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Patrick wrote:
"That's a sizable difference, unlike the parallel strips found at some airports -- and even those are difficult to confuse. For good measure, one aviation resource site describes Runway 26's surface as: "asphalt/concrete, in poor condition. CONCRETE IS SEVERELY CRACKED."
Yet other news reports assert that the runway was repaved last week, meaning it would NOT match descriptions available to the pilots, particularly key if they were unfamiliar with the airport.
Not enough by itself to explain the error, but surely the NTSB will name this as a contributing factor.
