Craziest Moment

jarhead0863 · Posted: 03-23-2010, 01:54 PM

I did a quick search and could not find anything relating to this topic. For you controllers, what was one of your craziest moments while controlling traffic?

GLF5 · Posted: 03-23-2010, 04:03 PM

When an aircraft stacked it into the runway.

noid · Posted: 03-23-2010, 04:44 PM

When the first plane I talked to after getting checked out had its nose-gear collapse, slide down the runway and stop in the intersection closing the field for a few hours.

meatasaurusx · Posted: 03-23-2010, 05:17 PM

Runway changes tend to fall into this category

MIAvectors · Posted: 03-23-2010, 08:56 PM

I once talked to 2 airplanes at the same time... it was ridiculous. I still have nightmares to this day.

duranme · Posted: 03-23-2010, 09:32 PM

this one time, the tower called AND jax center at the same time... i totally forgot about my interphone priorities.

mtlatc · Posted: 03-23-2010, 09:40 PM

polo and duranme have great responses. I'm going with 11 September 2001.

duranme · Posted: 03-24-2010, 03:42 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mtlatc

I'm going with 11 September 2001.

we can go ahead and close this thread now...

towerflower · Posted: 03-24-2010, 10:22 AM

Working at FLL at the time and the airport decided it was a good idea to hold an airshow on the south side of the airport over 9R and keep the airport open with only the north runway, 9L, available to non-airshow traffic. Airshow traffic departed on R13 and depending on the type landed on 9R or 13. Most taxiways on the airport were closed for the show. Which made it a most interesting day to get the commerical jets in and out and mixed up for the various intrail restrictions. You had to be very creative to get it done and if you weren't the traffic backed way up. After that first one the airport moved the show to over the beach.