Originally Posted by dojetdriver

You need to grow up, and STOP trying to legitimize an error made by major airline flight crew who failed to exercise SOP's, failed to verify/crosscheck, failed to back each other up, failed at CRM, failed to notice there was NOTHING what so ever resembling a runway before they landed.

If you don't understand that a major airline crew can completely screw up and kill people the same as a regional crew can, clearly you aren't capable of having an honest and intellectual conversation about aviation accidents.

But yeah, keep trying to rationalize why people in ATL aren't dead. They were lucky, NOT good.

Who here in an emergency situation is going to accept runway changes from a controller in a situation that has so much potential for error?

Jungle says it best;