There was a Ryan Air one a while back at a German airport. They often race to the destination and fight for shorter/favourite runways. They left the computer programmed to the wrong runaway and almost binned it. Maybe a similar thing.
Flight from UK came within seconds of crashing into Lake Geneva
The aircraft was flying from Edinburgh , Scotland to Geneva Cointrin airport and was carrying 157 passengers on November 5 last year.www.dailymail.co.uk
How did this happen very close to disaster
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What? That's not really how aviation works at airliner level.
You mustn't fly enough. I've had the pilot countless times explain how they've agreed a short cut or alternative runway with less taxi time.
They just say stuff like that to keep the passengers content.
You can save the most amount of time on the ground with as you said something like a runway change, once you are in the air it’s really difficult to save time, any shortcuts in the air usually don’t really make a huge difference. This is why with LCC you will see them taxi very fast or take off at intersections.
