The Philadelphia airport control tower reported Thursday that an Eastern Airlines jet took off from a taxiway instead of the runway parallel to it.
Among the alternatives, he said, would be to fill in part of Jamaica Bay and construct a new runway parallel to the existing runway used by the giant trans-Atlantic passenger jets.
After completing the go-around, which entails circling the airport again, the pilot landed safely on the runway parallel to the taxiway.
Two new runways are also planned: a 3000 m runway parallel to the current north south runway and a 3000 m runway south of the current east west runway.
Meanwhile, the resort's quaint but outdated international airport -- which had a runway paralleling a white picket fence, a golf course and the sea -- closed in December.
If the airport has more crossing runways than parallel runways, it was mapped to ORD.
Although a taxiway and a runway are parallel pieces of concrete on the airfield, it's extremely uncommon for something like this to happen.
This included the north−south runway, a parallel taxiway (Taxiway J), a parking apron, the Arch Hangar, a base operations building, a control tower, a power plant, a 250-person barracks (which would later become Building 6000), a water supply system, and a railroad spur to the base (now part of the Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway).
About 95% of flights take off and land into the prevailing westerly/west-southwesterly (W/WSW) onshore winds (i.e., 263 degrees, the direction of runway alignment) using two sets of parallel runways separated by about 1.5 km.
It provides taxiway access to Nashville International's three parallel runways and crosswind international runway.
