CLOSE CALL! American Airlines Flight AA-2134 Aborts Takeoff to Avoid Collision 

As it should be.

Light gun…

There is always a potential for conflict.

( former commuter pilot) Back in my day, no one was cleared to land unless traffic was off the runway. And certainly not clearing someone to land at the outer marker, while another jet was on short final! The regulations were changed- and we are all less safe.

@@garytravis9347 After an aircraft has been cleared to land, there should be no departures or runway crossings on that or crossing runways until after the cleared aircraft has landed.

@@EricRush impossible. can’t be done. Traffic would come to a complete standstill

Agreed, it’s getting scary…

Not exactly. He didn't "forget about the King Air". He was fully aware of it but screwed-up the spacing. At least twice, the tower controlled include the King Air in his transmissions. The controller first alerted AA2134 when giving the line-up clearance, "... traffic 6 mile final." . The actual takeoff clearance to AA2134 was, “American 2134, winds 040 at 5. Traffic 4 mile final. Rwy 1, Cleared for takeoff.” The separation criteria that ATC uses for intersecting runways don't accommodate or apply well to every airport layout. This is a "judgement heavy business" where strict adherence to procedure can often fall short . . . and get you killed. He failed.

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@@the_flight_records Bravo sir :)

I have never understood why people use the term "near miss". It literally indicates they almost missed but instead collided. Kind of like calling a baseball sailing over the outfield wall a "near home run."

@@johnhtexasit’s when they came near each other but missed

Lol

They aborted at about 80kn. Takeoff of an A319 is usually I believe around 160kn depending on configuration, weight etc. on a 2200m takeoff roll. The fact the pilot said they need an engineering check as they aborted at 80kn probably means they were pushing the stop hard.

@@rainscratch Hey, thanks for the info! Do you have any estimation how much time that would have taken for the aircraft to accelerate from 80kn to 160kn?

@@w.ryanbutler8097 Hard to estimate but around 10-15 seconds if it aborted about half way.

I don't know V1 but I read somewhere else they reached 107kn

Actually only the best and most experienced work DCA. Looks like he lossed situational awareness

Wouldn’t be desperate if it was well paid and not a crappy job

@@Ndub1036 ATC is paid very well, with benefits

The hiring practice changed significantly in 2014. The following are excerpts from the FAA endorsed report "Barrier Analysis of the Air Traffic Control Specialists (ATCS) Centralized Hiring Process" dated May 8, 2013. From Page 19 Furthermore, current use of the AT-SAT is a barrier to RNO and gender diversity at the FAA. The following components of the AT-SAT are a barrier based on either race/ethnicity or gender: o Dials Test o Applied Math Test o Angles Test o The Letter Factory Test  The Letter Performance Scale o Air Traffic Scenarios Test (ATST)  ATST Efficiency Score  ATST Safety Subtest  ATST Procedures Scale o Analogies Test In addition, the decision to develop and use the highly qualified band [scoring 85 or higher] resulted in substantial reduction in minority and gender representation in the FAA from the application sources required to take this test. From page 132 Thus, at the very least, the ATST: Safety scale, the Analogies: Latency, Dials Subtest, Letter Factory: Situational Awareness, and Letter Factory: Performance should be removed from the computation of the AT-SAT composite score. From page 48, first paragraph The cutoff of 85 corresponds to those whose job performance was predicted to be above average. Those scoring below 85, but at least 70, have predicted job performance that is average From page 48, second paragraph More troubling, there is evidence that White applicants scoring 85 or higher on the AT-SAT over the last three years have generally been increasing (see Table 11). From page 153 Use of a highly qualified band creates RNO and gender diversity problems and is not justified. It is recommended that a cut score of 70 be used.

@@w.ryanbutler8097 why is there such a shortage then? They start out at 50k and every job offers benefits dude