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Old 19th Oct 2020, 21:52
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Originally Posted by [email protected]
Sounds like a bit of a whitewash - clear negligence by the crew!
A bit harsh, but I suppose a reasonable response from someone who has never made a mistake.

They made a mistake, but not from lack of interest or lack of workload. They were concentrating on the approach and doing their best, but clearly they were not concentrating on the right things and as it turns out, their best wasn’t good enough. You can call that negligence if you like, but to most people negligence is associated with not bothering or caring. If they had been texting their wives/girlfriends at the time then I would cry “negligence”. But otherwise, “negligence” is just an emotive word for “they got it wrong” and would only be uttered by someone who thinks it could never happen to them.

Of course it is pathetically easy to call it negligence, but it requires a bit of intelligence, effort and insight to work out WHY they made the mistakes they did. Which is necessary if there is any interest in preventing a recurrence.. But of course some people are just happy to blame the pilots and that be an end to it.
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