Monday on Runway 27R but landed instead on Taxiway M, which runs parallel to the runway.
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The taxiway, which is used by planes to access the runway, was also extended and rebuilt.
It does this by accelerating to the speed set for the taxiway, using its inbuilt GPS map system.
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Air traffic control recordings from LiveATC.net captured Tuesday's incident as the the wide body was on the taxiway.
Bergen said she isn't sure whether or when other aircraft have ever landed on the taxiway at Hartsfield.
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Sitting in line on a taxiway is only slightly more pleasant in a private aircraft than in a commercial one.
No other aircraft were on the taxiway, and there was no damage to either the taxiway or the plane, a Boeing 767, Bergen said.
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Cyprus Airways flight CY 332 from Larnaca exited the taxiway onto a grass area, having made a safe landing before the runways were closed.
The safety board said at the time that 12 accidents since 1993 had involved a large aircraft's wingtip hitting another airplane or object on the taxiway.
Delta suffered another major embarrassment this week when a Delta pilot landed a passenger jet on a taxiway at Atlanta-Hartsfield International Airport instead of the runway.
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Both Runway 27R and Taxiway M are 11, 890 feet long, Bergen said, but the runway is marked with white lights while the taxiway is marked with blue lights.
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Even tiny delays, like the extra time pilots spend trying to find the right taxiway in the fog at O'Hare in Chicago, can add up to huge backlogs as far away as New York as controllers order delays in takeoffs.
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