"Peter Duniho" wrote in message
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"Andrew Sarangan" wrote in message
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[...] I sincerely feel for those who lost loved ones. They have the
right be very angry. I am angry, and I did not lose anything.

You have never made a single mistake, ever, while flying an airplane?

IMHO, your anger is misplaced. It's not like the pilots made the mistake
on purpose. And so far, there's not any indication that they did
something blatantly irresponsible that led to their mistake.

Yes there most certainly is, and its more than an indication. Its a fact
that they either accepted a line up check on their HSI's telling them they
were on the wrong runway or they didn't make a correct runway lineup check.
Either way, it was a fatal error not to have made the lineup check or making
the check incorrectly. There is no way around the fact that they made the
takeoff on the wrong runway. This indicates an incorrect reading on the HSI
for the right runway or starting the run without a verifying check on the
means in the aircraft to verify the right runway.
Even if it can be argued that both HSI's were out, the mag compass would
also have had to be non operational. Last but not least, if ALL means of
verifying the correct runway were non functioning, that would mean they
accepted the runway they were on as the right runway without a verifying
lineup check.
No matter how you cut this one, pilot error is seriously indicated by the
simple fact that the takeoff roll was started on the runway not assigned to
them.
Dudley Henriques