black box re-enactment, Perth

[Mick O'D]

Dear Pilots, . .I'm producing a television report on CVR, a dramatised re-enactment of six black box recordings by a New York theatre group. It's playing in the Perth International Arts Festival next week.

Two things: . .1.What do airline pilots think of this concept - ghoulish, useful, what?. .2.Is there a Perth-based pilot who would like to come to our filming of a rehearsal, next Wednesday, the 13th of February, to review it for us?. .I'm contactable at The 7.30 Report Perth 08 92202700 or on [email protected].

The show has been seen by many pilots in the US, some of whom were surprised to find it firstly realistic and secondly worthwhile.

Any comments, possibly for publication, would be welcome.

Cheers, Mick O'Donnell

[Cart_tart]

Hi Mike,

What about having someone from the "other side of the door" review it??!! <img src="wink.gif" border="0"> . .If you really would like a pilot though, you'd be best off posting on the forum Dunnunda & Godzone - it's related to Oz aviation and the pilots hang out there!. .I've heard this play is brilliant and if my schedule permits I will be there to see it! . .Good luck with your story!

C.T. . . <img src="smile.gif" border="0">

[Mick O'D]

Hi CT; no aversion to those beyond the door. If you would like to be involved, please call me on 0892202700. Mick

[Sick Squid]

I must admit, with my Pilot head on my kneejerk is to find the concept of stage dramatising CVR's rather gruesome and distasteful; however so is the concept of sleeping with one's parents and gouging out eyeballs, so we'd have no serious Greek theatre were that to be the sole defining criteria, and Shakespeare would be dead in the water. Reasoned judgement, from me anyway, must wait till I've seen it, seen the presentation of context, handling of the facts involved and the respect given.

Pilots as a group are sensitive to CVR recordings.... after all, they were people, just like us who drove in to work one morning, chatting about the weather, only to become a statistic and a report. Every time we read one, unspoken are the thoughts "This could have been me" and "What would I have done?" In the latter, you find the fascination, because that's why we study accidents in such detail, to learn precisely where the chain of error started to unravel, and then, logically, how we can modify what we do every day to avoid it happening again.

I'd agree Cart Tart, chuck a post on Dunnunda and Godzone re- your request, Mick, you should get some good responses. However take my advice... wear a virtual flak-jacket in there, and anticipate some serious combat. Our Australian friends don't take prisoners (I don't know how Woomera manages to moderate that forum!)

Good Luck

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