Originally Posted by
Downwind.Maddl-Land
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.
"We are at take-off" was the last transmission, but lest we forget, the cockpit voice recorder continued:
Flight engineer:
Is hij er niet af, die Pan American? [Is he not clear, that Pan American?]
Captain:
Jawel. [Oh yes. (emphatic)]
12 seconds later:
Captain: Oh ****!
(sound of collision)