Originally Posted by
RickNRoll
Often "not following procedures" means "overloaded". It would only take one difficult passenger to cause problems.
Granted the "See and avoid" "procedure" is a central philosophy to traffic management in G - but "not following procedures" is only a reasonable explanation for an accident if the procedures themselves are easily understood and applied in an operational context. The Australian regulatory environment these days is anything but...
Yes, "Procedures" would have - and
should have - prevented this, but they
didn't. We don't need
more procedures to fix a problem
existing procedures should have averted, we need to understand why the
existing procedures didn't work. "Procedures" also say "Stop at a stop sign / give way to the right / wear a seatbelt / etc" but we still killed 1,100 people on the roads last year, and nobody blinks an eye.
Humans are humans so Occam's razor still applies. Sometimes, it's nothing more than "**** happens". In a perfect world, it wouldn't, but it
ain't a perfect world.
What pisses me off more than the accident itself, is the ATSB refused to investigate the Gympie mid-air barely 6 weeks ago, yet they're out in force for this one. What is so different? Because "passengers" were involved?
Originally Posted by The ATSB
"The ATSB would only investigate accidents such the Kybong mid-air collision on an exception basis, as its resources permit, where conducting such an investigation has the potential to highlight wider safety issues."
What's the "wider safety issue" to investigate here? Bind freddy can tell you what happened...Two more aircraft have collided in Class G because one didn't give way to the other.