Originally Posted by
ExDeltaPilot
Gee Lab Rat - I'm glad you're perfect. Most of us have been lucky enough that our mistakes haven't cost anybody their life personally or the lives of those they worked. I guarantee none of the people in my flying career that died because they made a mistake did it on purpose and that's one of the things we all have to live with. I'm sure the crew of the Comair flight didn't step into the airplane saying we're going to see if we can take off on the wrong runway that's too short so we can kill ourselves and everyone on the plane.
NOW, if they had been doing something stupid (like all the drunk driving deaths that occur on our highways) where someone has a choice and knows they shouldn't be driving - that's different.
Climb off your cloud, take off your halo and join the rest of the imperfect human race.
Gee Lab Rat - I'm glad you're perfect.
Care to show me where in my post I said that I was??
I'll explain my point clearly for you since you have obviously missed it. A lot of people seem to think that this was just a simple mistake. Well, it was a mistake and it was one that could have happened to any of us. The context of my post is
not to Monday-morning quarterback the actions of the crew. My point is to show that some here need to have a little sympathy for the victims' families.
I think it is very unprofessional to admonish those who are filing lawsuits and to just chock it up to "mistakes happen". I highly doubt anyone would be filing lawsuits if luggage were missing. Unfortunatley that isn't the case. Now whether you, I or anyone else feels that these lawsuits are the right or wrong thing to do is irrelevant. The families have been through an experience that most, if not all of us cannot even begin to imagine, and I think they have the right to do whatever they feel they need to do.
Climb off your cloud, take off your halo and join the rest of the imperfect human race.
You first.