AA Plane Skids Off Runway In Providence

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WARWICK, R.I. -- An American Airlines plane skidded off a runway connector this morning at TF Green Airport in Warwick. No one was injured.

Crews are trying to move the plane back onto the connector. The plane was bound from Green to Dallas-Fort Worth.

An Associated Press photographer aboard the plane said passengers didn't know the plane had skidded off until the pilot informed them.

The photographer says passengers are being taken off the plane from the tail section, because crews want to lessen the weight to move it back on to the connector.

Flight 501 was due to leave at 7:15 a.m. Monday, with more than 100 passengers. It has been delayed due to a backlog caused by the winter storm in the area.




One question- what do they mean by a "runway connector"?
 
Excuse me for this: LOL! The passengers didn't know until the pilots told them? Don't they look outside the window?
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good question! and i think they mean "taxiway" for runway connector...

or the little section between the main taxiway and the runway.
 
If the nosewheel departed the taxiway, I wouldn't be suprised if the passengers had no idea.
 
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Excuse me for this: LOL! The passengers didn't know until the pilots told them? Don't they look outside the window?
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The article also says that it was delayed due to winter storms (ie. snow) so they might not have been able to see too much. But I have to say I got a bit of a laugh when I read that too, just think of your reaction to a PA that said you had gone off the taxiway and had to deplane. I bet you would have looked out the window closer then!
 
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The article also says that it was delayed due to winter storms (ie. snow) so they might not have been able to see too much.

[/ QUOTE ]The visibility was about 2 miles when this happened
 
Now it's officially winter.



(We used to say at Eagle that it wasn't officially winter until AA slid one off a runway. Seems they were always doing that early every winter........ Not that I'm bashing AA in anyway, I did work there too!)
 
Sounds like the airplane actually went off a taxiway, and if that's the case this wouldn't surprise me a bit. Runways are typically pretty well plowed in winter but the taxiways get short shrift so you're left making your best guess of where to go. I recall one snow-covered day at EWR (at my prior job) where we taxied to Signature and I have no idea whether we were on taxiways or just wandering across grass. The controllers didn't care either ... as long as you were off their runways, get to your ramp any way you could.
 
Every year it seems like Providence, Portland, Bangor or Bradley!

Crew scheduling tried to inverse assign me a few years ago because someone ran a 72 off the taxiway in PWM but needed convincing that I wasn't able to get from Fresno to Atlanta in an hour. GT grads...GRRR.
 
You have people who can't schedule peoplerly!!!!

Gimme the job - I'm awesome at that, did scheduling in manufacturing for over 6 years - I love looking at and playing around with schedules, it is such fun trying out loads of combinations - but they didn't know it'd take you more than an hour to get from Fresno to ATL - BADD!!!! they shouldn't be there!!! - get rid and get someone who knows some geography in.
 
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