First of all I do feel sorry for the guys as this could hapen to any of us and it is easy to sit here and speculate the reasons but I am sure that all would agree no profesional sets out on the day to go and deliberately have an incident. These things do happen, and they happen to the best of pilots and they happen to the average, and they sometimes happen to the worst. If one reads through the CHIRP report throughout the year it is evident that on a yearly basis the majors have more incidents than the low cost sector combined. People's perception is such that they will always be bashing the lowcost carriers and this is a great example of it. It is also very interesting how an EJ incident automaticaly brings out the RYR bashing about RYR taxiing.
Just for the info mjkblackdog[/B] Mr Boeing does not say 20 Knots for straight taxiing he says 30 Knots. This information is in the 737NG Flight Crew Training Manual Revision 1 dated October 31 2001. It is incorporated again in Revision 2 of the same manual.
Hope this ends well for the crew involved as we are all on the same side.
JP
