Originally Posted by
Dirtdiver
It's not bashing SW. It's stating fact.
30 years of professional aviation, almost in two collisions, both were SW ignoring ATC instructions to hold short/give way.
You acknowledge Boeing taxi speed restrictions. Do you acknowledge that your pilots regularly blow them off?
DD,
I am not going to get into a back and forth with you. All I ask is please write it up and document it with the FAA. Otherwise it just might be an embellished story instead of a "fact" with no proof. We (SWA) have had incursions just like everyone else but to engage in conjecture alluding that it was intentional or that it was that close without documentation is useless.
I was cutoff by a 767 in PBI at the hold short line after hearing the controller tell them that we were to takeoff first. Did I make a big deal out of it? No, but the controller did. I wasn't stupid enough to assume they were going to stop and engage in a game of chicken either. My little 737 would have lost.
I will not acknowledge that any SWA pilot intentionally blows anything off just as a wouldn't accuse another carrier of the same thing without documentation and an investigation. I personally am not worried if you write us up and let the FAA investigate.
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