This runway situation seems serious. My first thought was that this is an opportunity for the Seattle city planners to come to the rescue. For those that dont live here, Seattle has an ingenious grid system which 1 person in 4 understands and which leads to distinctive and unambiguous intersections as 124th and 124th Ave.
I think the pilots might do better with a grid system in which the runways run perpendicular to the taxiways. S Runway SW and S Runway SE are connected by S Taxiway S and S Taxiway N. Yes, that would definitely improve things.
Pilots mistake taxiway for runway at Sea-Tac
Sunday, November 13, 2005
At least eight times since December 1999, experienced pilots from five different airlines have mistaken Taxiway Tango for Runway 16R.
