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Old 2nd Aug 2007, 00:08
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TripleBravo
 
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people behave as they do because it makes sense to do so.
Repetition does not help to this becoming true.

There are many examples against, but one did stick in my head: An airplane (100+ Pax) landed, suffered exceptional deceleration, all wheels deflated - the pilots did have the parking brake on whilst touching down. As far as I know, nobody was seriously injured, but on a small wet runway things could have developed other than that.

Does this make any sense to do so for any pilot? For sure not and don't tell me it "made sense". (I looked it up, parking brake was no check item neither in the checklists of that particular aircraft nor in any other I am aware of. Maybe because you cannot foresee every(bad)thing human beings are able to do?)

People not always behave like they do simply because it "makes sense". Psychology is far more complex and obviously this applies also to professional pilots on duty. (Hopefully less than average, but....)


Disclaimer: This is no statement against the poor guys of JJ3054 and implies nothing particular with this flight, it is against wrong simplification.
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