Originally Posted by
draglift
If ATC had said to them, "Turn right on Kilo and cross 31L" I do not think the incident would have happened as the instruction to turn right would have been different to what they were expecting and would have made them realise.
Do not try to shift or dilute the errors made by the AAL crew . There are long established taxi procedures, and they work 99.999% of the time . Instructing pilots to turn right or left from 3 Km away will create far more possibilities for confusion and errors than anything else.
Whether the stop bars were on or not is the thing I would like to know though.
I know from an IFALPA/IFATCA survey many years ago asking which airports pilots were routinely instructed by ATC to cross illuminated red bars that there were quite a few at the time . I thought the problem was solved. Or does any of you here still experience this somewhere today ?