I am not saying not to, that is up to the NTSB on who to blame. I am not putting blame on anyone. All I am saying, aviation used to be all about safety, all the things that you or I do we do for a reason, we have redundancy so we can catch each others mistakes. Now aviation including the FAA is all about cost. The controller cleared the aircraft for the right runway and had to go on doing other work, it’s not the controllers fault. All I was saying is if ATC had the staffing that they are supposed to, the controller could have been looking out the window and maybe just maybe it could have been prevented, since it was in 1993 at LEX.


ACN: 256788 (76 of 130)
Time / Day
Date : 199311
Local Time Of Day : 0601 To 1200
Day : Sat

Assessments

Primary Problem : Flight Crew Human Performance
Air Traffic Incident : Pilot Deviation

Narrative

ACFT WAS CLRED FOR IMMEDIATE TKOF (TFC INSIDE THE MARKER) ON RWY 22. WE TAXIED ONTO RWY AND TOLD TWR WE NEEDED A MOMENT TO CHK OUR DEP ROUTING WITH OUR WX RADAR (STORMS IN THE AREA, RAINING AT THE ARPT). WE REALIZED OUR HDG WAS NOT CORRECT FOR ASSIGNED RWY AND AT THAT MOMENT TWR CALLED US TO CANCEL TKOF CLRNC BECAUSE WE WERE LINED UP ON RWY 26. WE TAXIED CLR AND HELD SHORT OF RWY 22 FOR LNDG TFC. WE TOOK OFF ON RWY 22 AND PROCEEDED WITHOUT INCIDENT. POSSIBLE CONTRIBUTING FACTORS WERE POOR VISIBILITY AND WX (RAIN), CONFUSING RWY INTXN AND TWR'S REQUEST FOR AN IMMEDIATE TKOF. SUGGEST POSSIBLE WARNING PAGE (SIMILAR TO HOUSTON HOBBY) TO CLARIFY MULTIPLE RWY ENDS.

Synopsis

FLC OF AN MLG ACR ACFT INADVERTENTLY TAXIED INTO POS FOR TKOF ON THE WRONG RWY.