Originally Posted by
DAL 88 Driver
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.
In that case, it's amazing Comair didn't wreck a third of the fleet after the announcement in Sept. 2010. I can't even remember the big announcement days before 5191 - certainly it wasn't nearly as specific as we're cutting the airline in half. Maybe that was the first, but there've been so many since then they lost effect after a while.
I do remember flying the same flight two weeks later and having to ask Ground for a progressive to the runway. He thought I was being smart with him, but the charts didn't match what we saw out the window. That place was a mess.