Originally Posted by
West Coast
We as an industry can always do better. I simply tire of reading comments that indicate things were better back when the poster was actively involved in aviation.
I'm sure that somewhere within the records there is a similar event from many decades ago,in which basic airmenship slipped up. Old time skills or not.
Sometimes we need to stop and remember this is the safest modern transport aviation has ever been before comments about the good old days come up. In 20 years hopefully it will be even safer, yet the I remember when folks will still be around.
Let us not tire or disregard history. Off course a lot of accidents happened in the past due to equipment failures and a host of other deficiencies - now corrected or improved - which we now take for granted. I do not think nor subscribe to the notion that the old days were better or safer, but just that you had to be a lot more careful back then or you got burnt literally