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Exactly. The most vulnerable part of the plane now is the mind and the mindset and the ideology of the pilot.
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Nothing statistically supports that claim as being true.
Slats,
Human factors, Risk Resource Managment (CRM) and strategies to improve pilot performance linked to those are one thing. And as you point out the most important thing. I agree.
The distinction is that somehow "now" there is a problem with pilots as the deliberate cause of crashes rather than either the savior or as the "tried but could have done better."
We have a tendency to eat our own. One extemely rare and bizarre incident does not a sound safety reaction make, no matter how outrageous or tragic it may be.
Ask George W. Bush about 9/11.
