Originally Posted by
Telstar
The Hawk I want to know the same thing. The Americans have got to accept that there R/T standards are apalling and are contributing to accidents. I will forever wonder that if the controller had prefixed the takeoff clearance with the runway in use and the crew had readback the full clearance including the runway prefix a light bulb may have gone off in someones head.
I think the final hole in the swiss cheese lining up could have been prevented by proper phraseology like this:
TWR: Cleared for takeoff Runway 22
Comair: Cleared for takeoff Runway 26
TWR: STOP! Wrong runway!
Absolutely!
A high-hours long-haul NW captain once propsed that a huge difference could be made to the US runway incursion problem by more thorough signage.
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