[quote=FlyJSH;478739]there but for the grace of ... go I
If you haven't made such a mistake, count yourself lucky. Humans make human mistakes. I have (I was just lucky I didn't bend a plane). I only hope next time I will have someone in the other seat to catch my error.
Before you judge, remember you may make such a mistake one day.
If you are inferring that I judge then I'm sorry.
If judging means looking at what I see in the picture and wonder about what sight picture that young man was seeing when he thought he was on glideslope and managed to hit a truck on the road....well....then I guess I did. that must be the safety officer coming out in me because that is exactly what I would do. I sit and wonder what went wrong and then I would discuss it with my peers while sitting around the ready room and then hopefully it would stick in someone's head during the next approach.
Not that I will probably ever see the final NTSB investigation on this mishap but if this had been from my community it would eventually be presented to the command and used as a learning tool.
USMCFLYR