Southwest Plane Nearly Collides with Private Jet

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aim9xray said:
Audio and map at VasAviation:
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6Mp9aUJaTY

BlancoLirio (Juan Browne) Coverage at:
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6BLyJ2QiFY
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The investigation on this one is going to be pretty cut-and-dried, I think. ATC gives Flexjet instruction to cross 31L and hold short of 31C. FlexJet reads it back completely wrong, ATC corrects them, flexjet reads it back right, and then still fucks it up. And keeps rolling even after ATC starts yelling "hold short" at them. Southwest apparently was already going around even before ATC called Flexjet to stop.

There may be some contributing factors like the fact that 31C is a tiny runway (mostly for General Aviation) and maybe FlexJet thought 31C was 31L and the new taxiway Hotel (formerly Rwy 31R) was 31C. But there are 100% signs at every intersection with the names on them, so that's no excuse at all.
 
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Both pilots on the Learjet were also probably looking in the wrong direction, meaning that planning to T.O from 22L they didn't figure what direction the wind was blowing (otherwise they would have had their eyes locked on the runway approach direction).
It echoes the fact GRD reminded them the correct departure frequency.
Also TWR looks to be lagging behind the events (the youngest voice heard issuing instructions).
 
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Captain Steve on Instagram gave an excellent explanation of the event at Midway. The Flexjet guys got the request from 'pilot hell'. Call this number.
 

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