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A pilot had been told to wait to take off before planes collided on Houston runway, NTSB says
The pilot of a twin-engine Hawker aircraft started rolling on a runway after being told to line up and wait for takeoff when the plane's wing struck the tail of a twin engine Cessna that had just landed at William P. Hobby Airport in Houston, the National Transportation Safety Board said Wednesday. (abcnews.go.com) More...
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Interesting. We always on being cleared for takeoff, turned on the landing lights and away we'd go. Line & Wait or taxi into position & hold clearances would see only the strobes come on. Takeoff clearances were always confirmed by just looking at the landing light switch(s) position & CRM. Didn’t matter if we were in a L-1011, Gulfstream or a Cherokee.
" line up and wait" is the "taxi into position and hold" for the old timers and SA, let alone CRM, seems a foreign concept for this Happy Hawker crew.
Serendipity for the no RIP result, thank you!
Serendipity for the no RIP result, thank you!
I know they have to be thorough but 2 years to investigate seems excessive.
More than a month would seem excessive, to me. Everything seems to take forever, nowadays
ATC if you listen to the Audio, cleared the aircraft to line up and wait, then got focused on two other aircraft, and forgot about him.
It’s ATC who should be given a number to call, they have a problem.
It’s ATC who should be given a number to call, they have a problem.
Line up and wait means line up and wait. Not line up and when you get bored take off.
Ha, Nearly choked on my cheese sandwich laughing! Thanks :-)
