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<\/a><\/p>\nJAPAN-BASED C-130 PILOT<\/strong><\/p>\n Honolulu airport had two runway incursions in the fiscal year that ended Oct. 1, 2006, and three in the year to Oct. 1, 2005, Gregor said.<\/p>\n The FAA lists the latest runway incursion as occurring on Sunday. But air traffic controller Gurule said it was definitely 7:44 p.m. Saturday night.<\/p>\n The C-130 pilot was based out of Japan, Gurule said.<\/p>\n He twice gave the pilot instructions to “exit at Taxiway Echo, turn left, cross Runway 4 Left, then turn left on Taxiway Bravo, which runs parallel to Taxiway 8 Left,” Gregor said. “But the C-130 pilot didn’t make the left turn on Taxiway B. He kept going straight on, heading straight toward Runway 8, where the regional jet was on its take-off.”<\/p>\n The go! jet – known as Air Shuttle 1018 – was pointed in the diamondhead direction of Runway 8 and had just gotten permission from Gurule to take off.<\/p>\n Gurule then looked up just in time to see that the C-130 had not turned onto Taxiway B and instead was on the makai side of the runway facing the terminals – rolling directly into the path of the oncoming go! jet.<\/p>\n SPLIT-SECOND REACTION<\/strong><\/p>\n Gurule said the C-130 pilot “was definitely in a very dangerous place to be.” The go! pilot was bearing down “past the point of no return,” Gurule said.<\/p>\n Gurule said he yelled at the C-130 pilot to “hold your position. … And he just stopped abruptly.”<\/p>\n Sorenson said Gurule “didn’t have two seconds or one second to think. It was a split-second, gut reaction to yell out to stop the pilot. Had he waited one or two seconds longer, we would definitely be talking about a different set of circumstances.”<\/p>\n Air Shuttle 1018 then lifted into the air in front of the C-130 and a nervous pilot came on the radio.<\/p>\n “There was a slight moment of silence,” Gurule said. “I asked Air Shuttle 1018, ‘Are you OK?’ You could tell the pilot was absolutely shaken up. His response was, ‘It was a little crazy for a second but we’re OK.’ Then he was concerned that maybe he did something wrong. His question to me was, ‘I was cleared for take-off, wasn’t I?'”<\/p>\n Gurule then directed the C-130 pilot to contact the tower about a possible “pilot deviation” and had no further contact with him.<\/p>\n The FAA continues to investigate the incident.<\/p>\n Reach Dan Nakaso at dnakaso@honoluluadvertiser.com.<\/p>\n Source: http:\/\/the.honoluluadvertiser.com\/article\/2007\/May\/25\/ln\/FP705250379.html\/?print=on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Posted on: Friday, May 25, 2007 It’s close call for C-130, go! jet By Dan Nakaso Advertiser Staff Writer A C-130 military cargo plane came close to crossing the path of a go! passenger jet taking off from Honolulu International Airport at about 100 mph, the Federal Aviation Administration said. “I’ve seen other incidents throughout … <\/p>\n