The headline on one of the Chicago major daily newspapers, in the vending box in one of the O'Hare terminals, shouted the startling news, that a Korean 747 had been shot down by the Russians. It might not have been tanks lined up at CheckPoint Charlie in Berlin in the Kennedy Administration, but it certainly was Cold War vibrations.
But regardless, in this time when Big Data and Artificial Intelligence and various other technologies and organizational techniques are gaining more traction and presence in everything related to civil aviation, is it really the case that command echelons and responsibilities from back in the days of the Cold War are the standards by which incidents are assessed and evaluated? By which corrective actions are determined and sought to be implemented? As I am looking closely still at the new Canadian report, for now, I'll just say if the Cold War operating mindset is what the yardstick is said to be calibrated in, WR 6-3 dissents.