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Forum: Rumours & News
6th Jul 2020, 23:18
Replies: 1,219
Views: 777,550
Posted By WillowRun 6-3

3-Year anniversary of Air Canada 759 taxiway incident KSFO

July 7 2017 - San Francisco . . . Air Canada 759 very narrowly misses a collision with aircraft awaiting clearance for departure on a taxiway, due to improper alignment on approach.
NTSB report on...
Forum: Rumours & News
3rd Sep 2017, 15:09
Replies: 1,219
Views: 777,550
Posted By WillowRun 6-3

Apple picking

KORD. So named, for Orchard Field, which in turn was named for Orchard Place, a small farming village northwest of Chicago. In the 1930s traffic was outgrowing Municipal Airport (the airport now...
Forum: Rumours & News
24th Aug 2017, 11:27
Replies: 1,219
Views: 777,550
Posted By WillowRun 6-3

peekay4 (no. 984): "When we talk about...

peekay4 (no. 984): "When we talk about punishment, we need to look at the bigger picture, not just this specific instance -- because punishment for operational mistakes sets a precedent regardless if...
Forum: Rumours & News
24th Aug 2017, 00:11
Replies: 1,219
Views: 777,550
Posted By WillowRun 6-3

Really there are two things at work here, aren't...

Really there are two things at work here, aren't there? I think your position tends to emphasize a kind of preventative as well as punitive purpose. These two pilots stuffed up so obviously and so...
Forum: Rumours & News
23rd Aug 2017, 23:53
Replies: 1,219
Views: 777,550
Posted By WillowRun 6-3

PPRuNe should cover the trial....

peekay4, good point. But. The Allegiant pilot was, if I am recalling correctly, defended in the forum thread pretty stridently or at least consistently, for having done the right thing. And the...
Forum: Rumours & News
23rd Aug 2017, 23:02
Replies: 1,219
Views: 777,550
Posted By WillowRun 6-3

Severity

peekay4, good thing I couldn't assess interest charges on borrowing my words. I was imprecise.
The most severe sanction to which reference was made, or within context of the argument by underfire,...
Forum: Rumours & News
23rd Aug 2017, 20:57
Replies: 1,219
Views: 777,550
Posted By WillowRun 6-3

Meanwhile ...

I'd like to offer some defense of underfire . . . about sanctions of crew, and whether anyone other than drivers situated in what they refer to as pointy ends can hold responsibility at the system...
Forum: Rumours & News
19th Aug 2017, 13:55
Replies: 1,219
Views: 777,550
Posted By WillowRun 6-3

Illusions, of both the optical and justification varieties

Pretty thoroughly, comprehensively, and rigorously indisputable that an air transport pilot is responsible for the safety of the people on board, certainly as a legal question. Does that mean that...
Forum: Rumours & News
18th Aug 2017, 05:25
Replies: 1,219
Views: 777,550
Posted By WillowRun 6-3

Incomplete Pass, er, Questions

Without getting into any of the contentions about the mechanics of flying specific approach profiles or the contours and structure of any of those profiles, there is one aspect of the, shall we call...
Forum: Rumours & News
16th Aug 2017, 13:00
Replies: 1,219
Views: 777,550
Posted By WillowRun 6-3

Some of the CVR

About several hundred posts ago peekay4 (IIRC) showed an analysis of the CVR 30-minutes duration after the go around (using evidently reliable time-stamp information). Wasn't it shown that of the 30...
Forum: Rumours & News
6th Aug 2017, 13:24
Replies: 1,219
Views: 777,550
Posted By WillowRun 6-3

Five-a-Side (or, the Law Schools teach how to emplace words - the course is Evidence)

1. underfire, let's assume your factual picture is painted with complete accuracy. Nonetheless, it is based only on what has emerged in the preliminary phases of the investigation. Further assume...
Forum: Rumours & News
6th Aug 2017, 01:31
Replies: 1,219
Views: 777,550
Posted By WillowRun 6-3

Reminds me of an expert witness I once cross-examined.....

No don't fret, that header was just an attention-getting device.
underfire, I think everyone concerned with safety and its improvement where and when improvement is shown to be needed agrees:...
Forum: Rumours & News
5th Aug 2017, 23:51
Replies: 1,219
Views: 777,550
Posted By WillowRun 6-3

Said it all better than I can

underfire, when you get a chance, you *could* look up and read NTSB Chair Hersman's separate statement which they made part of the Board report on the Colgan accident. It was linked in a prior post...
Forum: Rumours & News
4th Aug 2017, 14:39
Replies: 1,219
Views: 777,550
Posted By WillowRun 6-3

No. A mitigating factor is one which tempers a...

No. A mitigating factor is one which tempers a sanction, typically in support of reducing a sanction (but sometimes only in a pro forma manner). Not justification. And secondly, here the inquest is...
Forum: Rumours & News
4th Aug 2017, 13:30
Replies: 1,219
Views: 777,550
Posted By WillowRun 6-3

Yes, but.

I'd like to be able to articulate a view which gives the AC crew some degree of credit for having flown the approach well enough - minus the misalignment obviously - so that the physical separation...
Forum: Rumours & News
3rd Aug 2017, 17:19
Replies: 1,219
Views: 777,550
Posted By WillowRun 6-3

Hold on a minute

Quote: various posters subsequent to the NTSB information release yesterday, professing various conclusions about crew acts or omissions, and consequences, relative to sanctions, and system component...
Forum: Rumours & News
27th Jul 2017, 16:41
Replies: 1,219
Views: 777,550
Posted By WillowRun 6-3

But can the gorilla shoot free throws?

You're not alone in starting to ask about that, RAT 5. Quickly to say, there is little if any denying that what I have learned here is known as "attentional tunneling" quite likely played a large...
Forum: Rumours & News
25th Jul 2017, 17:03
Replies: 1,219
Views: 777,550
Posted By WillowRun 6-3

Figuring out causal links (plus a question)

A set of factors led up to this incident, and obviously not all of those factors yet are identified, let alone integrated into an overall narrative - but will the end result of the Board report be...
Forum: Rumours & News
23rd Jul 2017, 02:48
Replies: 1,219
Views: 777,550
Posted By WillowRun 6-3

Well put, peekay4. Anecdotally, a good many years...

Well put, peekay4. Anecdotally, a good many years ago I had a summer job assignment that led to an entire calendar month of midnight-to-8:00 a.m. shifts. Not flying anything - compiling production...
Forum: Rumours & News
19th Jul 2017, 15:43
Replies: 1,219
Views: 777,550
Posted By WillowRun 6-3

Question (probably not illusory) & a second question . . .

I've read somewhere that actual incidents or accidents are the best sources of inputs for improvement in safety systems and even larger upgrades in system architecture - and even more so where the...
Forum: Rumours & News
17th Jul 2017, 19:42
Replies: 1,219
Views: 777,550
Posted By WillowRun 6-3

There's no one on 2-8 Right but you

Acknowledging that both the NTSB and the TSB (CA) will conduct their typically exacting inquiries, still, it may be worth noting the categories into which some, at least, of those "lots of questions"...
Forum: Rumours & News
16th Jul 2017, 00:59
Replies: 1,219
Views: 777,550
Posted By WillowRun 6-3

No one asserted pilot incompetence

Let's back up. Kal's assertion was made in context of carriers, not individual pilots. Reply I posted likewise was completely in context of carriers, also - not individual pilots.
The facts are...
Forum: Rumours & News
14th Jul 2017, 23:58
Replies: 1,219
Views: 777,550
Posted By WillowRun 6-3

Oh really now, Kal Niranjan. It would be easier...

Oh really now, Kal Niranjan. It would be easier just to say, when any particular "non Western" carrier you would care to name in particular, one which has in your view been subject to scorn,...
Forum: Rumours & News
14th Jul 2017, 20:39
Replies: 1,219
Views: 777,550
Posted By WillowRun 6-3

CVR, Safety Management, & Facts

1. Precise and verified (as verified as possible) facts are not yet in hand - hopefully NTSB as well as TSB will produce. Sorry to be repeating a forum cliche in this sense. Yet this seems to need to...
Forum: Rumours & News
14th Jul 2017, 17:19
Replies: 1,219
Views: 777,550
Posted By WillowRun 6-3

Well, that's really cool, cool tech kit....

Well, that's really cool, cool tech kit. Except.....what percentage of Air Transport category aircraft will be equipped with it, at specified time intervals, say, 1 year, 3 years, and so on? I read...
Forum: Rumours & News
13th Jul 2017, 18:02
Replies: 1,219
Views: 777,550
Posted By WillowRun 6-3

About angled approach to KSFO 28R - I'm making no...

About angled approach to KSFO 28R - I'm making no claim about current approach designs at all (and also, not claiming that D-R-UK is wrong). The noise abatement factor had been raised by other...
Forum: Rumours & News
13th Jul 2017, 16:51
Replies: 1,219
Views: 777,550
Posted By WillowRun 6-3

Well, then, let's all sign off our call signs and...

Well, then, let's all sign off our call signs and just go home. And if we're taking a civil air transport flown by an ATP to get there, let's not worry whether noise abatement restrictions have a...
Forum: Rumours & News
12th Jul 2017, 16:43
Replies: 1,219
Views: 777,550
Posted By WillowRun 6-3

Posted by deSitter: "Another example would be...

Posted by deSitter: "Another example would be Comair in Lexington."


The Comair crash was the focus of a presentation recently, in Montreal (McGill), by an official (of the U.S. Justice Dep't)...
Forum: Rumours & News
12th Jul 2017, 14:15
Replies: 1,219
Views: 777,550
Posted By WillowRun 6-3

Swiss cheese on your (significance) burger?

Is it not still the case, where fundamentals as well as operational practices and methods are concerned, that the basic model for safety is stated as "not having the holes in the Swiss cheese line...
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