Extremely Dangerous Takeoff at Boston Intl Airport - Aer Lingus 132 and US Airways 1170

[@pocho689]

An aerial view and an indication of the two runways being accessed would be helpful. As well, a show of the speed that they were advancing towards the intersection.

[@Hawker900XP]

US Airways has been credited with a number of saves. This one, the Rhode Island incident and the Hudson River.

[@jkryanspark]

Imagine if the Aer Lingus pilots, seeing the US Airways jet coming toward the intersection, also decided to 'stay down.' They would have had a ground collision. That both sets of pilots chose different courses of action is sheer serendipity. The shamrock on the Airbus's tail fin did its job.

[@gusmc01]

I *think* Aer Lingus was already airborne which is why the US Airways pilot elected to stay down.

[@shibukurian79]

​​@@gusmc01no actually the "keep it down" statement by the copilot of USair crew was made at 08:05:12 when the shamrock was still 4 seconds away from V1 Speed. The shamrock rotated 7 seconds before the USair's late rotation. Using this math we can confirm that the shamrock was still on the ground when the USair decided to stay down and that the USair pilots were judgementally aware that the are lingus was rotating anyway.

[@richardshiggins704]

Excellent graphics as usual . Well done US Airways . As for Aer Lingus it would seem a very good idea to name their planes after saints . On a wing and a prayer !

[@jameslimburn4210]

Hella lucky the us airways pilots were paying attention to the intersecting runway at V1 when the pilot monitoring is usually on the instruments…

[@barryvincentredmond3973]

What a close shave.Luckily the US Airways pilots avoided rotation at the same moment as the Aer Lingus jet and yet had just enough runway lenght left to take off successfully.Scary near miss.!.

[@johnkirk7796]

I was on a TWA 707 at San Francisco Airport June 1975. The plane had just started the take-off roll when the pilot brought the plane to stop. Another jet flew over us, the sound was rather loud. After a short delay the pilot after making a comment to the passengers safely took-off.

[@johntaylor5968]

Usual problem, ATC under far to much pressure, aviation industry squeezes every last drop out of everybody. It’s disgusting.

[@JOHSONH]

Excelente capi mauri muy buena imágenes y información saludos 🎉✈️🦾🙏🙌 Bendiciones

[@marcmcreynolds2827]

FWIW once US Airways had crossed the intersection and achieved VR, they were good to go. Delaying liftoff until almost the end of the runway, which is about another three thousand feet past the intersection, risked exceeding the rated speed of the tires.

[@davidbarcelata7282]

No encuentro la versión en español de esta reconstrucción, ¿la bajaste o algo así? :(

[@GBEdmonds-j1i]

Ya, without incident with the exception of the long line of the use of the lavratory to change the skid marks in everyones drawers!!! 😮😮😮😮😮😮.......holy shit that was to close!!! Common ATC!!!!

[@jourwalis-8875]

Was the departure from the USA or from Ireland?

[@roberthenry9319]

It is rather clear from the headliner and from watching and listening to the video that this happened at Logan International in Boston. Boston is in the USA, if that helps you to know which country this occurred in.

[@jamest2401]

Your animations are SO unbelievably ‘off-the-charts’ excellent; more than comfortably resting within the ‘utterly phenomenal’ category, that if you actually audibly narrated your content; and I mean human voiced, which is always more personable and compelling than a totally weak, cheesy, chintzy AI robot narration, then your channel would be incontestably the KZbin equivalent of ‘Oscar Gold’. I’m not being hyperbolic, man, you would absolutely put all the other aviation disaster channels to miserable and mortifying contemptible shame. It’s just something to think about. And even an accented English narration would be completely acceptable, in fact, for me, it can often be more endearing than our ubiquitous, sometimes insipid American accent. Growing up in the Los Angeles area, I have that standard, generic, nondescript American accent. However, some of the regional US accents can add a bit of flair. Basically what I’m trying to say is, don’t sweat it, whatever it is.

[@MPCFlights]

Thank you. The reason I don't narrate is because it'd be a different kind of video and not a reconstruction/simulation of the crashes. The idea is that the viewers feel they're just there in the plane.

[@roberthenry9319]

@@MPCFlights That makes sense. Please just keep your videos as you have them.

