I thought i would post this for those in the comair crash thread. People can talk all day about what went wrong, how they may not have followed procedure, that they needed better training. Well guess what!! MISTAKES HAPPEN! The thing is that not all mistakes are fatal! How many times have you misheard a frequency from center? Accidentally read back a crossing and speed restriction wrong? Just remember, mistakes happen all the time to a varying degree. This one was just a really bad one. Had the runway been just a thousand feet longer they would have been fine and NO ONE would have been the wiser. Tower wasn't paying attention and they didn't know they were on the wrong runway. Just remember. Mistakes happen. From a TWA Guy i knew that had 14000 hours in a 747 that did a gear up landing in a mooney, to this military guys who have checklist, for checklist, to make sure they did the checklist. THEY EVEN HAVE TO CALL TOWER TO VERIFY GEAR DOWN!!!!!

http://www.zianet.com/tedmorris/dg/bombers4.html

dont be so quick to judge. just follow the rules, pay attention. and be careful!

by they way that cost us almost 300,000,000 DOLLARS