I didn't see one person crucifying or blaming the controller here! Jeezuz, here is a perfect example of why I left APC the last time, because of the innane ramblings of a few people who respond to you without actually "reading" your post or what it meant. Perhaps some of you skipped over your critical and analytical thinking and writing courses while at university.

Miker, as you know, if you actually "read" his post, is an ATC himself. The FAA admitted publicly that they violated their own policy! How many times do they not admit, or get caught, violating their own policy? Can't you knee jerk respondents see that while yes, it appears that the pilots were at error here, that maybe, just maybe, another set of eyes in the tower (by the way CargoBob, your eyes are part of your head, hence two heads are better than one) possibly could have alerted the pilots that they were on the wrong runway? And yes, that is called "check and balances"....I have a plane to catch so don't bother trying to pick more arguments with me, because you'll be talking to yourself like the folks down on Market street do. Go have a ****ing match amongst yourselves. Hope you have fun.