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Old 3rd Dec 2003, 05:40
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Whilst not disagreeing with your observations on total hours and experience, it would be disappointing for ‘inexperience’ to be given a contributing factor in this or any accident.

At some stage in our flying careers we have been or still are, inexperienced. Thus taking your point to the extreme then all of us may contribute to an accident; that contribution I suggest is not one of inexperience, but of human error.

Inexperienced pilots, either by low hours or by less exposure to a range of situations may make different mistakes from those made by the more experienced pilots. We all make mistakes; it is more likely to be the way that the more experienced pilots mitigate their errors or recover from mistakes that prevents their accidents. Thus the problem for the industry to solve is how to provide the less experienced crews with error detection, mitigation, and recovery techniques. Whilst previously this was seen to be airmanship, regrettably today it requires more rules and procedures with the associated loss of flexibility.

The accident investigation needs to identify the specific errors that contributed to this accident and the causes of the errors.
“There are no such things as accidents. What we call an accident is the effect of some cause which we did not see” - after Voltaire

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