Originally Posted by
rock-the-boat
I wonder if anybody understands what this crew is facing not just today or this week but potentially for the remainder of their lives.
This is something that is distressing about our society.
We expect pilots/controllers/engineers/[insert profession here] to push the limits on performance, weather, costs. If one makes a safety call, eg a diversion, the response is often “why, it would have been fine”. Yet if something goes wrong, it is “how could you have done this”.
You can never prove the safety call was “necessary”, i.e. that there would have been an accident, and you can never prove that pressure caused an (in hindsight) poor choice.
And yet we pick on individuals who make hard calls.