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Old 3rd August 2017 | 14:41
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hitchens97
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From: oakland
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. ATC may have ordered a go-around but that doesn't mean the AC crew hadn't already noticed their error. If the aircraft on C were waiting to take off they would have been at the threshold end and clearly visible.

It certainly wasn't anything close to a disaster. An embarrassing, recoverable error if true, at most.
Huh? This looks pretty damn close to a disaster.
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