Company Watch - United Airlines.Jul 23, 2007 A Delta jet that was involved in a near collision on an airport runway had already landed when controllers ordered it to take off again to avoid a United Airlines plane in its path, federal investigators said. The tower controller noted that the Airbus A320 was going too fast to hold short of 9L and told the ground controller to tell it to stop. The aircraft stopped on 9L 30 ft. from the runway centerline cen·ter·line n. 1. A line that bisects something into equal parts. 2. A painted line running along the center of a road or highway that divides it into two sections for traffic moving in opposite directions, or, in the case of . The Delta flight that was touching down was ordered to do a go-around and became airborne, clearing the United jet by less than 100 ft., tower controllers reported. NTSB NTSB abbr. National Transportation Safety Board said that the United crew claimed they missed the turn on Taxiway taxiway: see airport. B. US FAA classified the incident a pilot deviation. The wheels of Delta Airlines Flight 1489 had already touched down when an air traffic controller at Ft. Lauderdale runway warned the pilot to pull up. The pilot accelerated and was able to get back in the air, narrowly missing United Flight 1544. Pilot error by the United crew was the cause of the near collision, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the FAA. Jul 19, 2007 United Airlines, which won the US Dept. of Transportation's 2007 competition and launched daily Washington Dulles-Beijing service in March, said it will file an application to operate daily San Francisco-Guangzhou flights in 2008--the first nonstop HP's brand name for its fault-tolerant servers, which range in size from four CPUs to 4,000 CPUs. The NonStop line was created by Tandem Computers, which was acquired by Compaq, which later became part of HP. service from the US to that Chinese city--aboard a 253-seat Boeing 777 and a daily Los Angeles-Shanghai service the following year aboard a 347-seat 747. United Airlines said Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. is the largest US city without nonstop Chinese service by a US carrier. "Our East meets West proposal is simple. Add capacity to those urban areas with the least service and most pressing demand," Senior VP Michael Whitaker Michael Whitaker (born March 18 1960) is a British Olympic equestrian rider, who competes in the sport of show jumping. Biography Younger brother of John Whitaker, Michael Whitaker began competing on ponies at the age of 7 years. said. Jul 18, 2007 United Airlines yesterday said it will accept applications for approximately 100 new pilot positions expected to be filled this year--the first such additions since 2001. "We're investing in our business, and our expansion in international markets enables us to add to our team," VP-Flight Operations Hank Krakowski said. New hires will begin training at UA's Denver training center as early as October and are scheduled to be flying by year end, the airline said. Jul 17, 2007 US National Transportation Safety Board is investigating a runway incursion A runway incursion as defined by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) on April 27, 2006 is: Any occurrence at an aerodrome involving the incorrect presence of an aircraft, vehicle, or person on the protected area of a surface designated for the landing involving United Airlines and Delta Air Lines jets that took place July 11 in Fort Lauderdale Fort Lauderdale (lô`dərdāl), residential, commercial, and resort city (1990 pop. 149,377), seat of Broward co., SE Fla., on the Atlantic coast; settled around a fort built (c.1837) in the Seminole War, inc. 1911. in which the aircraft came within less than 100 ft. vertically of each other. According to NTSB, the event occurred at about 2:30 p.m. The crew of UA Flight 1544, an A320, received taxi clearance from the terminal to Runway 9L via Taxiway T7. At the same time, DL 1489, a 757, was inbound from Atlanta for a landing on 9L. Jul 16, 2007 Editorial eMail: edit@AirGuideOnline.com For Air Transport & Travel Business Experts contact our Director of Content Aram Gesar eMail: bizintel@AirGuideOnline.com For more global news, reviews, features and analysis, please subscribe to Verb 1. subscribe to - receive or obtain regularly; "We take the Times every day" subscribe, take buy, purchase - obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction; "The family purchased a new car"; "The conglomerate acquired a new company"; our Newsletters: http://www.airguideonline.com/order_formsubs.htm#news To Advertise: advert@AirGuideOnline.com AirGuideFlightTracker is a new service that keeps travelers informed on flight and airport status via the Web. For more go to http://www.airguideonline.com/airline_tracker.htm Copyright [c] 2007 Pyramid Media Group / Air Travel Media. All rights reserved. |
|
||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion