plane drops off radarThe last line in the quote scares me, how does a plane involved in almost the worse airline crash in history not have it's recording pulled before it was allowed to fly again? 60 ft from taking out all those planes on the taxi way is ridiculous.. I know there was another thread on this before, and someone had posted how they should have dialed in the runways frequency which would have told him he was off course.
The plane came within 59 feet — about the height of a passenger plane — before it pulled up to attempt another landing.
But the scariest new detail in the NTSB report is that investigators may have uncovered a blind spot in the airport’s radar system that delayed air traffic controllers from noticing last month’s near-miss.
For 12 seconds, the rogue jet dropped from radar when it approached the taxiway just before midnight.
Investigators could not hear what the Air Canada captain and co-pilot said to each other during the aborted landing because their conversation was recorded over when the plane made other flights, starting with a San Francisco-to-Montreal trip the next morning. Recorders are required to capture only the last two hours of a plane's flying time.
