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I work in Aviation for a living, know ATC like the back of my hand. Those plane landed on close, but parallel runways. They do this all of the time if the weather is good enough. If you watch the replay, you will notice that neither aircraft goes around which means that:
a) they both landed at the same time
b) being as there was no news of a plane crash, they didn't land on top of each other.
Watch the video again, planes are departing from all 4 runways. A few minutes later (at about 1613) after they both land, you will se a plane come in from the southeast and land on the same south runway.
Here is a tid-bit for LAX too...
Normal Operations: During Normal Operations, LAX uses the following runway configuration --
25L: ILS and visual approaches
25R: departures (visual approaches, if coordinated with tower)
24L: departures (visual approaches, if coordinated with tower)
24R: ILS and visual approaches
The technique is called "Simultaneous Parallel ILS Approaches." This is the rule for LAX:
"technically simultaneous parallel ILS approaches are ONLY authorized when the final approach monitor, positions are manned. For the purposes of VATSIM, we always consider these two positions manned, even if they are not."
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