Originally Posted by
underfire
In the recording, it is obvious it was UA1 that made the on taxiway call. Would be interesting to get his take on events.
As they were first in the line-up sequence ready to go, they were most likely on the lookout for the no.1 on finals. But with the nose towards the holding point, only the LH seat had a clear view on the final approach area (so did the LH seat pax!) and more importantly for the scare factor, were already much out of the way, except for the tail section, no visual head-on confrontation and had things turned much more for the worse (lower vert.separ.), had a simpel escape route slamming the throttles. They must, most certainly, have had their WTF moment, but soon lost sight of the more critical phase.
The #2 in sequence, however....