All crew at all airliners in the world make mistakes. The important thing is to learn from them. Lets hope that the authorities decide to learn from this incident instead of just punishing the crew (seems to be happening more and more).
Here are some other mistakes from other airliners;
SAS:
Report: SAS B736 at Lulea on Feb 27th 2007, took off opposite runway
Pel Air:
Report: Pel Air E120 at Sydney on Oct 13th 2007, aligned with edge- instead of centerline for takeoff
Singapore Airlines:
ASN Aircraft accident Boeing 747-412 9V-SPK Taipei-Chiang Kai Shek Airport (TPE)
China Airlines:
ASN Aircraft accident Airbus A340-313X B-18805 Anchorage International Airport, AK (ANC)
Comair / Delta Connection:
ASN Aircraft accident Canadair CRJ100ER (CL-600-2B19) N431CA Lexington-Blue Grass Airport, KY (LEX)
Just shows it could happen to everybody
......... lets use this as a wakeup call.
Safe flying everybody.