Originally Posted by
crazy8534
Not excuses, but I assume that if it happened there were factors that contributed to it.
I doubt anybody goes to work planning to cross an active runway without clearance, potentially endangering lives.
I'd gently suggest that it would be useful to try and ascertain these factors and perhaps reduce the risk of it happening again, instead of applying the "no excuses, pilot to blame" strategy, attractive though it seems.
Indeed. I don't work in aviation but I had always thought that, as far as possible, there is "no blame" so that if a mistake is made it can raised comfortably and lessons learned rather than dragging people over the coals which mignt see them tempted to ignore or cover up an incident, which could have much more serious consequences.