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Old 19th Aug 2014, 23:32
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@edmundronald: I feel unease any time an "able bodied" person crashes an aircraft, but curiously in those cases, it's always "let's wait for the facts before blaming the pilots", aka, "human error".

Don't make me sit here and dig up every report for a heavy landing in turbulence (resulting in structural damage/death), or videos on YouTube of pilots landing when a go-around would have been prudent, or the very recent event of an aircraft taking off with funnel cloud activity in the immediate vicinity of the airport no less. Micro-burst anyone? They got lucky.

In light of the comments in this thread, those above situations have ZERO EXCUSE for occurring, but I don't see anyone making the kinds of criticism seen here.
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