Imrich:
...from from Asiana 214, to the A330 in Nepal on 4 March, to UPS at KBHM, to even the LGA MD88 not potentially landing using Rwy 04 into the wind, instead of facing the XW on Rwy 13 in low mu, could have likely prevented each accident.
The A330 at Kathmandu
was flying an RNP AR procedure.
JFK -- not LGA -- drives the runway configurations for the rest of the NYC metroplex.
When/how is the "big switch" to RNP going to be made all at once? Which airplanes will be left out?
What should be done with the Airbus and Boeings manufactured in the early 1990s?
...So the authorities, ANSPs, and airlines also own "a piece of this one" for culpability, and not just as always, "blame it exclusively on the pilots".
Somehow the airplane mfgs got left out of that culpability roster.
Has Boeing ever posted a $$$ quote for retrofitting MD-88s to fly RNP?