Re: Investigators detail how an American Airlines jet crossed a runway in front of a Delta plane at DEI sanctuary JFK

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The pilots of an American Airlines plane taxied across the wrong runway
last year in New York — into the path of another jetliner that was taking
off — after the captain became distracted and confused about takeoff
instructions and the co-pilot lost track of their plane's location,
according to documents released Monday.

Disaster was averted because an air traffic controller — using an
expletive — shouted at pilots of the other plane, a Delta Air Lines
flight, to abort their takeoff.

The National Transportation Safety Board released documents related to its
investigation of the Jan. 13, 2023, incident at John F. Kennedy
International Airport. The investigation is continuing, and the board said
it has not yet determined a probable cause for the close call.

The nighttime incident was among several close calls at U.S. airports that
alarmed the public and lawmakers and led the Federal Aviation
Administration to hold a “safety summit" last year.

The pilots of the London-bound American Airlines Boeing 777 took a wrong
turn on a taxiway alongside two perpendicular runways. The crew had first
planned for a takeoff from runway 31L. However, they later got
instructions from a controller and a message on their cockpit computer
telling them to taxi across 31L and take off from runway 4L.

In later interviews, “all three pilots (on the American Airlines plane)
said they understood at that time that (the flight) would be departing
runway 4L,” according to the NTSB.

Instead, they crossed 4L just as a Delta Boeing 737 began its takeoff roll
down the same runway.

The captain, Michael Graber, said that as the plane crossed the middle of
runway 4L, he saw red runway lights turn on — the lights warn pilots when
it's not safe to be on the runway.

“All of a sudden I saw that red glow and I just — right away I said
something — that ain’t right,” he told investigators. “I didn’t know what
was happening, but I was thinking something’s wrong.”

The captain added power to speed across.

Graber told investigators that he heard and understood the directions from
the controller but got distracted by a heavy workload and, in his mind,
might have gone back to thinking they were taking off from the other
runway.

The co-pilot, Traci Gonzalez, said she knew the entire time that they were
supposed to cross runway 31L, “but she was unaware of the airplane’s
position when the captain taxied onto runway 4L,” investigators wrote.
“She knew they were approaching a runway, but she did not realize they
were approaching runway 4L.”

The co-pilot also blamed distractions, including an unusually high number
of weather alerts.

The third person in the cockpit, Jeffrey Wagner, a relief pilot for the
long international flight, said he was “heads down” and didn’t know where
the plane was as it taxied on to the runway. He said that when they
crossed the wrong runway and he saw a plane to his right, he initially
thought it might be taxiing behind them.

The Delta pilots, warned by the air traffic controller, were able to brake
to a stop. The planes were never closer than about 1,000 feet (300 meters)
apart — not a comforting margin in aviation-safety terms.

A controller warned the American crew about a “possible pilot deviation,"
and gave them a phone number to call, which the captain did. After a
delay, they took off for London — this time on runway 31L. The crew did
not report the incident to American Airlines before taking off.

The cockpit voice recording from inside the American plane was taped over
during the six-hour flight to London and lost forever.

Investigators said they tried several times to interview the American
pilots, but the pilots refused on advice of their union, which objected to
the NTSB recording the interviews. The NTSB then took the highly unusual
step of issuing a subpoena to compel the crew members to sit for recorded
interviews.

The pilots’ union, the Allied Pilots Association, had no immediate comment
Monday on the NTSB documents.

The report renewed recommendations that the Federal Aviation
Administration require better preservation of cockpit voice recordings.
They run on loops that typically tape over old sounds after two hours. The
FAA finally bowed to NTSB pressure late last year, announcing that it
would propose that recordings not be overwritten for 25 hours — but only
on new planes.

https://news.yahoo.com/austin-airport-receives-tech-032759977.html