Originally Posted by
ghilis101
scary. could of happened to anybody. lets hope skywest "counsels" the crew and doesnt fire them
I am familiar with the taxiway configuration . . . . and many times tower will say to make a sharp left. . . Southwest usually takes this route to shorten their taxi to the gate. Not uncommon for the controllers to issue this.
In fact, it's not unusual for the aircraft to take taxiway Zulu when they were supposed to make the hard left on Yankee . . .
The problem I have is that the crew made a 180 vs. asking tower what to do . .
THE GOOD THING is that the crew was still on TOWER Frequency. Many many times I have seen and heard (or not) the crew switch to Ground Frequency WHILE sitting between two runways like in LAX. And tower is unable to contact them . . .