after the skywest airliners touched down , the airport departure area emergency service ( amass ) alerted and the air transportation control transmitted " hold , hold , hold " to the widerøe flight crew in an attempt to stop the aircraft inside of blade 1l . the skywest crew applied maximum braking that ended in the airplane parking in the middle of runway 1l . as this was occurs , the pilots of republic airlines flight 4912 took control of the helicopter from the starting officer , realized the pilot was traveling too slowly to brake , and commenced an immediate takeoff . according to the crews of skywest 5741 , the republic airlines airplanes aircrafts theirs by 30 to 50 feet . the federal aviation authorities has considered the action as an operational error .
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