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Old 1st June 2007 | 13:35
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Double Zero
 
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I am not ex-airline, though know quite a few chums who are ( I used to work for BAe with military jets ).

This is a really sad state of affairs, where it seems to me ALL you above posters are right !

Obviously it should be the over-riding imperative that all possible info' is available freely, without apportioning blame - but in reality the factors of the media and short term thinking management ( and my god have I seen plenty of that !!! ) are problems for a better mind than mine...

Perhaps all that can be done in the short term is a sort of quiet gossip ( as no doubt happens now ) between air & ground crew.

This is of course open to distortion & inaccuracy, be it vindictive or just the ' Chinese whispers ' effect.

On a slightly different note, the RAF used to publish a very useful bulletin called 'Feedback' - don't know if they still do but I somehow doubt it.

Whoever put that together was bright enough to realise that while dealing with very serious issues, by putting a humourous slant on it whenever possible, it was much more readily absorbed.

Why else, after all these years, would I remember the case under the ' Birdstrike ' heading about a groundcrew member concussed by a frozen chicken falling from a Chinook cargo net ?!

The point about securing loads etc still got through, as did the 'Radio Controlled Tornado' mentioning a Tornado landing after a low level sortie who found he'd collected a large model aircraft down an intake - he'd flown through a site known for the things...

As to the wider problem you deal with above, doesn't seem anything can happen until people can actually be applauded for admitting they and / or their equipment are not perfect but do everything they can.

ie a more intelligent attitude agreed between manufacturers & operators - politics including nationalities put aside for the common good, so that's likely isn't it !

If it somehow did come about, it might lead the media with nowhere to go ( I suspect SLF are generally more intelligent than given credit, but it would not do any single operator to own up alone ! ), this seems to me a major issue.
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