And then there was the wind-shear report generated by TRW-s advancing on the airport. The tower told the pilot about the thunderstorms approaching and the pilots response “that’s why I want to get out of here”. Darwinism at it’s best. The pilot switched from 28L (into the wind) to 10R (oh my). Just as the pilot entered the runway the tower gave him an alert of more than 20kts straight across the runway (the wind was 7 its just one minute earlier).
Over 100 years of aviation and pilots are making the same mistakes over and over again. Once this guy started the wheels in motion he just couldn’t throw the “no switch”. Mission driven? Human nature? If one of the passengers had just a little bit of training perhaps they could have said no. PRM, Passenger Resource Management. More latter on this.