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Old 31st Jul 2011, 05:26
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MountainBear
 
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I deleted my prior post because frankly it was hot-tempered. Let me try to be more civil and to the point.

At this stage in the aviation industry's development it is clear that airline accidents have become nothing more than blame game with software designer/engineers on one side, hardware manufactures on the other, and the pilots stuck right in the middle. Rather than either of the primary culprits taking responsibility the industry's response to every accident is to trot out PILOT TRAINING as the grand panacea that will cure all the ills.

This accident is the poster child for pilots taking the heat when the real culprits are (a) poorly thought out software design decisions and (b) flaky hardware. That doesn't mean that I think the pilots performance was mistake free. But it's obvious that they were set up to fail and MOAR TRAINING is not the answer to the problem.
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