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777 Image: Simon_sees from Australia
E190 Image: Eddie Maloney from North Las Vegas, USA
This is the story of the toronto near miss. On the 7th of march 2020, a controller started his shift at torontos pearson airport at 6:15 am local time. As the hours ticked by he went through various control positions and by 9:30 am he was in the controller position for both the north and south control towers. This meant that he was in charge of runways 05 and 06L. He didnt have a lot of inbound traffc but he had to deal with a lot of planes waiting to depart. At this time an air canada CRJ 190 was on the ground at pearson bound for denver. The ERJ 190 was a tiny plane in the grand scheme of things and had 87 people on board. The ERJ was cleared to line up on runway 06L. As the ERJ 190 was lining up with the runway, a boeing 777 was on the also following the ERJ. The air canada 777 had 359 people on board and was flying to halifax. Both planes were to take off from runway 06L within minutes of each other. Once the ERJ was on the runway and lined up the controller gave the ERJ the all clear. With takeoff clearance received the pilots of the ERJ pushed the throttles forward. The tiny nimble jet started to race down the runway as it picked up speed. As the plane was about to take off the first officer saw that a bird fly past his window, the pilots heard the bird hit the fuselage. The captain was concerned that the bird might get ingested into the left hand engine. If that were to happen then they'd lose the left hand engine. The E190 could climb out with just one engine but since they still were not past the point of no return the captain decided to reject the takeoff. Why risk stuff unnecessarily? The E190 at its fastest point reached 139 knots compared to the V1 speed or the speed at which they would be committed to this takeoff of 146 knots. As the E190 slowed down on runway 06L. Something almost unthinkable was happening. As the e190 was taking off the 777 had lined up on runway 06L, but for some reason the controller was not aware of the E190s rejected takeoff. The controller had cleared the massive 777 to takeoff from the same runway. At this point the E190 was 5000 feet from the threshold of the runway and accelerating rapidly and the giant 777 had just set off. The controller turned his attention away from runway 06L for a bit to tend to some planes that were coming into land on runway 05. Within seconds he turned his attention back to runway 06L. He looked at his screens and they showed no conflicts. Satisfied with the situation he now cleared the a waiting dash 8 onto a runway 06L. In the cockpit of the 777 the pilots had the shock of their lives, there right in front of them was the E190 that had rejected its takeoff, somehow it was still on the runway. The pilots knew that their V1 speed of 156 was still a ways away and they had no hope of getting the plane airborne in the time and runway that they had left. So the pilots initiated a rejected takeoff at 118 knots or 218 kmph or 135 miles per hour. The planes were now 5000 feet apart on the runway, the pilots of the 777 let the contorller know that they were conducting a rejected takeoff and the controller acknowledged. He then turned his attention to the departure end of the runway to vector the E190 that he thought had taken off a while back. But to his surprise he couldn't find it. To his shock he realized that the E190 had also rejected its takeoff and he now had two planes on the same active runway. But thankfully the 777 was able to come to a stop well short of the e190. the e190 was able to taxi to the terminal with no issues but the 777 had to wait 45 minutes for the brakes to cool as high speed rejected takeoffs can make the brake pads red hot. The entire kinetic energy of a massive jet is converted into mostly heat that makes sense. But planes are designed to be used like that from time to time. So its completely safe. The pilots had called up every bit of braking power that they had to stop the plane in time and good thing that they did cause if they hadn't this definitely could have been teneriffe 2.0. Finding out how two passenger jets came so close to crashing into each other is so important particularly because, ever since the days of tenerife we have added so many safety nets to make sure that something like this didn't happen and in this case it did for some reason and we are about to find out why. Whats interesting about this incident is how quickly everything went down. Within 36 seconds a normal takeoff of the ERJ 190 had gone to a near colliiosn. The thing about air traffic c