"Tony" wrote in message
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If you pull up a sat image of the airport it appears the thresholds for
22 and 26 are along the same line of sight from the tower. It wouldn't
have been obvious the airplane was at the wrong runway from the tower..

Most of us who are instrument rated use the runway centerline as a
final verification the DG is aligned, and I'd sure declare an equiment
about if the damned thing was saying something like 260 when it should
say 220.

There will have to be some really odd circumstances if this isn't
called pilot error. In fact, I'd appreciate someone offering a
reasonable theory that does not implicate the pilots.

And isn't it true that both would have had to operate from that airport
before they could carry passengers?

Awful error, and and even more awful punishment for having made it.


Well, even if they received the wrong runway from ATC, they're the final
authority and it's their responsibility to know the airport and its runways'
lengths, but Emily is right when she says that we can't criticize until we
know what happened exactly. We should not blame anyone but we should know
what happened so we can learn from that. (I haven't heard a reasonable
theory yet either)

Here is LEX Airport diagram (http://avn.faa.gov/d-tpp/0608/00697AD.PDF) and
the runways aren't that close, so it's weird they took the wrong one.

Javier Omella.