Originally Posted by
aussieflyboy
However, there are mistakes and there are HOWLING BLOODY ******UPS!
Whatever anyone wants to say about mistakes happen and the like, that's true but you need to do simple things right like CHECKING YOUR DG/COMPASS BEFORE YOU ROLL. They knew that the runway wasn't lit. They said so themselves. There's no doubt that at 0600 the main runway would have been lit.
My beef isn't with people saying the crew *******ed up. My beef is people suing everyone from the FO (who has already paid dearly) to Comair (who wasn't responsible). First off, the people who took off from the wrong runway are the capt., who is dead, and the FO, who is *******ed up for life. With the greedy lawyers and opportunistic families, if I was involved (capt. or FO), I would rather be dead.