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2005 Logan Airport runway incursion

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WP:NOT#NEWS - A runway incursion happens when two airplanes become close to each other on the runway. Both of the airplanes took off hitting each other and there weren't even any injuries or damage. Also, runway incursions happen all the time. I don't see how this one is more notable than most incursions. We need to draw the line somewhere. If this one is kept, what's next? Near car accidents? Near train collisions? etc. Misplaced Pages is not a news sources, it isn't supposed to have every news story that an editor decides to write about.Tavix (talk) 23:00, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

  • Delete per nom, the event is given the notice it requires on a very small article on the award, and any other mention can happen in the Logan article. I am a little put off that this happened at my most travelled through airport, though! SGGH 23:30, 15 January 2009 (UTC)
  • Strong Keep Although I frown on the aviation geekery where someone creates an article every time there's an incident, this was a situation where a Tenerife type collision was avoided because of the quick action of the USAir pilot, who realized the tower's mistake as his jet was accelerating down the runway for takeoff -- at 167 miles per hour no less, according to the Boston Globe investigative report ; and he stopped about 60 yards from the other jet, which was going 198 mph. There's a good reason that the two airplanes took off without hitting each other. If you want to draw the line, draw it at those articles where the risk and the consequences were low, such as those "the-passengers-used-the-slides" incidents. Mandsford (talk) 23:59, 15 January 2009 (UTC)
  • Reply "Where the consequences were low". On a runway incursions, there are barely any consquences. No injuries, deaths, damage, etc., just a near miss. Sure it had to be investigated because the ATC didn't do their job, but that for WikiNews, not an encyclopedia. Tavix (talk) 00:22, 16 January 2009 (UTC)
  • Comment I find it odd that this is in some people's view more notable than the fatal article above. Go figure. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 02:23, 16 January 2009 (UTC)
  • Comment. I always try to avoid making ad hominem comments in discussions, but I must make an exception here and agree that by any objective standard it's incomprehensible that an editor could want to delete the article on the fatal crash in Russia but to keep this one. Phil Bridger (talk) 18:35, 16 January 2009 (UTC)
  • Reply Please re-read my nomination, I did not say there had to be deaths to make it notable. I am saying that it isn't suitable for Misplaced Pages as it is a news story. Tavix (talk) 00:51, 16 January 2009 (UTC)
Looking back on it, my choice of words was poor. In saying "consequences", I meant the potential damage rather than actual damage. In the case of one plane almost bumping into another as they're waiting for takeoff, the chances of an accident and the potential damage would both be low; in the case of a pilot avoiding a the collision of two jets that are both accelerating to the same intersection, the chances of a collision would be high and the potential damages would be high. I agree with Tavix that most of these Misplaced Pages articles about an NTSB incident should be deleted, but I submit that there are some instances where a near disaster would qualify -- the factors being how close one came to disaster and how bad the disaster would have been. Mandsford (talk) 01:45, 16 January 2009 (UTC)
  • Okay, thanks for the clarification, that assessment makes a lot more sense. I can see where your coming from with that, but I'm looking at it from a different angle where if no actual damage took place, I don't see a reason for a Misplaced Pages article. Tavix (talk) 01:55, 16 January 2009 (UTC)
  • Keep near disasters can also have notable consequences and be notable - we have an article, but I can't put my finger on it about the plane that ran out of fuel but landed safely on Tenerife or Azores or somewhere thereabouts. No one died; notable anyway. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 02:23, 16 January 2009 (UTC)
  • Keep Per a number of comments made here pointing to the serious and rare risk of collision and per multiple previous AfDs (I will link to some later, but am short of time ATM, although this article itself survived once before on no consensus at time when far less was getting past AfD than now). In particular, while incursions are common, incursions where two aircraft try to take off into each other are pretty rare. Most involve something crossing the runway miles away, a takeoff aborted in good time to avoid a baggage train, something like that. Blood Red Sandman 07:40, 16 January 2009 (UTC)
Sure, that's what all of us are planning to do this weekend. Mandsford (talk) 02:56, 17 January 2009 (UTC)
  • Strong Keep. This is an amazing story for anyone who remembers the Tenerife disaster in 1977. It's also an interesting article from the point of view of aviation safety and heroism. So what that it only has two sources; one of them is the NTSB report and that is a very reliable reference. In any case two sources is two more than many other articles have. Greg Kuperberg (talk) 18:12, 17 January 2009 (UTC)
  • Delete. Misplaced Pages is not a four year old newspaper. KleenupKrew (talk) 05:07, 19 January 2009 (UTC)
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