Originally Posted by
411A
Crew 'fatigue?'
Phooey.
They had the mandated rest, and that should be sufficient.
Sorry, so-called fatigue, as well as poor pay are red herrings with this accident.
You just don't get it, do you dude.
Not everything is black and white. Regulations are built for black and white. But the real world is grey, with many hidden, underlying factors.
I don't care if they had a scheduled 30 hour overnight. That doesn't mean that they were well rested, does it? Maybe there were un-controlable factors that influenced their rest. For example, what where the conditions at the hotel? Where they scheduled for an early departure following a series of late departures?
I'm not debating that the accident was not the crew's fault. They messed up, there is no debating that. But most pilots these days would agree that accidents have many contributing factors. Without these, the accident may have happened, or it may have not.
We can't say to pilots "stop making mistakes". That doesn't work. What we can do, is analyze procedures and modify them to make it less likely that this type of accident occurs again.