Well, if it apears a lot wider than 75', I can see them not picking up on it
till it was too late.
That explains a lot if thats the way that runway is paved.
A sad situation.

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My 2¢ YMMV
"Guy Elden Jr" wrote in message
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I can see how they got disoriented in the dark (my guess) and I can see
how
the tower wouldn't necessarily pick up that they were on the wrong
runway,
but I can't understand why the 'WTF is going on here' alarm didn't go off
in
the Pilot or Co-pilots head as they were starting a takeoff roll down a
75'
wide runway in poor shape, as opposed to the newer 150' wide runway they
were supposed to be on.

http://makeashorterlink.com/?M6AD235AD

Take a look at the Google Maps link - the 75' wide runway is only 75'
between the markings. It appears to be a 150' wide swath of pavement.
In the dark, you could easily miss the runway numbers while turning
onto 26 if following the left-most taxiway centerline from the terminal
area. Not sure what sort of lighted runway signage there is in the
vicinity tho.

The patched up part of that runway appears to be at the 08 end, so it's
certainly possible by the time they got to that end, they did realize
something was wrong, but possibly too late to do anything about it
other than pull up hard.

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Guy