I am still amazed how some contributors just don't 'get it'.
I say again that this thread is not about egos, nor is it much about apportioning blame. Mostly it is about furthering understanding of the apparent hazard of the propensity of some pilots to fail to identify or acknowledge evidence of contaminated flying surfaces on their aircraft.
Taking a principal argument from one of the articles linked to in the xetroV's post above ('Do Bad Apples exist?') : "Punishment for wrongdoing is not a deterrent when the actions of the operators involved were actually examples of “right-doing”—the operators were acting in the best interests of those charged to their care, but made an “honest mistake” in the process; this is the case in many operational accidents."
How on earth does that sit with the example we have been discussing here? It doesn't, not at all.
Comprehension of the philosophy maybe as shallow as comprehension of the science in some quarters...
Last edited by slip and turn; 16th Dec 2007 at 16:52.