Originally Posted by
ATC Watcher
On the other hand there will always be someone (a Capt Hindsight) that will say that If the Fedex had landed " normally" and decelerated behind the accelerating 737 possibly the separation would have been greater and consequently the risk of collision would have been smaller.
I doubt that anyone who has looked at the traces would think that.
A rather more sobering "what-if" is to consider what the outcome would have been had the 737 paused for as little as 10 seconds longer during its run-up checks before rolling. That scenario doesn't bear thinking about.