While we occasionally see aircraft have incidents on the ground, this has to be one of the worse ones we’ve seen in quite some time (perhaps since a Delta A350 sliced the tail off a Delta Connection CRJ-900). I first covered this yesterday, but want to provide an update, as we now have the ATC…
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Plus Delta landing upside down at YYZ and it's been quite the year for the Delta. Glad no one was seriously hurt.
This one should be easy to solve.
Either a bad instruction by ground or an error in following an instruction by the crew.
Side note...if Endeavor is looking to retire the CR9's and get E170/5's then totalling airframes is an odd way if going about it.
It seems we have had more ground incidents this year than in the past. Where are the improvements we've been premised?
agree that the tapes should show what the ground controller said or didn't say but even if controllers were wrong, it is hard to understand how the pilots of the aircraft w/ the nose damage didn't see the other aircraft. We are talking about taxi speeds.
There is no such thing as “Removing humans” bro, who do you think writes the programs for such “Controls”.
Please engage brain cell before attacking your keyboard, yes?
"To state the obvious" this happened on the first day of a federal government shutdown, when air traffic (and ground) controllers are being required to work without pay.
Delta talks like they are a premium airline and they can't even hire pilots that can control their planes on the ground. Delta is getting worse. United has passed them. Southwest would have passed them if the Elliott changes never happened. American is gaining fast, especially with the latest AA press releases.
Delta now has two less planes in their fleet...
So Delta Whomever you are ….
Note the Airlines World Rankings 2025.
Delta 22
United 51
Southwest 76
American 83
You are invited to reconsider the content of your post, yes?
Hopefully Scott Kirby will touch on all these DL ground incidents (and subsequent decline of a formerly “premium” airline) on his next UA quarterly results call.
These are not Delta mainline pilots, nor Delta mainline aircraft. Delta Connection.
Delta will brush it off and say it's an Endeavor Air incident like they did with the YYZ case, like Endeavor is some kind of third party operator that is anything but "Delta".
Welp...as I said yesterday...this one was easy.
Turned out to be pilot error.
Now the question is...what caused the error?
Was he distracted?
New to the airfield?
Inadequate CRM?
The incompetence of ATC people is just getting ridiculous. It's a great opportunity for Trump to clean up the mess with this shutdown since that these people don't deserve a job anwyay.
Give me three instructions at 10pm after a long day, with the third being the first to follow, and I'm likely to make a mistake also. Glad I'm not a pilot.
Just curious
I am trying to parse, from the vasaviation video, the tower says:
Endeavor 5155, Ground 13, taxi Alpha, Echo, and hold short of 4. At Mike give way to company
https://resources.globalair.com/dtpp/globalair_00289ad.pdf
Taxi Alpha, Echo, hold short of 4 = what is echo and what is 4?
Not Delta mainline pilots is totally meaningless. There were likely passengers that saw the name Delta and had confidence.
We are paying for the sins of Biden and Buttigeg.
The chickens have come home to roost.
Exactly. Trump should fire all the air traffic controllers, shut down the airports, close the borders, and confiscate passports. At least then Americans wouldn’t be able to export their dumbness abroad — and for once, the world might actually applaud a trump decision. 🙂
4 is the runway (runway 4/22). Echo is the taxiway that crosses it about halfway down.
He's giving them a taxi instruction to the active departure runway, 13, following taxiway Alpha and then turning on to taxiway Echo. On Echo, they are instructed to hold short of the intersecting runway 4, which would be used for arriving traffic.
Nah, you can’t blame the Autopen anymore. Anything you don’t like now is on #47, and his enablers, alone.
That was exactly my thought; fortunately, Delta appears to be owning-up to this. Even so, it’s just an accident.
And if you recall, the last shutdown in 2019 ended when the NYC-area controllers ‘called out sick’ en-mass, practically ending that one. So, time to… do that again!
Hi Tim, one of the ‘Readers of Gary Leff’ convinced me to have a look at OMAAT. Glad to see you here.
Is there a fake Julie? Like the one that attacks Tim at VFTW? Who’s the real REAL one…
There is no fake Julie, there is only one real Julie with split personalities due to my paranoid schizophrenia, which causes me to hallucinate and rage on the internet.
Yeah, that'd show 'em who's boss, and make the president more popular than ever.
2:22 in the YouTube video. That's our old friend, "fuel management is your priority, not mine", right?
The incompetence of Russian trolls is just getting ridiculous. It's a great opportunity for Putin to clean up the mess with his autocracy since those people don't deserve a job anyways.
Listening to the audio, the landing aircraft was told to exit on XRAY then right turn on ALPHA and to the gate. Since taxiway X is an "exit" from the runway, that aircraft had another aircraft landing behind him and needed to keep moving. Shortly thereafter, the other aircraft was told to taxi via ALPHA..blah blah to the takeoff runway. "Give way" means to do..JUST THAT.