Federal authorities are investigating how a jetliner carrying more than 160 people landed on a taxiway instead of an adjacent runway at Newark's Liberty Airport.No one was injured when the Continental flight from Orlando, Florida, landed in the wrong place Saturday night. Taxiways often have planes, vehicles or personnel on them.The Boeing 757-200 should have landed on the shortest of the airport's three runways, but it instead touched down on a taxiway parallel to the runway, said Jim Peters, a spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration.The FAA is "investigating it as a [possible] pilot deviation" from proper safety procedures, Peters said. The FAA had not interviewed the pilot and co-pilot as of Monday, but the airline said they have been grounded....
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