Houston, we have a problem...
 

Hawker and Citation collide at runway intersection.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANJq5wBaXmE

Wow. Nice work getting that back on the ground. Split second from catastrophe.

Be careful out there.

FAA tweeted that the Hawker took off without clearance. Ouch.

It doesn't get any closer than that. Pure luck the airborne aircraft was still flyable. Just pure dumb luck.

I don't know if this was a factor but Corporate Operators are having a hard time finding and keeping pilots at a time when someone can hold Captain and make $300K+/yr with just a year's seniority at UAL and Delta.
Some are really having to scrap the bottom of the barrel.

Is it just me, or did that alfalfa pilot have a bit of an attitude after (allegedly) DEPARTING WITHOUT CLEARANCE?

"We can't do that.... YOU GUYS cleared somebody to takeoff or land, and we hit 'em"

Nothing like a good offense!

I'm tellin' ya', man... mushrooms and planes don't mix.

So, not only did these pilots take off without a clearance, but they missed two calls to stop their takeoff roll because they were "distracted" by a rudder bias alert, as well as a pitch trim alert.....that they decided to fix on the roll. GA in a nutshell.

https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/347213

Seems they were distracted to the point of taking off without clearance by :"As the airplane began the left turn to be perpendicular to the runway, they stated the V-speeds were no longer on the display screens.".
And subsequently missed those abort calls because they had 2 failures.
And still decide to continue the take off.


I did about 7 years of ACMI abroad, and 8 in 91k, currently 10+ in 121. Flew with 1 guy that this would have happened to, when I started flying 25 years ago, as a very junior FO. That is still 1 too many, but I don't think this would be normal in 135.