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Originally Posted by Ryan Coke
But the concept of going around due to traffic pulling onto the active runway in the last couple hundred feet is quite routine and trained.
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Except that's not what happened, and what happened is exponentially worse. Agree to disagree on this one. Since you insist on that example, is it routine for a runway to be infringed upon and for that traffic to just sit there on the runway, and for the aircraft on final to continue the approach? Cause that's what happened.
Sure planes line up (and land) on taxiways all the time... but again for me the big thing here is the identification of aircraft being on the surface he lined up with and no verification to confirm they were lined up with what ATC just told them was clear, which should have been a huge red flag. That's the part of it that "doesn't happen all the time".
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Originally Posted by Fuzz
Wouldn't it be pretty obvious which one is the runway and which is the taxiway based on those guide landing lights that stretch from the runway though?
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In theory, yes... and that is one of many questions.