Old 09-01-2009 | 02:13 PM
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Originally Posted by findinantherjob
1. 3407 happened because of pilot error (not fatigue)
2. When a pilot agrees to sleep in a crew room because he/she cant afford a crash pad (or to move to a domicile), that pilot is perpetuating the problem, making life worse for all other pilots. It is not managements' fault or the fault of congress.
My point wasn't so much what caused that accident. Definitely not one single cause, but nobody can argue against fatigue being a factor. More so being we have pilots on reserve basically living in the crew room without a crashpad. Sleeping there for days on end, sometimes the only time they leave the airport is when they get a called for a flight. I'm sure this happens at various companies and will eventually lead to an accident due to fatigue, inattentiveness, whatever you want to call it.
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