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Old 5th Mar 2008, 05:33
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Exclamation UnitedX CRJ go-around at uncontrolled airport

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/new...mboat-airport/

Some extra details from the print edition:

"......Express flight ....came within 300 or 400 feet of a smaller plane on the runway before climbing away"

"Air traffic controllers in Denver cleared the smaller plane to take off because they thought the United Express plane had landed. United Express pilot radioed controllers that the plane was “on deck,” meaning it would be the next to land, but the controllers thought he meant “on the deck,” or on the ground.

The United Express crew was communicating with controllers in Denver, about 100 miles southeast, because Yampa Valley does not have a control tower."
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