Orlando tower aborts Southwest takeoff roll on taxiway.

[arkavgal]

Southwest began a takeoff roll on a taxi parallel to the runway this morning. ATC aborted the takeoff this morning. I wonder how that happened?

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/southwest-flight-cancels-takeoff-after-crew-mistook-orlando-taxiway-runway-2025-03-20/#:~:text=Southwest%20flight%20cancels%20takeoff%20after%20crew%20mistook%20Orlando%20taxiway%20for%20runway,-By%20Reuters&text=March%2020%20(Reuters)%20%2D%20The,taxiway%20rather%20than%20the%20runway.

 

[ZapBrannigan]

Bet the conversation with dispatch after the reject was spicy

 

[Autothrust Blue]

Bet the conversation with dispatch after the reject was spicy

Is this more or less awkward than rejecting for HONK! HONK! HONK!

 

[ZapBrannigan]

Is this more or less awkward than rejecting for HONK! HONK! HONK!

I'm gonna say more

 

[derg]

Is this more or less awkward than rejecting for HONK! HONK! HONK!

Aww, cheese!

 

[derg]

I'm gonna say more

 

[Autothrust Blue]

Aww, cheese!

Look the paint was worn off around that breaker one fine day…anyway.

I'm gonna say more

I would agree.

 

[KLB]

Careful out there folks...the transportation secretary says he's yanking "licenses" of anyone who makes a mistake.

 

[Autothrust Blue]

Careful out there folks...the transportation secretary says he's yanking "licenses" of anyone who makes a mistake.

It wasn’t a mistake. It was an alternative means of compliance.

 

[BlueMoon]

Careful out there folks...the transportation secretary says he's yanking "licenses" of anyone who makes a mistake.

Wonder if he’ll make a reality TV show out of it.

 

[Autothrust Blue]

Wonder if he’ll make a reality TV show out of it.

Commentary re: Judge Judy vs. ALJs here, maybe?

 

[KLB]

Wonder if he’ll make a reality TV show out of it.

Make a FAA Disciplinary board and put it on tv where the Secretary of Transportation is the head of it. It would be a televised spectacle where at the end he tells someone to ceremoniously bring him the scissors and present them to him to cut up "licenses".

 

[Roger Roger]

Been to MCO a bunch, didn’t realize there’s that dual parallel taxiway setup by the inboard east runway. I imagine that’s where they made their oopsie.

 

[Autothrust Blue]

Make a FAA Disciplinary board and put it on tv where the Secretary of Transportation is the head of it. It would be a televised spectacle where at the end he tells someone to ceremoniously bring him the scissors and present them to him to cut up "licenses".

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[nocturnalaviator]

Been to MCO a bunch, didn’t realize there’s that dual parallel taxiway setup by the inboard east runway. I imagine that’s where they made their oopsie.

Can’t. I. Just. Can’t.

 

[ahw01]

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In the style of the Running Man, our first contender is Dank Gryhard.

 

[Skåning]

Careful out there folks...the transportation secretary says he's yanking "licenses" of anyone who makes a mistake.

Then they’re gonna start yanking our Costco cards!

 

[ahw01]

Then they’re gonna start yanking our Costco cards!

What do you mean certificates don’t have expiry dates? #retrograde

 

[DropTank]

Fire the crew.

That's Air China level of incompetence.

 

[MikeD]

What runway number were they looking at when they taxied to line up? Were there no other planes on the taxiway?