Southwest Airlines veers off runway Islip

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12-27-2012, 08:51 AM

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fireman0174

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Originally Posted by tsquare

Was the taxiway icy?

As the crow flies I live about 10 miles from KISP. It was raining at my house, not hard. Windy - 20 mph, maybe more.

No frozen stuff falling and nothing frozen on the ground as I was taking out the garbage about the time the event occurred.

12-27-2012, 09:03 AM

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Keep those taxi speeds up boys...really seems to be working out for ya

12-27-2012, 09:48 AM

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Originally Posted by hair-on-fire

It seems unlikely that would impact an incident at ISP...........

My bad. Not sure why I thought it was MDW after reading the excerpt.

12-27-2012, 09:53 AM

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6C at 0600L.
5C at 0700
5C at 0800

Above freezing for over 20 hrs. It wasn't icy.

12-27-2012, 09:56 AM

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Another captain vacancy has just opened up for a first officer.

12-27-2012, 11:12 AM

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Originally Posted by tsquare

Was the taxiway icy?

What does this have to do with what happened? Many of us moved our aircraft across icy taxiways yesterday. We didn't make the news because we respected the slick qualities of ice. My apologies to the crew if there was a simultaneous brake and tiller failure while the engines were stuck forward of idle.

12-27-2012, 11:28 AM

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V1 for some of us is taxi speed.

12-27-2012, 11:35 AM

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vagabond - it might have had everything to do with the incident *IF* it was icy. Your icy might have been different than their situation.

Temperatures above freezing for over 20 hrs and over 40 for several hours, seems to rule out icing.