Chinese Pilot Avoid Accident

[Flying Fox]

Normally travel news about China is all bad so when I read this article I thought it important to share -

Chinese pilot: Amazing footage of incredible save ona busy runway

Accident avoided and 439 lives not lost

When Chao saw the plane crossing his runway he quickly assessed that he could not avoid the collision, so he accelerated his plane to full thrust to take off sooner, missing the other jet by 19m. Once airborne Captain Chao continued the plane’s journey to Tianjin for a safe landing about 100 minutes later.

Great work!

 

[TomVexille]

It was brought up in "Ask The Pilot" a while ago.

I'm not convinced that it was the correct decision, but they certainly got away with it.

 

[moa999]

Would also be interesting to see whether they would have cleared it anyway (noting the co-pilot initially breaked).
Many narrowbodys use much less than half a long runway when departing...

That said it sure as hell shouldn't happen.

 

[moa999]

AvHerald report here.
Simulations have also shown the aircraft could have stopped with 400m to spare

Http://avherald.com/h?comment=49f37b96&opt=0

 

[Vamsee]

Applaud for He Chao. The Chinese character of his name is 何超.

 

[Quickstatus]

AvHerald report here.
Simulations have also shown the aircraft could have stopped with 400m to spare

Http://avherald.com/h?comment=49f37b96&opt=0

The problem is that all that analysis is after the fact. The pilot had to instantaneously make a decision. "Go or no go". I don't think he would have time to run some calculations to see whether he could have stopped.

I hope that the outcome of any investigation is to enhance pilot skills and safety and not to apportion blame.