Originally Posted by Bidule
"You can guarantee the ground frequency and the Argentinian were speaking to each other in Espanyol"
It would have changed nothing if they were speaking Russian. The Russian 767 was obviously not yet on the ground frequency!
Wouldn't they be on the same frequency, I thought runway operations were handled by the tower? Unless the tower gave a command to cross and contact ground. Is that normal practice?
Either way it was obviously a good decision by the 767 crew regardless and all the more reason to trust Mk.1 eyeball. Until a transcript is available it is impossible to comment on what may of actually been said or otherwise.
It is rather more scary to think about the what ifs in this situation - good weather, daytime and swift actions on the part of the 767 crew appears to have mitigated a more serious mishap.