Originally Posted by
ThreeThreeMike
I begin this post by apologizing for not completely reviewing the thread again before commenting...
...The crew was aware the 28L was closed, and the difference in the sight picture between a fully lit active runway and a taxiway, illustrated by an earlier post of a sim program screencap, is so obvious it seems inexplicable the crew made the misidentification described in the NTSB document.
You may therefore have missed the following:
Originally Posted by
AerocatS2A
It is interesting that the previous landing also questioned to themselves if they were lined up on the correct runway stating that the construction lights were very bright and made it impossible to see the closed runway, also that the lack of lights on the jets on the taxiway contributed to their confusion. Of course they sorted things out fine, but it certainly suggests that the visual environment was not good.
May I thus venture to suggest that the actual situation as seen through the cockpit window on that particular night may not have tallied with the "sim program screencap" -- 28L not dark, and red-X drowned out by construction floodlights perhaps?