Originally Posted by
KC10 FATboy
You need to grow up and stop trying to legitamize aircrew errors/accidents because of the errors made by other aircrew -- even if it happened to a major airline aircrew.
If you don't see or understand the difference between this crew and that of one who had a medical emergency onboard after flying all night for an early morning landing and then suddenly be given a sidestep to a runway with no ALS operating and overshot it and landed on the parallel taxiway ... I think you have some big issues. Clearly you aren't capable of having an honest and intellectual conversation about aviation accidents.
You need to grow up, and STOP trying to legitimize an error made by major airline flight crew who failed to exercise SOP's, failed to verify/crosscheck, failed to back each other up, failed at CRM, failed to notice there was NOTHING what so ever resembling a runway before they landed.
If you don't understand that a major airline crew can completely screw up and kill people the same as a regional crew can, clearly you aren't capable of having an honest and intellectual conversation about aviation accidents.
But yeah, keep trying to rationalize why people in ATL aren't dead. They were lucky, NOT good.
Who here in an emergency situation is going to accept runway changes from a controller in a situation that has so much potential for error?
Jungle says it best;
Originally Posted by
jungle
All of us need to learn from the most inexpensive school of all-the mistakes of others. Major or Regional it makes no difference. See and avoid.
Majors have their share of blunders-if you have ever looked at FOQA data you know there are plenty of mistakes for everyone. We can walk away from most of them, but physics does not respect age or experience or pay. It is the one true equal opportunity destroyer.