On 26 Dec 2009, 22:05, Bug Dout wrote:
Mxsmanic writes:
I'm just wondering if those pilots who landed on a taxiway had their licenses
revoked, too, since they also deserved to be grounded.

Not sure that merely landing on a taxiway is cause for license revocation.


Eh? You could easily miss a helpless aircraft and/or other vehicles,
aside of the likelihood of the taxiway not being long enough to
prevent an overrun.

If that ain't cause for license revocation, an arrest is the least
severe censure.


That would be a single momentary mistake; the NW pilots made
a series of careless mistakes over an hour or more.

Having missed the scheduled TOD by as much as half an hour and then
too realizing that something might be amiss only by accident seems way
odd for two aviators with that much flying experience between them.

The other oddity is the meal comment. A meal at 5.30 pm?? And I'm sure
pilots would need to be not eating pre-TOD because the PF needs to
conduct an approach briefing, among other things.


I saw a bizjet land at the wrong airport a few years ago.

Although this isn't uncommon, in this day and age, landing at the
wrong airport is utterly unpardonable. I recall that 5 years ago an
Airbus A319 landed thus near Rapid City. Unless they'd keyed in the
wrong airport data into the FMC and/or violated the SOP by hand-flying
during phases when they shouldn't have been, it beggars belief that an
FBW a/c could've managed that!

Ramapriya