DFC
If you read what the report said precisely you will see that he was not distracted by
any telephone calls! There were other factors that could, and probably did, distract him.
It was an impartial AAIB report that first raised the 'distraction' word.
All these factors resulted in the potential for distraction to 'Air 1' . Therefore I think the title is not wide of the mark.
On the subject of taxy speeds, some airlines have an 'event' in their performance monitoring system for taxy speeds in excess of 33 knots (type dependent) and others encourage time-saving by various means. From personal experience, I would say that Ryanair favour the faster taxy speeds and this seems to be the experience of others. Just an observation but observations by many soon become a reputation.
Anne
