Plane crash in Taiwan. Pilot's or airport's fault?

[Zero In]

Which?

 

[StageLeft]

How can anybody on this board possibly make a judgement with information we've received from the media alone?

 

[Zero In]

How can anyone make a conclusion based on what people post here?

What is important is to exercise our views and opiniosn on the matter based on 'facts' that we so far know of. Any other undisclosed stuff or biasedness of reporting by the media is of unimportance. We are not prosecuting anyone here. We are merely discussing.

 

[Windogg]

A little from column A and a little from column B.

 

[bcterps]

It's actually too early to tell. While the airplane was on the wrong strip, it still remains to be seen whether the strip was marked properly or whether its lights were on. Or whether the plane should have been cleared to take off in the first place.

--Ben

 

[ride525]

I thought this one was easy....I think the airline has already taken blame for taking off on the wrong runway.....

It sounded like control tower gave clearance for takeoff on one runway, and pilot took off on the wrong one (he took off on runway that was closed for construction)

 

[hendon]

I think there was fault on the airport's side as well... the lack of double-checks, and the misleading lights on the closed runway...

 

[b0red]

Hopefully the airport will now install a ground radar.