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Old 09-04-2010, 05:51 AM
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Originally Posted by chuck416 View Post
Hope this comes out as a hyper link...my apologies in advance if it doesn't. Here's a good article to glance at. A B/A crew in a 777 did an intersection T/O, from the wrong intersection. Happened last year, and nearly a disaster. Could've easily been avoided with simply a taxi brief. Can't believe they don't do that at B/A.

BA passengers tried to halt 777 take-off after taxiing error
Interesting... certainly agree that it's a gross crew error, but how about a little help from the tower? Great example of what happens to guys that count on ATC helping out.
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