Originally Posted by
monkey416
the whole mayday vs declaring an emergency discussion is ridiculous. who cares.
These are life-threatening situations being discussed and examined here, with a bleeding obvious Murphy, Gotcha, Swiss-cheese* moment staring the industry in the face.
Everyone
should care; nobody appears to; right up until there is a "We are at take-off" moment.**
When everyone (especially on here!) will bleat: "Well that should have been closed-out YEARS ago...."
*delete/insert colloquialism of choice
**for the hard of understanding - the last transmission from a certain KLM flight at Tenerife 27 Mar 77.