Originally Posted by
Capn Bloggs
Come on A squared. The allegation is that the Koreans were sledged almost immediately for stacking their aircraft because they were incompetent where there has been no such hint of that about the Birmingham prang.
Uhhh-huh, and if you recall, almost immediately, (much less than 24 hours) there was a statement from the carrier that there was no equipment failure involved, which 2 months and many NTSB press releases still appears to be accurate. And said lack of equipment failures pretty much removes all mitigating excuses for driving an airplane into the ground on a beautiful VFR day.
Originally Posted by Me
In your mind these accidents are essentially equivalent?
Originally Posted by
Capn Bloggs
Err, yes they are.
You're honestly unable to discern a meaningful difference between between flying an airplane into terrain which you *can't* see and flying an airplane into terrain which you *can* see ? Seriously?
Well, really not a lot more to be said then, other than to note that a person who is unwilling to concede the obvious is probably driven more by ideology than rationality. I've found that discussions which such are usually fruitless.