Whenever I get a spare hour (pretty rare) I'll watch an episode of Air Crash Investigations. The other day I watched one on Singapore Airlines Flight 006, which took off from the wrong runway in Taipei in 2000 (it crashed partway down the runway because the runway was closed for construction works and there was construction equipment on it). I went back to my photos of the airport from a few years ago and found the exact spot that the mistake happened.
The planes at the back are coming up the taxiway about to turn right. Just behind the plane in the foreground you can see a turnoff to our left. That's where the plane that crashed turned down, instead of coming all the way out to the runway we are about to land on.
Sad times..
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