Kudos to the SkyWest guys. Great Save!!!!!

Fortunately ass whipping went out in the days of slavery not that JO won't bring it back, furthermore there are no 300 hour guys taxiing anything more than a 21" roller suitcase at Mesa, Capt's only. Besides that you can not taxi an RJ from the right seat.

The fact that the AMASS was down doesn't help and this bull**** of intersection takeoffs does not help matters either. Had the Sky west E120 taken off from the end of the runway they would of been long gone prior to the encroaching mesa flight.

I would not in anyway blame anyone other than the crew who breeched the runway, period it is there fault for not verifying the clearance. Not that we know the whole story for all we know they were cleared to cross.

This armchair quarterbacking from guys with weekends off sucks too, you fly into LAX for maybe the first time and see how disoriented it can be.