TAXIING IN; AN AVRO 146 CREW WAS INSTRUCTED TO CROSS RWY 22L; BUT THEN INSTRUCTED TO STOP BECAUSE OF DEPARTING TFC.

Narrative

AFTER LNDG ON RWY 22R AT DTW WE WERE INSTRUCTED TO TAXI VIA VICTOR AND HOLD SHORT OF RWY 22L ON VICTOR. AS WE APCHED THE HOLD SHORT LINE ON VICTOR WE WERE INSTRUCTED TO CROSS RWY 22L AND CONTACT GND CLRING RWY 22L. AFTER XING THE HOLD SHORT LINE I NOTICED SOME LIGHTS TO MY LEFT MOVING TO THE R. BEING AT NIGHT; I WAS NOT SURE IF THESE LIGHTS WERE AN ACFT; AN ACFT ON THE RWY OR PARALLEL TXWY OR JUST AN ACFT TAXING ON THE RWY. SIMULTANEOUSLY AS I REALIZED THIS WAS AN ACFT ON THE TKOF ROLL; THE TWR CTLR INSTRUCTED US TO 'STOP! STOP! STOP!' I USED FULL BRAKE PRESSURE TO STOP THE ACFT AND ESTIMATE THAT THE DEPARTING ACFT'S RIGHT WINGTIP WAS LESS THAN 75 FT FROM OUR ACFT. THE CTLR APOLOGIZED PROFUSELY AND RECLRED US ACROSS RWY 22L. I BELIEVE THAT NIGHT VISUAL ILLUSIONS CONTRIBUTED TO MY INITIAL DELAY IN USING FULL BRAKES; AS WELL AS ROUTINELY XING RWYS WITH ACFT IN 'POSITION AND HOLDING' OR TAXING ON IT WHERE A SIMPLE 'CLR LEFT' OR 'CLR RIGHT' COULD NOT BE ACCOMPLISHED. ALSO I BELIEVE THAT THE DEPARTING ACFT WAS UTILIZING A DIFFERENT TWR FREQ; SO NEITHER ACFT COULD HEAR THE OTHER'S CLRNC; WHICH MAY HAVE ALERTED ME SOONER TO THE NEAR-MISS. SUPPLEMENTAL INFO FROM ACN 537463: ANOTHER FACTOR; WAS THAT MY FULL ATTENTION WAS NOT OUTSIDE THE ACFT. WHEN I DID LOOK TO THE LEFT MY EYES WERE FOCUSED ON THE ACFT ON FINAL AND DUE TO ALL THE LIGHTS ON THE GND I DID NOT EVEN SEE THE ACFT ON TKOF ROLL. I ALSO DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY NEITHER OF US HEARD THE TWR ISSUE A TKOF CLRNC TO THE B727. I ALSO BELIEVE THE CTLR WAS PREOCCUPIED WITH GIVING US THE PROPER GND FREQ THEREFORE; FORGOT ABOUT THE ACFT THAT WAS CLRED TO TKOF ON THE RWY WE WERE CLRED TO TAXI ACROSS. IF THE CTLR'S XMISSION WOULD HAVE BEEN 'BLOCKED' I AM SURE MY CAPT WOULD NOT HAVE STOPPED IN TIME TO AVOID A CATASTROPHE. CALLBACK CONVERSATION WITH RPTR REVEALED THE FOLLOWING INFO: RPTR STATED AFTER XING THE RWY; THE CTLR APOLOGIZED PROFUSELY BEFORE CHANGING THE CREW TO GND CTL. HE SAID IT WAS NOT BUSY AT THE TIME AND THERE WERE NO ACFT TAXIING AHEAD OF HIS FLT. THE RPTR AGREED THAT THE DEPARTING ACFT WAS ALREADY MOVING WHEN THEY RECEIVED A CLRNC TO CROSS THE RWY. HE SAID HE QUICKLY REALIZED THE MOVING LIGHT HE SAW WAS THE DEPARTING ACFT. HE HAD MENTIONED THE INCIDENT TO ANOTHER PLT WHO LATER TOLD HIM ON FLYING INTO DTW AND TAXIING IN ON V TXWY; THAT THERE WERE BLACK SKID MARKS TOO NEAR THE RWY 22L EDGE.