So true. When I visited two years ago, I went back the next day, and STILL missed a few planes (and kinda rushed through several others). It’s an astounding collection.
Another article on the Newark close call:
If you scroll down there’s a paragraph heading which says, “Planes fly low when landing.”
Unassailable logic, I suppose, but thank you Captain Obvious
AT least we now understand why they landed on 29: the winds were out of limits for the normal runways. An alternative would have been to land at JFK which has long runways aligned that same way, but if so, all the inbound large planes should have done the same thing. Which would have been a logistical nightmare for UAL which has no facilities at JFK.
I wonder if any of the Flightaware mavens will put together an excerpt of all the Rwy 29 landings in, say, the 2 hours before and after the mishap. There might be a bunch of other sporty arrivals, or this one might be an extreme outlier and nobody else had their feathers ruffled even a bit.