Originally Posted by
glendalegoon
Ian. With all dead in kentucky crash except for one who was terribly wounded, could it really get much worse?
WHILE atc wasn't obligated to do too much more than it did, watching the runway should be and must be one of the focal points of local control.
OK - It's dark - the aircraft appears to be lined up on the correct runway and has clearance to take off. It is close to a mile away among all the other lights in the dark. It starts rolling and you watching it after around 5 seconds think it doesn't look right it can't be airborne already but it appears above the runway lights. So its now 8 seconds down the wrong runway accelerating - what would you have the controller say
that would be useful to an aircraft that cannot stop in the distance remaining and cannot take off in the distance remaining? And in saying that would the controller be blamed for the outcome afterward? E.g. "Had the controller not said that the aircraft may have got airborne..... "