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Old 3rd Oct 2010, 23:43
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MountainBear
 
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Those of us in the industry take a calm measured and analytical approach to incidents/accidents however small they are.
Indeed we do. We also recognize when an incident is "small" and when an incident is a "big deal".

An airplane crash is a big deal. This is not.*

*at least based upon the information we have right now.

So don't just look at the actual outcome(muddy nose-gear),
That's just nonsense. Of course you have to think of the actual outcome because...and I know this is a hard concept to grasp...it's the actual, factual, real-life outcome. Safety professionals are supposed to ignore the actual outcome in favor of some hypothetical crash into the sea.

Any sensible safety system builds in a margin of error. The utilization of that margin of error is not a safety failure. It's a safety success.
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