| ▲ | shrx 5 hours ago |
| Still, the runway could be reserved for landing aircrafts only, still preventing access to all other types of vehicles. |
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| ▲ | danso 5 hours ago | parent [-] |
| How are fire trucks supposed to respond to incidents involving airplanes, as it appears this case involves, if the runway is off limits to them? |
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| ▲ | nradov 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | The way it's supposed to work, the ground controller first verifies that there are no traffic conflicts before clearing vehicles to cross an active runway. | | |
| ▲ | bombcar 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Which is exactly what failed here, so saying "it shouldn't fail by not failing" doesn't help terribly much. Having grade-separate crossings for vehicles might, but that introduces new issues (plane skidding off runway could hit the incline and break up). | | |
| ▲ | selectodude 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | O’Hare has those but it’s not helpful for emergencies that happen on the runway itself. |
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