{"id":5976,"date":"2006-03-30T17:01:47","date_gmt":"2006-03-30T17:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grayblog.co.uk\/2006\/03\/wrong-runway-is-no-joke\/"},"modified":"2006-03-30T17:01:47","modified_gmt":"2006-03-30T17:01:47","slug":"wrong-runway-is-no-joke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/2006\/03\/30\/wrong-runway-is-no-joke\/","title":{"rendered":"Wrong runway is no joke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone seems to be treating <a title=\"BBC News\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/northern_ireland\/4859716.stm\" target=\"_blank\">this story<\/a> as a bit of a joke &#8211; a pilot landing on the wrong runway seems like a cause for mirth, with passengers recounting amusing anecdotes of finding themselves in the middle of an army base. But I think people are missing the point.<\/p>\n<p>The pilot had no clearance to land his aircraft at the army base. If, as he&#8217;d been bringing the aircraft in to land, there had been another aircraft on the runway, or a vehicle crossing it or even some fixed object in the way, the consequences could have been disastrous for all concerned &#8211; it certainly wouldn&#8217;t have been one of those &quot;And finally&#8230;. [chortle!]&quot; stories.<\/p>\n<p>Clearly, either the systems need to be improved to ensure that this sort of error can not occur again, or the existing systems need to be more rigorously enforced. I guess we will have to wait until the outcome of the enquiry to find out which is the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone seems to be treating this story as a bit of a joke &#8211; a pilot landing on the wrong runway seems like a cause for mirth, with passengers recounting amusing anecdotes of finding themselves in the middle of an army base. But I think people are missing the point. The pilot had no clearance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}