ATC Watcher,
How can you say “Good Luck saved the Day” in the Austin incident. The FedEx crew had good situational awareness and knew the Southwest crew was cleared on to the runway. That’s why he asked if he was still cleared to land. Then when Tower queried the Southwest crew if they had started their takeoff roll, and Southwest didn’t respond, FedEx initiated his go around while asking SW to abort. So in my mind FedEx had very good situational awareness, not so much for SW and ZERO for the Tower controller. If luck was involved it was how both jets , on the same runway heading didn’t converge vertically as SW took off on climb out, and FedEx was climbing out on the go-around. The other 800lb gorilla in this story is the Tower Controllers employment qualifications and prior record. There are rumblings under the surface.