10.31.2006

Missed? The runway?

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) -- Federal authorities are investigating how a jetliner carrying more than 160 people landed on a taxiway instead of an adjacent runway at Newark's Liberty Airport.

OK, in a way I can understand this. I once spent 30 minutes on a highway cloverleaf just outside Newark Airport trying to get to a hotel I could see the whole time. I just couldn't figure out which road led to it. (Turned out none did, but that's another story.) So it is a confusing place.

But airplanes are supposed to have pilots, aren't they?

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