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Old 18th Aug 2003, 16:16
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As I interpreted it, they weren't blaming only the Danish ATCO on duty at the time, but also the confusion caused on the flight deck of the Tu154, SkyGuide management, the Tu154 Chief Pilot and one or two other aspects.

It did make the point, though, that there was a whole chain of error factors and that the chain could have been broken at any one point.

Like the Reason Model - watching that programme with a sense of mounting horror, watching all the holes in the swiss cheese line up...

The thing that really got to me (as a pilot) was the report that the Russian crew were alive for a further two minutes after impact, all the way down to the ground, and that the 757 carried on from the impact for quite some distance/time (5 minutes?) knowing that, minus a tail, there was only one way they were going to go...

Horrible thought. I know many pilots whose two most fervent prayers are that, if aviation kills them, it is quick and clean, and that people don't think they died being a ********.
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