two points something other
than a straight line in your world?



ATC has to clear not just the runway, but the airplanes that
have departed and are strung out on approach in case the
emergency aircraft needs to make a missed approach.


Which would be done by the time he arrives for runway 17.



I'll wait for the FAA and NTSB to issue a report, the news
media is not a valid source, even if they have a "tape"
since they can and do leave many things out.


Perhaps, but the portion of the tape that was included shows the pilot
declared an emergency and was denied expeditious handling.