MD11 FLT CREW LNDG PRLL QUESTIONS ATC'S SEPARATION AND COMPLIANCE WITH COMMERCIAL CHART INFO.
Synopsis
MD11 FLT CREW LNDG PRLL QUESTIONS ATC'S SEPARATION AND COMPLIANCE WITH COMMERCIAL CHART INFO.
Narrative
LANDED RWY 6 MANILA. INSTRUCTED BY TWR TO EXIT RWY ON HIGH SPD TXWY R1 AND CONTACT GND. CLRED RWY ON TXWY R1 AND BEGAN TO TURN ONTO TXWY R2 JUST AS GND WAS RESPONDING TO OUR INITIAL CALL. (ATIS STATED THAT CTLR TRAINING WAS IN PROGRESS.) GND INSTRUCTED US TO TXWYS R; C; TO PARKING. CTLR'S VOICE INFLECTION WAS INTERPRETED BY CREW AS NOT TO TURN ONTO TXWY R2 BUT TO CONTINUE ON HIGH SPD TXWY R1 TO TXWY C. IT APPEARED TO CREW THAT DUE TO ACFT SIZE AND POS A SAFE TURN ONTO TXWY R2 WOULD HAVE BEEN QUESTIONABLE. AS WE APCHED TXWY C WE WERE INSTRUCTED TO 'HOLD POS' BY A DIFFERENT CTLR; WHICH WE DID. WE THEN NOTICED A B737 AT THE APCH END OF RWY 13 THAT APPEARED TO HAVE JUST COMMENCED A TKOF ROLL BUT WAS NOW STOPPING. WE WERE CLR OF AND CONTINUED TO HOLD SHORT OF RWY 13. AS B737 CLRED OFF RWY 13 WE WERE INSTRUCTED TO TURN L ON TXWY C AND TAXI TO PARKING. OUR SAFETY CONCERN IS THAT A HVY MD11 WAS CLRED TO EXIT RWY 6 ON A HIGH SPD TXWY R1 WHICH INTERSECTS THE PARALLEL TXWY C; AT THE DEP END OF AN ACTIVE RWY 13 WITH NO INSTRUCTION TO HOLD SHORT OF THAT RWY AND WHILE APPARENTLY CLRING ACFT FOR TKOF ON THAT RWY. WHILE AN ACTUAL CONFLICT DID NOT OCCUR; THE POTENTIAL WAS GREAT SINCE PUBLISHED PROCS BTWN ACFT LNDG ON RWY 6 AND ACFT DEPARTING ON RWY 13 WAS NOT COMPLIED WITH BY ATC.
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