Originally Posted by
sptraveller
uh
At some point, the relentlessness with which you pursue this single line of argument becomes comparable to the relentlessness with which the incident crew lined up on the taxiway.
Nothing more or less than a human frailty.
Since we were in caves, progress has been marked by two endeavours
1. Making it easier for the human to do what they do
2. Removing the human from having to do anything at all
Any argument that doesn't balance these is flying in the face of logic.
Any argument that doesn't give primacy to the second answer is flyng in the face of history.
The difference between your claim and mine is that professional crews repeatedly land on taxiways. It is not uncommon. What these incidents have in common is that each crew were convinced they were landing on the runway they were cleared to land on.
The way flight safety works is not to crucify each crew with the hope of 'encourager les autres'; it is to examine each incident and try to find why these landings (and in some cases take offs) on taxiways takes place. Then attempt to prevent that happening. Human factors research shows that attentional (aka cognitive) tunneling is one reason, that is then supported by confirmation bias. The same research shows that once an individual has been shown what can happen in their heads then they are less likely to have the same tunneling. Note that is less likely not impossible.
Trying to pretend that it is just that particular crew will. inevitably, only lead to another crew perhaps actually landing on a taxiway with several widebodies queued on it. Identifying what the reason was for misidentification and finding a method of mitigating it is far more productive; and is the way flight safety has been improved in the past.