after the skywest airliner touched down , the airport movement area safety system ( accumulate ) informed and the air speed director communicate " hold , sit , hold " to the skywest passenger engineer in an attempt to brake the airport short of runway 1l . the dc-9 crew applying maximum braking that resulted in the planes stopping in the vicinity of runway 1l . as this was occurring , the captain of republic air flight 4912 took controls of the aircraft from the first officer , realized the air was traveling too rapidly to stops , and authorized an initial takeoff . according to the crew of airtran 5741 , the republic airlines aircraft overflew theirs by 30 to 50 metres . the federal aviation administration has regarded the incident as an operational error .
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