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Old 5th May 2009, 13:50
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So what to do? Are you saying these kinds of risks cannot be reduced?
Some operators have a long history of dangerous practices which can largely be blamed on ethnic culture centred around an unshakeable belief of "my Deity will always protect me". A numb acceptance of what will be, will be.

You can debate the subject ad nauseum but what is certain is that cultural mores should have have no place on the flight deck. Where it exists then sooner or later there will be dangerous and undisclosed close shaves where to these pilots their personal Deity does his job and saves the day - or he doesn't step in and people die. Forget James Reason and all the other books of that genre. Interesting stuff to the interested, but gobbly-dook to a culture driven pilot.
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