Air Serbia E195 runs into runway lights at Belgrade

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"and that at the point the aircraft entered via D5 an older sounding male controller stepped in. Was that not so?"

it was, maybe at that point he should have just told the pilot to go to D6 without offering any options and recalculations "you have made the mistake please go to D6"

it's not the blame it's just that I would expect some redundancy at such an important part of the flight

see the Chiefftp post ( Air Serbia E195 runs into runway lights at Belgrade )

just asking the pilot for the type of the plane and telling him that no such plane has ever took off from that position would maybe make the pilot reconsider his decision, but I still think that making the mistake on the runway should raise the alert of the conroller and correcting that mistake should be the least painfiul thing to do