Originally Posted by
nolimitholdem
*sigh*
What breathless nonsense. In visual conditions there's no way anyone's landing on an occupied strip of pavement, night or not.
A similar attitude led to 35 people dead, 29 seriously injured on February 1, 1991 at LAX. In this case, the "occupied strip of pavement" was runway 24L. The "occupant" was a Skywest Fairchild Metroliner, and the aircraft landing on the "occupied strip of pavement" was a US Air Boeing 737.
The key difference in that case was ATC cleared the 737 to land on 24L while the Fairchild was also cleared to position and hold on 24L. But yes, a professionally piloted aircraft landed on an "occupied strip of pavement" with tragic results. Thank goodness for the go around instruction by ATC this week at SFO.