Originally Posted by
Car RAMROD
It is highly likely that if he chose to turn around or take some other safe course of action they would both be alive today, no?
Will you at least admit that?
probably not.
It’s a bit like saying if the pilot got out of bed 5 minutes later, it wouldn’t have happened, or if he had taken a different longer route to the airport or got a coffee on the way, it wouldn’t have happened. They could have also been broadsided by a semi trailer on the way to the airport.
Swiss cheese.
If the road block airspace wasn’t there, this *most* likely wouldn’t have happened.
You can change some things and others you can’t.
If you can change things for the better by a procedural or administrative change, then make the change to the airspace so that this hole in the Swiss cheese is closed off and the holes don’t line up for the next guy who comes along.
So what if the next guy hasn’t done his BFR and isn’t carrying a WAC, we can’t control that other than through punitive measures, but what we can control is the roadblock ahead. Why have a freeway in the sky that nobody can use when somebody else is using it?