"Neil Gould" wrote in message
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Recently, Steven P. McNicoll posted:
(much snipped collision on the runway)

Errors were made by the ground controller and the Skyhawk pilot, but
not by the local controller.

Wait a second... if the tower and ground controllers are two different
people...where and when do ground controllers give position & hold or
clearances for departure?


The local controller issued a "taxi into position and hold" instruction to
an Skyhawk he believed to be at the end of the runway. He believed that
because the strip, which was prepared by the ground controller, was marked
to indicate a full length departure. The Skyhawk involved in the collision
called ready to go but did not indicate he was an intersection departure.
It so happened that there was a Skyhawk at the far end of the runway. It
was the Skyhawk at the full length position that the local controller
believed had called ready to go.