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Old 17th Oct 2014, 12:01
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Count Niemantznarr
 
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Considering it is nearly a year since this accident, most professional pilots here must wonder why there has not been any official report published into what caused the aircraft to taxy into a building.

British Airways have taken a view on this as the flight crew are back flying. If they were not to blame, who was? Far less serious accidents than this and the circumstances surrounding the chain of events are aired for the benefit of all professional crew to learn by. In this case, there does not appear to be any rush to get any information out.

If an aircraft is leaking fuel on stand, it is a normal procedure to get the passengers as soon as possible off via a rapid disembarkation. In Johannesburg the airport authorities took a very long time to respond to this accident and provide steps. The debate regarding risk of keeping the passengers on an aircraft haemorraghing fuel compared to the risk of injury evacuating can go on ad infinitum. But those dramatic comments about people being killled or seriously injured, are only meant to support the actions or inactions of the flight crew. No passengers were killed or seriously injured in a night time evacation on the stand at Phoenix a few years ago.

Pilots are only second to doctors in covering up mistakes and sticking together. "He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone" seems to be the order of the day.
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