This just in: the Daily Mail totally screws the pooch on an article about aviation. Shocking, I know. (Articles like that remind me while the DM has great pictures of bikini-clad celebrities, as a factual newspaper, they’re about six notches behind the Weekly World News.)
Anyway, that Egyptair pilot is probably in deep falafel. This happened at 6:52 pm local, so it was still daylight. Visibility was 10 miles, no precipitation, no fog. Somehow, the Egyptair 777 captain mistook runway 04L/22R for a taxiway? Or realized his mistake but turned left onto the runway anyhow? That is a monumental screw-up. And if he wasn’t cleared to cross 22R, but told to turn left on taxiway B but missed the turn and durped his way out onto 22R, that’s all him, not the controllers.
I’ll bet the Lufthansa crew about soiled themselves when they suddenly saw that 773 less than a mile ahead of them. This could’ve been hella ugly.
}:-)4
Durped?
The FAA “map” of the airport is here to help other follow -
http://204.108.4.16/d-tpp/1106/00610AD.PDF