Short Final

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Key Takeaways:

  • A King Air aircraft performed an exceptionally short landing at Metro Airport, utilizing less than 1,000 feet of the runway.
  • The brevity of the landing surprised the air traffic controller.
  • The controller humorously inquired why the pilot didn't use the remaining 9,000 feet of the runway.
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I overheard the following tower transmission after a King Air made a particularly short landing at Metro Airport near Denver. The King Air landed in less than a thousand feet and cleared the runway much earlier than the tower anticipated.

Controller (obviously stunned – and in good humor) :
“King Air, would you mind telling the tower exactly what was wrong with the other 9,000 feet of our runway?”


Ryan Lunde
via e-mail

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