This morning I was catching-up on news, this time on the web site of MSNBC, an American biased site, but still gives me an insight into what is happening out there where you are.
I spotted a headline Another close call for 2 jets at JFK airport, and jumped in to read it.
The article tells how for 12 – 13 years, the FAA have been trying to change the procedures of aircraft landing at JFK airport, as there was an accident waiting to happen. The old procedure involves the taking-off and landings on two perpendicular runways.
Then it nearly did, twice in fact. One plane had not cleared the area before another used it, in other words, two planes could have crashed, or there could have been an accident.
In the article by Associated Press, it was written:-
Laughlin said. “This is what we call, and what the FAA classifies, as a ‘proximity event.”‘
Why not use words that we humans use, “there was a cock-up”, a “near accident”?
I also read that The FAA ordered new procedures Friday afternoon to change the way takeoffs and landings on perpendicular runways are sequenced, or “terminated that perpendicular simultaneous approach procedure.”
The new procedures it was stated are designed to ensure “that aircraft of one runway clear out of the path of the other runway before the second flight comes down on the other runway.”
I do not think I will be flying to JFK, as I perhaps pilots and air traffic controllers will not quite understand the new procedures.
Use clear, clean language not gobble-de-goop.