Originally Posted by
HundredPercentPlease
They have not considered how HF will affect their operation, in the event of a serious problem.
They are therefore not prepared.
If we just blame the pilots for being a bit crap, then nothing in the industry will improve.
Can we please focus on how we contribute to make the industry better (safer)?
Very well said ! Glad to see some common sense coming back and shifting the discussion to at least half the problem in both these accidents : human factors.
Training on a simulator for abnormal situations to create automatism works well, but not everybody will react the same way when confronted with the REAL emergency.
For instance how do you explain how a 55 years old captain with 16.000h assisted with an FE with 19.500h can reject a take off after V1 (and even VR ) contrary to all SOPs and maybe dozens and dozens of SIM sessions ?
This happened in 1982 with a DC10 , and in that era , incident investigations reports had 20+ pages on human factors . The aim was to understand what went in the head of the captain in order to make the system better not blaming individuals .
PPRuNe did not exist in 1982, but I am sure it it had, there would have been thousands of posts blaming the crew. but the reports says differently..
The report of that accident is on line if you have time to spare, the HF part is very good. :
Malaga DC10 1982