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Old 28th Feb 2010, 14:01
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Rwy edge lights - white
Twy edge lights - green/blue

They are coloured just to minimize things like this...
Well... Last time i checked green lights were not taxiway edge lights, but taxiway centreline lights. And runway edge lights could also, in the far distance, be yellow.

Mind also that runway markings in Norway are nonstandard, they are yellow, and not white. So the crew would expect to see a yellow marking on the concrete...which they did.

In fact, in 2006, pretty much the exact same thing happened to a Pegasus 737. Luckily in that case, the tower controller was able to stop them; they reached a speed just over 80 kts according to the report (2006/20 | sht, norwegian only).

The interesting thing here is not that the pilots screwed up. Pilots have done so for ages and there is nothing to indicate that we will stop screwing up even the simplest task if performed often enough. The question is why; how could it have been avoided; what were the underlying causes. How many layers of swiss cheese was there, how did the holes line up?

You can hang these two, maybe it will make you feel good, but that in itself will not prevent this from happening again.
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