Originally Posted by
Chiefttp
Patrickal,
Normally, one radio, the primary, is tuned to Ground, the other tuned to a company frequency during taxi. We have more than one radio.
Contributing factor? Split attention between grd and co freq? The CVR would have given information if the crew was talk/listening to co freq during taxi.
Long long ago I taxied across a runway and ground admonished me that was clear to(but not across) 31. I sat while they played it back, and I was very lucky that grd cleared me to a point on the opposing side of rwy 31, but it was not explicit that I was cleared to cross. However, the clearance was for a location that could only be reached by crossing 31. There definitely was no mention of 31 in the readback. I think the grd controller was unsure of which side of 31 I was on, and thought I was on east side, when I was on west side. I got away with it.