http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=9db_1358826696

Traffic scans, who needs those?

I've seen that before. Kudos to the guys in the first plane for staying calm and not doing something stupid.

Somebody is going to be in trouble.

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Way back at the airport I was flying out of, they had an incident with a low wing aircraft and a high wing aircraft that
were both on final just about exactly the same distance from the threshold, but neither of them knew it.

Of course, the high wing aircraft was on the bottom and the low wing aircraft was on top, which is exactly the way they landed with the
pilot of the plane on the bottom getting to watch the prop of the plane on top penetrating the windscreen.

No injuries. It was wild.

 

Was there no traffic control?

Oops!  

No. Small airport VFR.


ETA: Now, I can't answer why they didn't get a clue from radio communications, which should have had two pilots issuing identical instructions.

It's called a CTAF...good Lord

Wonder if the FAA will pay him a visit

Control?  We don't need no stinking control.



ETA



Anyone remember some years back when an airliner landed on top of a commuter plane on the runway?  Scattered dead people and parts down the runway as the big plane skated on the smaller plane right off the runway and crashed into a building and burned them both up.

It's not in the US.  Look at the street they fly over.  Traffic is on the wrong side of the road.

check 6.... or the gerry's will sneak up on you...

Years ago my Dad, FIL, and I flew from KPDK to Tara Field for the NASCAR race.  (you thoght trafic was bad in a car after a race?  Try sitting in a 182 with every jet in the state of NC in front of you).

Anyways, we were approacing the pattern on the return trip at roughly dusk.  There was a LOT of traffic.  (My dad works and flies out of PDK just about daily for the last 20 years.  He's familiar with the area and procedures)  Control was beyond confused.  Dude was a little bit of a noob expecting a slow Sunday afternoon I guess.  I am not a pilot and even I knew this guy was way out of his league.  As he called out our #s and gave us instructions that sounded erily familiar (he just had given them to someone else) my Dad said "Screw this".  It was right them that you heard a new voice on the comms.  VERY calm lady (whom my Dad called out by name) got e'rything back in control quickly.  That was...interesting.  ("Dicey" as my Dad, a retired F4 driver, called it).


BTW, Coolest trip w/ Dad was KATL to KDTS in a Barron.  Control at Eglin called traffic coming from our 6.  Looked over to the right a few second later and here come 2 F 15s.  Dad called "Tally HO!"  and got a chuckle from the Fighter jocks.  They asked if he was gonna roll in on them.