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Old 6th Dec 2004, 06:47
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Far Canard
 
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When the employee of a company flies one of its perfectly good aircraft into the ground, it is called "Controlled Flight Into Terrain".

The reasons are many, but mainly a lack of situational awareness. The world has moved on from the Erebus CFIT accident and the thousands of others and has produced TAWS.

When humans are involved you will always be potentially seconds from disaster.

No airline would ever let one of it's aircraft fly without insurance, even if the pilot was "ACE OF THE BASE", simply far too risky.

Put this one to bed and thank technology for TAWS. The next step will be taking the pilot completely out of the picture as an added safeguard.
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