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The other side of the news: what do you think?
EHM-0948 Bruno:
Put me that Saab 2000 on my hands and I will tell that pilot how to land with fog! ;D
.... I wonder what happened if, at the departure airport it had fog too .... lol
EHM-2097 Andrei:
--- Quote ---Originally posted by EHM-0948 Bruno
Put me that Saab 2000 on my hands and I will tell that pilot how to land with fog! ;D
.... I wonder what happened if, at the departure airport it had fog too .... lol
--- End quote ---
The second question is troubling indeed, but as pointed out above the blame should be for the company not the pilot. And I assume the company was sued (especially if some angry passengers got nervous about the delay and eventually beat their spouses ;D )
Back to the pilots... in the end, what they did was sticking to the regulations. And regulations may be wrong BUT statistics show more planes crashed due to people not sticking to "right" regulations than planes saved from crash by not observing "wrong" regulations.
And Bruno, of course you know what to do, as we all do here, but let's not forget that we all (or almost) have some "documented crashes" too, which RL pilots don't - fortunately.
As far as I m concerned, if I am a passenger and the pilot announces that chances to land uneventfully are 99% OR he can turn back, well, I prefer the latter. And, to see the bright side of the story, this makes two flights for the price of one!
Andrei
EHM-2381 Ted:
1-Good pilot in my opinion. Knew his limitations and rather than risk lives/property he turned back. Of course this begs the question of why he was at the controls in the first place but thats another story. Folks with more pride than sense may have tried to land regardless and made the situation go from embarrassing to deadly.
2-Yanks will sue for anything...especially stupid stuff. Double-especially when they need somone other than themselves to blame for actions. I'm a Yank btw :].
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