Originally Posted by
jolihokistix
Japanese comparatively intellectual magazine 'Aera' is running a special article on this incident in their 22 January issue. They say the investigators are focussing on those 40 seconds, how could the co-pilot of the Dash 8 not have picked up on the authorization receipt misunderstanding, and how a series of human errors from all involved seems to have compounded the original mistake.
The argument surely goes all the way back to the original ATC exhange:
- Where did the pilot get runway clearance from?
- Where did the pilot get takeoff clearance from?
- Where did all the crew get takeoff clearance from in order to achieve a consensus?
At that point you have to wonder whether anything would have changed their minds in the 40 seconds.
People who say a stoppbar would have prevented this incident forget that the JCG plane was a special case and the pilot could have easily disregarded the stopbar as well.