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Old 22nd Oct 2009, 20:44
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RobertS975
 
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Hey, a good thing that there wasn't anyone coming down that taxiway for a takeoff on 27R, landing lights off as a courtesy to the incoming arriving aircraft. It could have been Tennerife II.

Often enough, the only thing that separates an "incident" from a horrific accident is luck... Ernest K. Gann wrote about this a half century ago in "Fate is the Hunter".

My opinion only, but if enough attention gets paid to the "incidents", it could conceivably prevent a future accident.
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