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When will you guys stop associating an excess of alchohol with fatigue? Yes, both cause accidents, but some are self-inflicted.
The Dhc-8Q400 debate smacks very largely of fatigue and pilot ineptitude, but the fatigue there appears to have been self-inflicted, according to reports, so it was not down to a fatiguing roster. Rather the pilots lived so far away and were paid so little, they had no alternative but to turn up for work incapable?
Airlines that roster pilots to the point of fatigue, even if such rosters are "legal", have an argument to defend, but at the end of the day, the buck stops with the pilot. If you drink and go flying or you go flying when you are unfit, through illness or fatigue, then you are liable for whatever happens. Goes with the territory. If you don't like the consequences, then go get a desk job. The fact you dreamt of flying since you were 2 yrs old did not give you the right to do it!