Pilot error, bad lighting led to 2006 gaffe
The National Transportation Safety Board has concluded that pilot error and night lighting conditions led to a Continental Airlines plane landing on a taxiway instead of a runway at Newark Liberty International Airport back in 2006. According to an Associated Press report, the airliner weighed more than 200,000 pounds and had a wingspan of about 125 feet. Taxiway Zulu is about 75 feet wide, about half as wide as the adjacent Runway 29, and is less than 150 yards from an administration building. No one on Flight 1883 was hurt. The pilots underwent retraining and returned to duty.
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