Air traffic control blunder - wellington (NZ) international airport - 04 Nov 2009

An Air New Zealand Boeing 737-300 is on final approach into Wellington International Airport (New Zealand) when either air traffic control mis-clear the bombardier q300 pilot from his holding position onto the runway or else the pilot of the bombardier q300 was not obeying instructions to hold. And who says that this can't happen in New Zealand?!?

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• crash
• near
• miss
• bombardier
• q300
• air
• new
• zealand
• boeing
• 737
• 737-300
• wellington
• airport
• international

[jastheace999]

Hey mate, how did all your ATC testing go? I am quite interested in becoming a controller. What tower do you work at?

[downundervids888]

@jastheace999 Hey thanks for your comment, didn't end up doing it in the end. Working in a similar industry just not ATC. Still love flying though!

[flyboydan]

I'm a Wellington controller. The likely scenario is the Dash 8 (not an ATR) was not ready to depart in time so was told to vacate the runway and depart after the 737 lands!

[downundervids888]

@flyboydan hey, sorry about plane mix up...... why would the plane get on the runway without the controllers permission? isn't that like a BIG no no?

[grant199]

Simon

Is this your video?

[downundervids888]

@grant199 eh? not simon mate

[58biggles]

Please a 737 is NOT designated a HEAVY nor is the aircraft on the ground an ATR-72 but a Dash 8-Q300.

[AviationCEO]

You should rename this video clip. As you can see from the comments below from reputable aviation sources this video does not indicate an 'ATC blunder' but a day to day reality of 'pushing tin' at a busy airport. This clip could easily be named 'Air New Zealand blunder' but again for a very wrong reason.

As a businessman associated with a major airline, I would contest such slander on my profession intently.

Please correct this defamation being placed on professional, reputable ATC's.

[AviationCEO]

@downundervids888 What similar industry do you work in?

[milliondollervideos]

did the nz caa investagate this ? or this is this just another those shell be right kiwi things were no bugger takes resposability for a near disaster ? but still gets there big fat pay packet at the end of the week

[blackmamba2894]

the so called "ATR" is actually a dash 8 (748SE9RR) with a 30% reduction in tyre volume compared to the dash 8 (648SE9RT) please get facts right this is very irritating

[GrislyAndFriends]

waste of 3 minutes of my life.

[GOapeshit14]

@BrickUnit about $2k for a 737 to go around mate!