"Matt Whiting" wrote in message
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If the tower cleared the airplane to the correct runway and the pilots
taxied to a different one, how does the tower share in this blame?


ATC will no doubt be assigned a share of the blame. But if the pilot
reports ready to go at the assigned runway when he's actually at a different
one, and there is a Comair at the assigned runway, it's easy for the local
controller to miss the error.