wrote:
Jay, I've basically only seen the Dubai Airport, and clearly remember
that the taxiways are about a third or a quarter of the runway width.
Unless the airport you mention was quite different, it strikes me as
quite improbable that a strip of asphalt as slender as a taxiway can be
mistaken for a runway. Again of course, in VMC, I suppose all bets are
off, but in VFR??

I fly in and out of the same airport as Jay. Trust me ... it's possible.
He and I are by no means the only ones that have mistaken the taxiway
for a runway. I don't know the dimensions, but I don't think our
taxiways are that much narrower than our runways.