Originally Posted by
PIPErdrvr
I personally find it difficult to compare a human life to a "box of cargo", so I will just ignore that remark!
Finally, what would be wrong with everyone hearing about how to avoid this mistake and incorporating it into training curriculum. Isn't that the idea??? To teach people how to avoid his mistakes??
I'm not saying the folks were only as valuable as boxes, what I'm saying is that the outcome would not have been any different if the plane was full of people, pets, pesticide or paper. That's why I try to look beyond the deaths, and analyze him as a pilot.
Secondly, to clarify- I think he'd be useful as an instructor, but only for a time. Once he's taught all he knows, what's going to separate him from any other instructor? Let him go back on the line then get some more experience so that when he retires at 65, he'll have a whole lot more to teach, both in the cockpit and in the sim.