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Old 15th Jul 2020, 15:50
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Anyone into counting cats? And, once you have done that for aircrew, you could start on ........ Engineering? ATC? Component suppliers? You know, at a personal level, it's far less stressful to look at the headline Safety figures rather than think too deeply about what contributes to those figures and, more importantly, what has nearly adjusted those figures but never been recorded (ie all the near-misses). How to solve it? Sheesh! Now there is a fortune to be made by the person who comes up with that "Holy Grail"!
Indeed but most of us here were raised and trained in a western culture and our manuals and rules designed originally with anglo-saxon rationale. We are judging those safety events on our western rational minds
Other Cultures often adapt those rules. Morocco is one of them .

Just finished to read the original (French report ) If you know a bit the country you can see some lines and remarks made by the BEAM are painting the reality .
The Domestic route network, local weather and lack of Nav infrastructure mean they have to "be flexible" as they say , but in this case we add the authority gradient , presence of a young female in the jumpseat, the relatively low experience FO being coached by an older CdB with lot of experience but on 737s.. where are using different routes and different airports .Perhaps the notion than an ATR can be flown like a light GA type., etc...The typical remark " we continue" (below minima) is heard all over the Southern Hemisphere , and even as North as in France until a few years ago ( e.g. Britair Brest CRJ100 /2003 ) Going below minima to have a look was probably done hundreds of time before by this CdB and it worked ... until now.
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A remark from the flighglobal article. quoted above. The capt did not report a bird strike to ATC ( according the CVR) , a bit of extra sensationalism maybe , did not expect this from Flightglobal..
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