>>The most shocking thing is that the geniuses up front actually then flew the plane home to Manila.
Standard procedure for many airlines in the region. China Airlines continued on to TPE last year after taking off on a taxiway and hitting a snowbank in ANC (they had an airshow in HNL yesterday as well):
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Posted: 27 January 2002, 12:02am EST (0502 GMT)
China Airlines plane takes off from Anchorage taxiway.
Anchorage Daily News
A China Airlines Airbus carrying 254 passengers and crew members narrowly avoided catastrophe early Friday when pilots took off in the wrong direction and on a taxiway instead of a runway at Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport.
In its takeoff just before 3 a.m., the plane came so close to running out of taxiway that its landing gear clipped a snow berm at the pavement's end before it gained altitude over Cook Inlet and flew on to Taipei, according to federal investigators...
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Of course, the "Delta Professionals" had an incident years ago where the 767 captain thought he was playing with some FADEC switches and turned off both fuel cutoffs instead. They were departing LAX, got relights, climbed up and after consulting ATL flight ops, continued on to CVG. The mechanics found salt spray on the plane. The feds appeared at the captain's house to demand surrender of his certificates.
http://aviation-safety.net/database/...19870630-0.htm