CRJ crash at KLEX:

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Emily wrote:
As for your question about my judgment, thankfully, so far, it's been
good, and that's why I'm still alive. If I had to depend on "luck" to
keep me safe in an airplane, I wouldn't fly. However, accidents such as
this one demonstrate why careful consideration and good judgment are so
important in aviation.

Sorry, I'm standing by my thought that you can't criticize their
mistakes until you've been in that situation. Blame has no place in
something like this....but I'm coming at this as someone who analyzes
mistakes for a living.

Well, I'm a pilot, so I've been in that situation. I've never used the
wrong runway.

When I first heard about the possibility of the crew selecting the wrong
runway, I thought that perhaps the runways intersected at or very near
the threshold (see HUF for an example), where a single intersection
services two runways. In that case, it is certainly easier to make the
turn onto the wrong runway, but that is not the case at LEX.

Blame does have a place, because that's how the rest of us learn. If
there's no blame, and no fault, then there's nothing to learn.



JKG