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.
There was a fair amount of hype from commentators, BUT, said the approaching airliner was down to 100 feet OVER the taxiway, incorrect, as to planes on the ground were ear the threshold. There were five large airliners, one of whom turned on his landing lights as the aircraft approached. The incoming pilot re-checked for clearance to land and said there were lights on the runway. To not be there or see it yourself, and state it wasn't close, and state the aircraft were clearly visible is faulty. The approacing aircraft was, reported, 100 feet above the AC on the taxiway, some said lower, hito evidence seen, pilot asked about his cleared to land status, said there were LIGHTS, not that he saw aircraft. There was clise proximity w AC at 150 knits 100 feet over other AC. I don't like the dramatic statements of worse accident in history, but you are dismissing this incident carelessly.