Originally Posted by
The SAR RC
HC
You're trolling. If you've never done SAR it's unlikely that you'll ever appreciate how crews carry out their dynamic risk assessments. The 'blame' options you refer to are rarely so binary.
What was asked of this crew should have been well within the capabilities of an experienced SAR crew. How they ended up hitting that rock with what we have to assume was a serviceable radar is beyond me. Maybe some CVR clues will feature in a preliminary report.
Presumably by "trolling" you mean having a different opinion from you? In which case you are correct. An "institution" (if SAR can be called that) that sticks its fingers in its ears to any input that is not from "one of the boys" is, as in any other branch of almost anything, doomed to fail to progress. Sometimes external input is irellevant or plain wrong, but sometimes it is valuable.