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VIDEO: Harrison Ford Mistakenly Lands Husky On KSNA Taxiway
On Mon, 27 Mar 2017 09:52:58 -0700, Larry Dighera wrote:
On Wed, 22 Feb 2017 18:28:47 -0000, wrote: Larry Dighera wrote: If the report below is to be believed, it would appear that Ford was a bit confused and making multiple mistakes during his flight. I think I will believe the official report when it is released and not jump to conclusions based on blather from the aviation ignorant media and TMZ. http://www.avweb.com/avwebflash/news...-228705-1.html Harrison Ford "The Schmuck" Apologized For Gaffe By Russ Niles | March 25, 2017 Harrison Ford was contrite and apologized to air traffic controllers at John Wayne Airport in Orange County last Feb. 13. The FAA released tapes https://www.faa.gov/data_research/accident_incident/2017-02-13/ of two radio exchanges and one phone call between Ford and John Wayne tower personnel on Friday. “I’m the schmuck who landed on the taxiway,” Ford told tower personnel in a phone call shortly after putting his Husky down on Taxiway Charlie instead of Runway 20L as cleared. “I landed on Charlie?” he asks incredulously when a controller gives him the bad news after he cleared, by less than 100 feet, an American Airlines Boeing 737 holding short of the runway Ford was supposed to use. The cool-as-a-cucumber controller tells Ford to keep taxiing on the taxiway to an intersection and hold where he’s asked to copy down the phone number for the tower to discuss a “possible pilot deviation.” He’s then cleared to the FBO. During the call to the tower, Ford has to dig through his backpack to find his pilot certificate and the FAA employee tells him the delay “is not a big deal” and to take his time. “It’s a big deal to me,” said Ford. The actor and longtime pilot tells the tower man by way of explanation that he was distracted by the airliner turning to hold short of the runway and by the turbulence from an Airbus that just landed. He apologized several times to the tower worker. There is also tape of a phone call from the captain of the 737 that Ford overflew who told a tower staffer that he was compelled to report the incident. He also pointed out that the tail of his aircraft is 42 feet tall in reference to his perception of how close Ford came to his aircraft. The pilot is assured the FAA is looking into the incident and that the Husky was not cleared to land on the taxiway. In the attempt to include relevant factual information regarding the subject of this message thread, the radio and telephone communications audio recordings of Mr. Ford and the airliner captain over whom he flew, and the ATC staff (obtained under FOIA) are on-line he https://youtu.be/roRhnd8kZ6A What I find interesting is Ford's statement, that he had lost his Airmans Certificate, and he was searching for a temporary certificate (at 15:38 into the video: https://youtu.be/roRhnd8kZ6A?t=14m16s ). I don't recall ever having received a temporary certificate from the FAA. Curious. Given the prescribed technique for wake turbulence avoidance is to land beyond the airliner's touchdown point, and the runway 20L 2,887 foot length, Ford's concern with the potential of encountering wake turbulence was appropriate. Faced with such a situation, I'm unsure what I'd have done, but a prudent PIC might have gone around. On the other hand, a Husky probably has a short-field landing figure of ~600', and with a steep slip and on the back-side of the power-curve, probably significantly shorter. But, that would have required short-field calculations during the flight-planning phase... |
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