Posted on 07/11/2017 9:51:32 AM PDT by Lonely Bull
The only thing I can come up with is that they saw the white landing lights on the row of planes and thought they were runway lights. But when the co-pilot asked about planes on the runway, that indicates that he did (or should have) recognized what the light source was.
It will be interesting to see the final report.
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