Originally Posted by
Bucking Bar
I've long thought a contributory factor for that accident was the announcement the previous Thursday that the Company's flying was being put out to bid, with massive displacements and loss of income coming.
That is one of the first things I thought about when I first heard about that accident. We're all professionals and, by nature, are good at compartmentalizing stuff. But there's only so much pressure you can put on a human being without the risk of effecting performance. After a cumulative 42% pay cut, loss of pension, and outsourcing of thousands of our jobs, I think we were very lucky to get through 2005/2006 without some kind of major catastrophe.