I don't think the third guy had anything to do with the accident. As I said before the R5 relay controlled by the nose oleo strut made the take off warning inop. It was probably overinflated. As I said it happened to me and by applying aggresive braking brought the strut back down so it returned to ground idle and the strobes shut off. I assume the same thing happened to them. Every MD80 pilot should be aware of this. In the daytime you can't see the strobes, but at night you can. If the strobes are flashing you have no take off warning. Compress the nose strut to put it back in ground mode.