Another Landing Forced to Go-Around After Plane was Cleared to Take-Off

The terrain at this airport does not allow for anything else other than a SID heading. It is most appropriate to turn the arrival to a divergent heading as soon as possible. The controller can and does maintain visual separation between the aircraft until radar separation can be obtained. It is possible since the arrival was on a visual approach.
Don't know why the takeoff clearance was issued with the aircraft that close in unless the controller thought they could get the departure airborn and still have 6,000 feet between them, that is the minimum runway separation required.

Hired a ton but can’t seem to get them trained or certified.

My sense is that the frequency of such related stories is most likely heightened thanks to social media and the drive for attention/eyeballs. Let's let the data speak and if the system is measured as wanting based on events over the last few years (not months) then initiate a safety program to adjust accordingly. Kneejerk reactions, often fueled by politics, are counterproductive to safety. All IMHO.

Just like pilots, controllers lose situational awareness. There's little tricks one can do, for example, I would cover the windspeed indicator with paper when I had any (non-takeoff,landing)obstructions on a runway because I would never issue a takeoff or landing clearance without giving wind information. In this case, it appears more dynamic.

At least it did not end like this SkyWest flight: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_runway_disaster

And we appreciate that

Who in the hell takes the runway and sits in position for a minute and ten seconds when they have been cleared for takeoff. SWA KAUS

Diversity, equity and inclusion. It has nothing to do with quotas. Racists have twisted the meaning. And it has nothing to do with this aviation forum either!

'Should Social Security Be
Saved?' that was published in the Feb. 8-15 edition. The solution he suggests is so important that I'd like to fill in more details about Milton Friedman's plan.
Gen. Augusto Pinochet, who took control of Chile in a military coup in 1970, invited Friedman, three years later, to advise how to improve the country's economy, a country that had the continent's highest poverty rate. Friedman devised a plan that spurned socialism and embraced free markets and democracy.
A key segment of the plan was to develop a government-certified private pension account (of many different kinds) as an addition to the present public pension similar to the U.S. Social Security Fund.
The private account would be funded by each worker at a voluntary 10 percent of his income as opposed to a 20 percent required contribution to the public fund. Every worker could choose into which pension plan he wished to participate.
There was no "social secu-rity" tax for the private plan.
Now, 50 years later, the poverty rate among the elderly is less than half of the population as a whole. The poverty rate for the country dropped from 50 percent to 11 percent.
Contributions to the private
fund were invested into the economy to the extent that Chile is now South America's strongest economy. Further, the government isn't saddled with an obligation to pay a pension to anyone in the private program.
People in the private plan don't retire when politicians say they should, but rather when the people believe they have enough money in their plans to retire comfortably.
The plan is a win-win for the people and the country.

Wasn't the one at JFK caused by one crew not adhering to taxi instructions?

On first blush, I would agree with you. I hope they still do an in-depth investigation on all these errors. Of course, I don't have very much information on any of the incidents.

You are ABSOLUTELY WRONG that's NOT what the rules say! Actually the plane on the runway has the right of way.

If you are a pilot (doubtful) YOU are a danger to others!

READ the rules below, Landing Aircraft do NOT have ABSOLUTE priority to Land.

FIRST & FOREMOST You have a duty to AVOID other aircraft AND part (g) states landing craft may NOT take advantage of the Landing priority rule.


FAR 91.113

(b) General. When weather conditions permit, regardless of whether an operation is conducted under instrument flight rules or visual flight rules, vigilance shall be maintained by each person operating an aircraft so as to see and avoid other aircraft.

(g) Landing. Aircraft, while on final approach to land or while landing, have the right-of-way over other aircraft in flight or operating on the surface, EXCEPT that they shall NOT take advantage of this rule to force an aircraft off the runway surface which has already landed and is attempting to make way for an aircraft on final approach.