[@janegotelli7152]

How did anyone know to film all this?

[@hj8272]

What film?

[@RickTheClipper]

Lesson learned, avoid Boston. What Dr. Evil creates intersecting runways? Such issues happen way to often at US airports (NYT)

[@marcmcreynolds2827]

Blame it on God, who created wind directions that shift around more in some places (BOS) than others (LAX). North America has less than 8% of the world population, but nearly 40% of the worldwide airline traffic. So high operations density is likely part of the reason for "way too often". An airport elsewhere, with intersecting runways but relatively sparse operations, would be less likely to experience a conflict.

[@57Jimmy]

Actually I think it’s the fact that they allowed TO and LDG on two intersecting runways!

[@cogitoergospud1]

Uhm, 90% of airports have intersecting runways, lol.

[@marcmcreynolds2827]

@@cogitoergospud1 Even if an airport had near-infinite land area to work with (e.g. DEN), spreading out several runways having different headings so that none intersected would create other safety hazards. For example, tire overheating from extra-long taxi distances, and delayed emergency identification/response.

[@pepsidog5670]

Can you do Aer lingus Flight 712? If thats okay.

[@MPCFlights]

I'm going to investigate it thanks

[@oneworldawakening]

From some other reconstruction, I recall that the US Airways pilot came back with a funny parting quip after their takeoff, but I can't remember what it was. Cool as a cucumber, though.

[@WendyKS93]

Fantastic monitoring and quick thinking on the part of those US Airways Pilots. Thank goodness a disaster was averted. Now I know to avoid Boston.

[@michaelstearnes1526]

Please do a video on the 1948 Air France Paris to U.S. via The Azores disaster which took the lives of violinist Ginette Neveu and boxer Marcel Cerdan. The French declared a day of mourning.

[@DavidClinely]

SURE, it's unknown if there were disciplinary actions taken against the controller responsible for this incident. That's a slick way of saying that the controller GOT AWAY with this negligent action that should have NEVER happened had the controller been paying simple attention.

[@wes11bravo]

Wow.

[@WoBlink1961]

I wonder what words the captain of the US Airways flight *actually* used when he "reported the incident"...??? :D

[@billolsen4360]

#*?!!+

[@ianhereinaz1]

I hope the controller was given that number to call!

[@hounddog946]

My ex-girlfriend’s current boyfriend’s brother’s roommate’s cousin’s golf buddy’s girlfriend’s abortion doctor’s nurse’s rehab counselor’s neighbor’s dominatrix’s pharmacist almost took the US Air flight

[@DeadlyKiss000]

What a bit of luck the co pilot saw the other plane out of the cockpit window! Could have been another Tenerife! Well done to everyone!

[@jsmariani4180]

Imagine being a window seat passenger on either plane with full view of an impending collision.

[@billolsen4360]

I was on a flight like that leaving DFW in a little prop commuter plane in thick overcast. We came much too close to a 737 who was landing almost on top of us. Had never thought of 737 as huge planes until that day!

[@dareisnogod5711]

I did & I died of fright the next day.

[@ProJanitor]

W😮W

[@solowayfarer]

almost did a Tenerife

[@kevinmoffatt]

This will likely happen again unless technology installed to aid prevention.

[@HankPanky]

LOMG!

[@marks6663]

hard to believe the US air plane did not make any attempt to avoid reaching the intersection at the same time as the Aer Lingus. What if the Irish plane had not lifted off yet at that point? At least then the US Air plane would have not collided. Don't give me this V1 nonsense. That is for normal operation. Better to risk going off the end of the runway a bit, if at that, rather than collide at take off speed and create another Tenerife.

[@MeaHeaR]

OMG é PôWéŘ-PhÛľĽ Orrrsé-Strâylêans 😟😲😂😁😀😶😀😂😩😰😰😩😩😨😨😨😧😨😩😰😵😳😳😟😰😨

[@roberthenry9319]

I can see that you do not speak or write English. But trying to communicate with 26 stupid, senseless and juvenile emojis is....stupid, senseless and juvenile. Just write your comment in your native Slovakian or whatever and KZbin will translate it for us. Would love to know what you are saying to us.