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[i]My story focuses on an unintentional entry onto an active runway at a towered airport, thus violating one of the fundamental responsibilities of a pilot-in-command of an aircraft. It shows once again that we aviators are not infallible. Anyone can make a mistake when not giving full attention to the dynamics of the moment, and no one can afford to allow complacency and impatience to take over. I consider myself to be an experienced aviator: 22 years in the Navy, 9,000-plus hours accumulated in both military and civilian aircraft, most of which were high-performance flying machines. I've made more than 200 carrier landings, and three space flights — two of which took me to the moon. All that... and yet I violated a cardinal rule by entering an active runway without clearance. My incident should be a wake-up call for everyone, starting with myself. The message is that no matter who we are, where we have been, how many hours or landings we may have, or how good we may think we are, we all are prone to the inevitability of making a mistake — in retrospect, of doing something dumb. I am better than that. You are better than that. But if it can happen to me — IT CAN HAPPEN TO YOU.[/i]
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