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Continental 757 crew misidentified lights before taxiway landing
This sounds pretty incredible that this could actually happen - especially if you look at the size and (somewhat) crooked nature of the taxiway to the north of runway 29 (the one that is 20 degrees off East-West) - have a look here
The incident actually occurred back on October 2006, but the NTSB has only just released it's report.US investigators have concluded that misidentification of Newark's runway 29 lighting during a night-time approach led to a Continental Airlines Boeing 757-200 crew landing on a parallel taxiway.
This sounds pretty incredible that this could actually happen - especially if you look at the size and (somewhat) crooked nature of the taxiway to the north of runway 29 (the one that is 20 degrees off East-West) - have a look here