Horizon lands on taxiway in PUW

Boris Badenov said:
Pfft. Thomas Paine was born in England! :)
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Founder of this place https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeroprakt was born in Russia, signed me off for the first solo, been a good friend for 10 years, and last we spoke back in 2014 he did say something about all the russians in the east being his enemies. Such is the nature of civil wars. That dude did work at Antonov before branching out into GA btw.

I've been to Antonov design bureau. Snuck in accidentally while being somewhat hung over and looking for the airshow they were having. Quite a story, actually. But now the place is a corpse of its former self, just like the rest of the inheritance that was cluelessly pi$$ed away. Not that you can pi$$ stuff away gracefully, but you get the idea. So yup, modern Antonov is a Ukrainian company. Too bad it's dead and the vast majority of the engineers ran off to the northern neighbor.
 
Well, now, this is interesting:

‘It’s a cover-up from the FAA at the highest level’: Cockpit voice recording can’t be used in investigation, source says
  • A top Federal Aviation Administration official has forbidden inspectors who are trying to determine why a Horizon Air commercial jet mistakenly landed on a Pullman, Washington, airport taxiway from reviewing “critical” evidence: recorded cockpit conversations between that flight’s pilots, a federal official familiar with the investigation said.
  • The directive came straight from John Duncan, FAA’s head of flight standards who is in charge of the agency’s flight inspectors across the country, said the source, who requested anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the probe.
  • “Oh man,” (U.S. Rep. Mark) DeSaulnier said by phone Friday. “What are they hiding? Why aren’t they being more forthcoming?”
 
Ok now this is interesting. The only reason the FAA would want something hidden is if somehow something the FAA is responsible for overseeing but were negligent in doing so could be found to be a causal factor.
 
Seriously, they screwed up, but I'm leery of the CVR being a public record in a situation like this. Admittedly "Don't fox up, or the world will hear about the gang-bang at the last layover" is a pretty good incentive to not fox up... but still.

-Fox
 
I'm confused who the source is. Is it someone at the NTSB saying that the FAA won't let them review the tapes? Or is it someone at the FAA? Or someone else who just wanted the tape and the FAA said no?
 
Incident = NO CVR
Accident = CVR

ITS THAT f'in simple...some dumbass has an agenda and got his feelz hurt when he got told no (or her/she...don't care).

This was an incident, just like Delta on Mike at ATL or Alaska on Tango at SEA...didn't see CVR stuff being argued about then.

The runway lights shorted out enroute, but not the taxiway. That's all the details I can give
 
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And Colgan in IAH with the nose gear

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thevideographer said:
I'm confused who the source is. Is it someone at the NTSB saying that the FAA won't let them review the tapes? Or is it someone at the FAA? Or someone else who just wanted the tape and the FAA said no?
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NTSB isn't involved. It's FAA inspectors doing their own probe. NTSB declined to investigate it.
 
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