You and I both know that the final decision is the pilot's...but we live in
a world where the media wants sensation and the legal system wants to assign
blame. When the lawsuits finally hit the courts (and there will be lawsuits,
count on it), the prosecutors will look in every nook and cranny for someone
to pin it on...and the tower will be in their sights along with others.

Bob gardner

"Matt Whiting" wrote in message
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Bob Gardner wrote:

Airplanes are heavier on takeoff than at any other time, and the margin
between their climb speeds and the stall is at its smallest. Ask anyone
who has done a V1 cut in training or on a checkride (jets only). I'm
willing to venture that the pilots of the accident plane did all of the
appropriate calculations for the longer runway. Seems to me that if a
plane is cleared for takeoff on a long runway but lines up on a shorter
runway, there is a lot of blame to be shared between the cockpit and the
tower.

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?

Matt