Originally Posted by
Winemaker
Is this a training issue in that it seems the most important part, keeping the plane flying, has become secondary?
Per your logic world should be perfect and every pilot should always respond in a most efficient way. But we live in a different world, we live in a world in which a professional pilot with paying passengers is capable of taking off from wrong runway or even a taxiway, or landing on a wrong runway, in other words big errors are possible in a perfectly well functioning aircraft so it should be of no surprise to you that when things no longer go 'perfect' - even bigger errors can ensue.