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An Uzbekistan Airways plane was landing at Ben Gurion International Airport when an El Al jumbo stood on the runway on which the Uzbek plane was to touch down. The two aircraft were close to collision, when an air traffic controller noticed what was about to happen, and instructed the Uzbek plane to fly on for another circuit before landing.
Adv. Yitzhak wrote in the report that even though the control tower sent a fax immediately after the incident to the chief investigator, classifying the incident as medium severe, the El Al crew only sent a report the following day after completing a flight to New York. Their fax did not indicate the severity of the incident, which is against procedures.
Adv. Yitzhak found that the air traffic controllers at the airport worked perfectly in this instance, and the alertness of the controller prevented an accident.
El Al declined to respond to this report.
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Jun 17, 2009 at 05:34 PM Anonymous Says:
What's going on with all these so called close crashes at ben guion aiport???
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Jun 17, 2009 at 06:31 PM Anonymous Says:
I flew into TLV via Lufthansa. While I always feel the aproach is long and roundabout the pilot aborted and flew around. He later explained that the landing strip was not yet clear of traffic and depite being cleared Lufthansa rules prohibit landing in such a case.
It seems that there is too much laxity going on at TLV.
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Jun 17, 2009 at 09:36 PM well Says:
“ What's going on with all these so called close crashes at ben guion aiport??? ”
well at least get the name right
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Jun 17, 2009 at 09:35 PM Anonymous Says:
eeeerie.. I just finished watching the first episode of 24 season 7. The same thing just happened. Oooh, I'm getting suspicious. Any else know what I'm talking about?
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Jun 17, 2009 at 10:48 PM Anonymous Says:
Regarding number 4 I think its time u grow up and not be so proud that u watch 24! U dond have 2 advertize that tony allmost made 2 planes crash I mean plz do domething with ur life!!
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Jun 18, 2009 at 12:36 AM frum pilot Says:
Does the report address what the reason the plane was still in the taxi way? Elal was blamed for the report being wrong, but what about the plane being there?
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Jun 18, 2009 at 08:30 AM Kruma Litvak Says:
good question #6, any answeres anyone???
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Jun 18, 2009 at 08:19 PM bigwheeel Says:
“ What's going on with all these so called close crashes at ben guion aiport??? ”
...some time ago, the Israeli equivalent of the FCC blamed the near misses at the airport on the Pirate radio stations. Specifically, it blamed Arutz Sheva for "stepping on" the Radio frequencies of the Control tower!
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Jun 21, 2009 at 02:02 PM Milhouse Says:
“ ...some time ago, the Israeli equivalent of the FCC blamed the near misses at the airport on the Pirate radio stations. Specifically, it blamed Arutz Sheva for "stepping on" the Radio frequencies of the Control tower! ”
Bull. A7 was nowhere near those frequencies. This is just a political attack.