By Lauren Rosenblatt Seattle Times staff reporter Nearly a week after a panel blew off an Alaska Airlines 737 MAX 9 aircraft midflight, lawmakers and federal regulators are starting to look to the Boeing plane’s troubled history to understand what happened — and what didn’t. On Thursday, fingers started pointing. The Federal Aviation Administration announced
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Alaska Airlines pilot mistakes taxiway for runway at Sea-Tac
By Steve Wilhelm – Staff Writer, Puget Sound Business Journal Dec 29, 2015 An Alaska Airlines passenger jet landed on Seattle-Tacoma International Airport’s central taxiway – not the runway – on Dec. 19, the fourth time a pilot has made the error in the history of the airport. Nobody was hurt in the 8:33 a.m.
Tango Taxiway: A history of mistaken landings and almost landings at Sea-Tac
By Steve Wilhelm – Staff Writer, Puget Sound Business Journal Dec 31, 2015 For 16 years pilots have mistaken Seattle-Tacoma International Airport’s most prominent taxiway for a runway, landing on it four times and narrowly avoiding landing on three other occasions. Most recently an Alaska Airlines (NYSE: ALK) pilot landed a Boeing 737 on the