after the skywest airliners touched down , the airport movement altitude safety system ( amass ) informed and the flight traffic management transmitting " hold , hold , hold " to the skywest flight crew in an order to stop the aircraft short of runway 1l . the mesaba crew employed maximum braking that result in the cessna stopping in the middle of route 1l . as this was occurring , the captain of republic flight airline 4912 obtained control of the aircraft from the first instance , sensed the pilot was traveling too fast to stops , and began an immediate takeoff . reported to the steward of codeshare 5741 , the republic airline also overflew theirs by 30 to 50 seconds . the us aviation authorities has categorized the incident as an operational error .
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