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Southwest Cooperating in Midway Runway Incursion Investigation
Low Cost Carrier Southwest Airlines is assisting Federal Agencies in the investigation of a close call at Chicago’s Midway Airport last month. (thirtythousand.wordpress.com) Altro...
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What blows me away is I think tower realized his mistake, becusue he seems to become irate and instead of acknowledging southwest, he just continually tells them to contact ground. In my opinion, he should be suspended until this is all sorted out. How someone can clear a plane to takeoff and then immediately tell another plane to cross that runway is beyond me.
Exactly. And then to pretend like nothing happened hoping the pilot wouldn't do anything
Someone just lost their job.....
well, i would have had to put in a report too.
Yeah, it looks like an ATC position at MDW just became available. How could he not realize that he had cleared one aircraft to cross the same runway he had just cleared another aircraft to use for takeoff?
And I just listened to the whole recording. The phone number to MDW Tower is now available to the general public.
The outcome will be interesting, if ever made public. That is the primary reason that local stays with a plane until he is totally clear, to save such things from happening. Good call by the co-pilot.
