Originally Posted by donstim
Originally Posted by PBL
Southwest went off the end of a snowy runway at Chicago Midway and killed a car passenger because deployment of reversers was significantly delayed over the assumed deployment time in their landing-distance calculation.
There are many other factors that also contributed to that accident. Let's be careful in stating a single "cause," especially when the final accident report has not yet been published.
Let's also be careful in reading things into statements that aren't there. The word "because" does not imply "only".
It is ironic that the NTSB itself is the most influential remaining proponent of the "single cause" explanation.
PBL