Landing aborted due to runway congestion
A Qantas plane was forced to abandon its landing due to congestion on the runway at Melbourne Airport this morning.

The 747 jumbo from Los Angeles was carrying 300 passengers when it had to pull out of the landing at the last minute.

Air traffic controllers ordered the pilot to "go around" when the aircraft was on final approach at just 400 feet, an airline spokesman told News Limited.

The pilot was forced to circle until the runway was cleared.

The plane landed at 9:18 am and the passengers disembarked 20 minutes later after the pilot addressed the incident with passengers.

They didn't even really try to hype up the drama.

Landing aborted due to runway traffic super-overcongestion

A Qantas plane was forced to abandon its landing due to congestion on the runway at Melbourne Airport this very morning. Meanwhile, millions of people were going about their lives across the city, unaware of what was unfolding.

The 747 jumbo from Los Angeles was carrying 300 potentially panic-stricken passengers, including many families with children, when it had to pull out of the landing at the last minute.

Air traffic controllers, fearful of impending disaster, ordered the pilot to "go around" when the aircraft was on final approach at just 400 feet, an airline spokesman revealed to News Limited.

The heroic pilot was forced to circle until the runway was cleared by scrambling ground staff, stung into action after hearing word of the precarious situation unfolding.

The plane landed at 9:18 am and the relieved passengers disembarked 20 minutes later after the pilot addressed the incident with passengers. One passenger, a 47 year old nurse from Northridge, California, gave an insight into the fragile mood on board. "One minute we were landing, the next we weren't. A few minutes later we landed. It was all fairly routine and the staff kept us calm", she said. Despite such a brave, stoic response from passengers after the ordeal, almost certainly a result of trauma, one thing is for sure. If it had not been for standard procedure and thoroughly proven and practiced safety measures, or if the plane had just inexplicably crashed for no reason, disaster may not have been so easily averted.

In other news, there were more cars on the road at 5:30 PM than at 3:00 AM. This caused some minor delays and Joyce Jenkins didn't get dinner on the table until after Wheel Of Fortune.

In other news, there were more cars on the road at 5:30 PM than at 3:00 AM. This caused some minor delays and Joyce Jenkins didn't get dinner on the table until after Wheel Of Fortune.

Let me make some changes



I'm so glad they made it.

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[Edited 11/8/09 23:12pm]

actually I wish every day could be so boring
tired of shooting, bombing, scheming, killing babies, raping, stealing, and dumb ass people stories.

talk about slow news day

http://au.news.yahoo.com/...ongestion/

Fauxie said:

"It's not news; it's FARK."

The people behind fark.com wrote a book with that title above, in which they explain how the mainstream news media is manipulated into reporting stories which are either redundant, PR pieces, glorified local news stories, or otherwise suited to gossip magazines. Examples of this are the seasonal holiday stories about alcohol consumption on New Year's Eve, stories about people getting injured from backyard fireworks on the Fourth of July in the USA (or equivalent stories about Bastille Day or other countries Independence Day celebrations), stories about turkey cooking and consumption around Thanksgiving Day, huge fires or disasters which just so happen to occur in large media markets (NY, LA, Chicago, Atlanta, Dallas, Boston), stories about heart disease and treatment options with miracle drugs (which just so happens to be sponsored by a particular major pharmaceutical company), or all of the stories about rowdy shoppers creating a ruckus at Walmart on Black Friday (the day after Thanksgiving).

As mundane as it sounds it's really quite a big deal to the FAA (or in this case the Aussie equiv). They have such strict policy and procedures for all air traffic and document EVERYTHING, normal take-offs and landings, little hiccups like this and crashes.

For a ATC to give an airplane permission to land, then, virtually in mid-landing tell that plane to abort the landing and circle again. Bad stuff.

But yeah, slow news day for it to actually make the news.

Nothinbutjoy said:

ZombieKitten said:

Totally

Nothinbutjoy said:

I'm getting you this for christmas

728huey said:

you will like this programme!

I'm loving this show!! Very cool.

I do not want to believe that that hairstyle is real..