Originally Posted by
SASless
Care to tell us why you think these things happen to well trained and experienced crews?
What JuJu works to line up all those holes in the Cheese that lets landing on the wrong deck happen?
Because human beings are fallible and when you build platforms that look very similar close together, give them similar sounding names and then ask pilots to fly multiple sectors to them (more often than not under circumstances that are likely to induce fatigue and often worrying about the latest round of redundancies too) you are creating a situation where mistakes can occur.
It's been happening for as long a pilots have been landing on oil rigs.
It has serious potential dangers as listed by others.
Technological mitigations exist, such as red wave off lights / green deck clear lights but oil companies will not pay for these (Although safety is their number one priority) and operators won't insist because they are in a perpetual contract negotiation merry-go-round.
OH