Report: Teterboro leading larger airports in incursions
April 27, 2008
HACKENSACK, N.J. (AP) _ Teterboro Airport is leading many of the nation's larger airports in a dubious category.
From fiscal 2001 through fiscal 2007, Teterboro, which handles primarily private and corporate planes, had the sixth-highest number of incidents classified as "serious" incursions, or instances in which aircraft strayed into areas designated for takeoffs and landings. [Full Article]
Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We have a small problem.
All four engines have stopped. We are doing our damnedest to get them under control.
I trust you are not in too much distress. —Captain Eric Moody, British Airways Flight 9
I don't know enough about TEB, but isn't the airport kinda slow to have so many problems?
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Private pilots (not corporate) do not fly enough to maintain proficiency & are not normally well trained versed on ground procedures.Originally Posted by Phil D.
I worked an AOPA event & some of those private pilots are crazy, some, barely know ground hand signals.
“The problem with socialism is that you eventually,
run out of other people’s money.” - Margaret Thatcher
KTEB can get quite busy, especially during the midday hours. They have 554 operations/day on average, which is about half of the traffic of La Guardia.
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