Comments by "Reecom98" (@reecom9884) on "Passenger jets nearly collide" video.

@kevinmanan1304 Airline pilots are required to have a pre-takeoff briefing and both have to agree on which runway is in active use from the broadcast digital Automatic Terminal Information Service (ATIS) and monitor the given taxi instructions on their moving map navigation. There is no single person's mistake, it had to be multiple failures in procedures to have been broken by both pilots for the potential of a major accident. It is the reason for two airline pilots to verify each other's action in the cockpit.
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The American Airlines (AA106) missed the taxiway to runway 4L to be next to takeoff after Delta Airlines (DL1943)and was headed to runway 31L, the wrong runway. The American Airlines pilot and copilot should have known what the active takeoff runway was. With moving map navigation and even with an ordinary compass both pilots would have seen they were heading in the wrong direction.
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