Oh how tiresome.. . .. the poor old needle in the record is stuck again.. again ..again . . sanctimoniously .
(you could even be excused of thinking mindlessly - it was all so different before everything changed.)
Once more unto the breach . . . . ..
Of all the fallacious claims made over and over down all the years since the Mahon Report was tabled
is the repeated one that the pilots should have known better, should have twigged to the signs, should have displayed superior judgement so as not to have to call upon superior airmanship. It is frustratingly the most enduring and most typical of a case of being wise after an event. Mammoth online talk fests and reams of tabled reports , notes and conclusions , many of them hypothesising about how the flight should have been conducted, how the descent was a negligent and cavalier act, none of this would have taken place if they had been where they thought they were. To lose sight of this primary fact, to be led along labyrinthian channels of secondary importance, is to fail to grasp or give sufficient credence to what was in fact a simple procedural oversight, but one with disastrous unforeseen consequences.
Were the potential consequences foreseen then needless to say there'd have been hardly even a minor incident to report upon and rectify.
PLovett in post #601 on 6th May last -
Oh boy......sit back........snack at hand and drink ready and watch the fireworks.