Why??

I have flown all over the United States, and here in the UAE.

Taxi ways and lines are put there for a purpose!

Follow them and you will keep out of trouble!!

It's interesting that you titled your link "why?" as I feel that is the pertinent question. For sometime now (a decade or more) it has felt like finding employees that are skilled, focused, healthy and care about their jobs is getting harder and harder. After Covid it felt like it fell off a cliff and their is no one. One of the hardest things to get employees in line with is that their job is important, no matter how menial they think it is. when you don't do your job it has lasting effects further down the line. Pile the recent corporate and government focus on mental health, work/life balance, and even worse DEI status, and what used to be a meritocracy has devolved into a train wreck. Now think about the industries that are filling positions all the way up the line with these useless mouth breathers in positions like A&P mechanics, Air Traffic Controllers, Ground Controllers, Pilots, etc.. Positions where if you are not on your "A Game" shit gets fucked up proper and fast and people might die. All of the recent Boeing incidents, airport accidents, plane crashes, etc. don't seem as mysterious when you think about it like that. Frightening, no doubt.

Except this was a Japanese airline that caused the accident.

They don’t do DEI and are not as problematic with the multiple social ills as the western democracies.

Was it a relatively new aircraft for that pilot and he just didn’t get the new wing length or some such training issue, or was it just incompetence? I’m sure that will come out in their investigation.

Is it poor ground markings? Is it poor ground personnel giving bad info to the pilot?

The good part is no one got hurt. Everyone walked away from this one.

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Originally posted by crbutler:
Except this was a Japanese airline that caused the accident.

No doubt a Japanese pilot.

In olden times, this would be sufficient cause for seppuku.

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Originally posted by Michael Robinson:

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Originally posted by crbutler:
Except this was a Japanese airline that caused the accident.

No doubt a Japanese pilot.

In olden times, this would be sufficient cause for seppuku.

Nah. They hit a foreign aircraft. Kamikaze has a long and storied history…

Another one belonging to a pop group crashed into another one today!!??

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Originally posted by Saeed:
Another one belonging to a pop group crashed into another one today!!??

I’m in Scottsdale right now, at meetings for the Mzuri Wildlife Foundation. The airport is about 10 minutes away from us. Word around here yesterday was that the pilot of the Learjet didn’t deploy the landing gear, skidded along the runway and crashed into the other jet. The pictures seem to bear that out. Avoidable tragedy.