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Old 30th Oct 2004, 05:04
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Dengue_Dude
 
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Don't we live in a BLAME culture?

The crew had ONE failure - be completely clear about it. ONE failure should not cause the potential loss of the aircraft.

Let's substitute the word RESPONSIBILITY for the word 'blame'.

Given the HANDLING of their one failure, once it had resulted in the double hush - they then did quite well.

When they shave in the morning they are looking at the people responsible for getting into the more serious situation in the first place.

Computer fault, engine component failures, Murphy's etc aside - they were NOT the reason for a double flameout.

The crew WERE.

Remember a SINGLE component failure - isn't ETOPS based upon that? But, competently handled, it is SAFE.



They are paid as professionals, trained as professionals, trusted by the pax as professionals and sadly didn't act like professionals UNTIL they ended up with no engines - then in many respects they redeemed themselves (out of sheer desperation probably, nevertheless everybody got out and I suppose that's the result that sticks in the travelling public's mind).

It's really that simple. All the rest is moving air around at 37 degrees C.

edited for grammar this time DD
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