B757 flight crew describe the circumstances surrounding a landing without clearance at ORD.
Synopsis
B757 flight crew describe the circumstances surrounding a landing without clearance at ORD.
Narrative
First flight of the day; maintenance delay; was given a new plane from the hangar; we were 2 hours late. ATC was the usual very busy as Chicago can get. Base leg; turn to intercept 27R LOC; had visual on runway; 'direct to SILBY; maintain 170 KTS; cleared visual 27R'. At 1;000 FT; pilot not flying '1;000 FT' pilot flying 'Set missed approach Altitude.' I never said 'no clearance to land.' We landed without a landing clearance; taxied off runway; Captain said 'We are still on Approach Control; we did not get clearance to land.' Neither of us caught the mistake. I STRONGLY believe that if we would receive adequate training on our new procedures; both the Captain and I would have corrected our actions and called Tower for clearance. What I have learned from this event; firstly as pilot flying at 1;000 FT I now will say 'set missed approach altitude we are cleared to land' or 'not cleared to land' if that is the situation. Taking out 'cleared to land' at 1;000 FT I believe is a threat to our operations. Secondly; as a pilot we have habits we have been operating under certain procedures for many years. To think we can change our procedures via computer based training is ludicrous! Lastly; as we fly we always have 'Threats' and we manage them with training; experience; knowledge; checklists to name a few tools. Now our checklists have been changed; procedures changed; culture changed; all changed without training.
Second reporter narrative
We were with ORD Approach for 27R--were given a base turn about 7-8 miles outside the marker (SIBLY?) for 27...once on final approach told us to slow to 170 KTS to the marker but never gave us a Tower frequency or told us to switch over. I was the pilot not flying and became too focused on slowing and the traffic in front of us about 2.5 miles. As soon as we landed I realized we hadn't received a landing clearance. We taxied off called Ground and nothing was said by the Tower. I believe there were three things distracting me to not contact the Tower. First I was slightly irritated we were landing on 27R--we were already 2.5 hours late from a mechanical problem and eventual plane change and this was going to add another 12 to 15 minutes of taxi time. Secondly I became too focused on our speed although we were slowing fine for the traffic in front of us I didn't want to go around. Third; at the 1;000 FT call I have been making an effort not to make the 'cleared to land' callout but neither one of us thought to make a 'not cleared to land' call. This doesn't make any sense to me; I think it should be verbalized either way.
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