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.