From the LiveATC.net recording, Caribbean landed 22L and JetBlue was taking off from 22R. The taxi clearance is not on the recording but there are two calls from the Tower, one calling for Caribbean to hold short and then another to stop (controller sounded anxious by now), there was no reply to either. The Tower then called for JetBlue to abort their take-off.
That was what led to my question at #5 above.
one of 3 things happened:
a) for whatever reason the pilots ignored instructions that were physically audible. (distraction, language, whatever)(
b) wrong frequency
c) technical failure.
(a) would fall on the folks with headsets on,
(c) is on the engineers
but (b) falls on both, yes? That's a 1900's technology problem. Given the importance of ground control communications at this phase of operations it just shouldn't happen. One might say comms takes precedence once you turn off the runway. If you don't have comms fix that first?
So what in pilot's experience would be likely reasons for Caribbean 526 to miss those calls? Not that it has happened to you, of course.