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Originally Posted by Dadhawk
My understanding is this covers accidents, which qualify as the more serious type as @ p1l0t points out, and usually involve some aspect of flight.
In the end, its a risky endeavor, but like any the risk can be managed and those involved in it understand and accept the risk. |
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Originally Posted by Dadhawk
And that's where it gets sticky. A fatal crash resulting from a pilot attempting to make an engine out landing could be classified as a "pilot error" if the pilot makes a decision that takes a survivable accident and turns it into a fatal accident, even though the pilot would not have made the error had the engine not failed.
The pilot error is not the root cause of the accident, but it is the root cause of the fatality.
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Well yeah it's ALWAYS the pilot's fault. To the point sometimes it seems that unless you have concrete science to blame an engineer or something the pilot should never have got out of bed in the morning. It's like when there is a weather related accident and they say well the pilot never should have departed to begin with. And there is some truth to that, actually most our decision planning (including contingency plans for our contingency plans) are made before we even launch. That being said if I decided not to fly everytime there was a thunderstorm in the forecast I would have flown all of about 3 days this summer. And summer is the high season when we make all the money.
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http://philip.greenspun.com/flying/safety
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