Airport rep being interviewed on MSNBC stated that it was a twenty-four hour tower.
Thanks. I'm going to be interested to see what comes out of that, someone in the tower might not have been paying attention.
I looked at the taxi chart for the airport and somebody unfamiliar with the place could quite possibly make this mistake if they weren't paying attention. The taxiway that leads from the terminal area northward toward runway 22 first crosses runway 26 at its takeoff end (as taxiway A) and then continues at a slight angle over to runway 22 (as taxiway A7).
The taxi chart is available at http://www.myairplane.com/databases/approach/pdfs/00697AD.PDF
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