DAL has ASAP, and many other procedures in place for this. Let the details come out.

Why all the RJ v Legacy crap? You guys jump on us. Our guys jump on you now in response. We all make mistakes. Those who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones, or something like that.

As for the taxiway landing my question would be, was it intentional and if so was the tower notified. That makes a difference. They may have done it intentionally.

It's OK for mainline pilots to second guess a regional pilot and Monday morning quarterback....Not OK for regional pilots to do the same to the "best of the best"......This is a well established double standard in aviation....

FAIL. The gate would have been occupied. :D Oh wait.. this was in ATL not JFK.. my bad.

Hopefully not. I can see some training, but to fire them? Seems a little harsh to me.

Progressive? By who's diagnosis? The pilots have the responsibility to get the airplane on the ground safely. It doesn't matter if there was an outbreak of H1N1 and everyone was spouting snouts and pig ears in the cabin. Our job is not PANIC and do something to endanger the airplane the pax.

3 years ago, if you look at a similar incident with a CAL B757/300 landing on taxiway Z in EWR (when cleared to land on 29), both CA & FO aboard that flt kept their jobs & were back flying less than 6 months later.....just saw the CA 2 weeks ago.

If history repeats itself with status quo set with a similar occurrence mentioned above, I would guess it very likely that the DAL crew would keep their jobs after union wrangling & training events. Just my cent and a half.

Like ACL & others have said, let the facts of incident play out.

For once, I can agree with Joe: there should be no double-standard. Regionals and Majors need to be judged by the same criteria.

Let me repeat that: Regionals and Majors need to be judged by the same criteria. In all respects. The best way to do this is to have them be one and the same, and stop subsidizing a JV team. When pilots are ready for airlines, they need to be very carefully scrutinized, and placed on probation for an entry position at a major airline, with throrough HR departments, thorough Flight Ops vetting, and thorough training and evaluation, not at some alter-ego entity that has none of the above.

Then, they can evolve into a company that does the same across all employee groups, and fields the safest product, and best service available.

Our customers diserve no less.

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Sorry to interrupt the debate. Maybe someone can update us on the facts. We still know essentially ...nothing, right?

They got it on the ground!

Let the fact and the company and FAA actions come out for God's sake. It will be real clear what happened when it does.

I like how you Capitalize Mainline Everytime You Write it. It's mainline. And we are regional.

There is obviously arrogance in this forum. No one is perfect and we should all recognize this. My father was AA, and here we go I'll rag on them: landing at a military base, taking back off without takeoff clearance, and then landing at the correct airport without asking for landing clearance again. No one is blocked from a mistake.

What am I trying to say? Stay professional and constantly do a self check that reminds you that the MORE experience you get, the MORE COMPLACENT you get. Be diligent and don't forget we are all capable of complacency.

I AM NOT saying that this crew did anything wrong. Obviously we don't know enough to make that statement, and even THEN it would be wrong to say "what were they thinking?!". What was Comair thinking at Lexington, Pinnacle at 41,000 feet and "it's so cool duuude", so on and so forth. We work among unprofessional pilots and unfortunate pilots alike.

Silver2Gold - I would like to shake your hand for making an epic avatar. You just made my day! Doesn't get any more bad*** than that! :cool: