Originally Posted by
roscoe1
Perhaps I wasn't clear enough. The root cause was that the pilot didn't take enough care in picking a landing spot because they were complacent about using the painted marks, or simply didn't take enough time to see what they were looking at. If you think that wasn't the root cause what would you suggest? Surely not that the stationary ship was poorly positioned?
A root cause is either a 'Process', a 'Responsibility' or a 'Resource' failure and once determine by analysis should be corrected so it cannot reoccur.
What appears to have happened here could happen again.