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Old 09-05-2018, 04:55 PM   #47906
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Originally Posted by p1l0t View Post
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.

You might like this article:
http://philip.greenspun.com/flying/safety

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