Things I heard at the Southwest gate today...

[Atman]

3. It doesn't sound all that strange when you look at it...

The two airports are very close. Both are single-strip runways. When you're way up in the air (I'm trying to express this in my best layman's terms), you see a bunch of lights. They have a switch -- or transponder or whatever you call it -- on the plane that activates the runway lights. They are not left on all the time at these small airports. So, SW clicked their clicker and the runway lights lit up. But they lit up at two different airports. In a place like this, there are so few flights that it is not expected that a full staff is in the tower...they winged it, so to speak. They had two small single-runway airports within close proximity of each other (remember, they weren't flying at 60 mph on a turnpike, they were several hundred feet above ground air moving fast). With not contact to the tower, so maybe they fucked up.

Maybe.

Maybe they were drunk, maybe it was Denzel Washington flying the plane, maybe maybe maybe.

Maybe you can sit back and take a fucking breath.