Official Blames Safety Flaws in U.S. Aviation System for Comair Crash

August 15, 2007

  • August 15, 2007 at 3:44 am
    Argie says:
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    It appears (worldwide) that pilots are either been subject to excessive flight hours or their training is not surveyed and improved from time to time. Whose responsibility is this? The airlines’? The companys’? The recent crash in Sao Paulo (Brazil) where the pilot was informed (and he accepted this foolish advice) that his plane could fly without reverse turbine power on its right engine, shows this. Probably the plane was able to fly, but landing on a short wet runway made it swerve to the left and crash against a company building, with loss of all (200) people aboard. The pilot should have known better, didn’t he?

  • August 15, 2007 at 4:45 am
    Not Infallible says:
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    In regards to understaffed air control towers wouldn’t the natural solution be simply to hire more controllers to man the the towers and to ensure that there be less risk of overworking the current staff?

    This solution just seems to be too obvious? How difficult is it to train personnel? Is there funding issue involving the federal government?

    Argie’s example seems to be one where the pilot is at fault. But not every time is an accident exclusively the fault of the pilot.

    If the staffs at airports are overworked why don’t they simply hire more people? What’s the holdup?

  • August 15, 2007 at 6:12 am
    Pilot Error? says:
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    The article comments on all the “little” things that added up to the crash, but the conclusion was “pilot error”. As Not Infallible puts it, the solution seems obvious. Guess everyone is trying to be too “lean & mean” and you can see what that result is.

  • August 23, 2007 at 11:21 am
    Argie says:
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    In the Brazilian event, guilt should be divided into as many parts as there are involved in any one flight: the aircarft manufacturers (who reportedly informed about the jet’s safe maneouverabilty, even with one malfuntioning engine), the airline that accepted this and did not stop the flight or changed course or landing strip. The flight engineer who should have known better and finally, the ham in the sandwich, the pilots who did their best, perhaps even knowing that there was something rotten in Denmark. As others have put it, pilots are not infallible. But they are workers and, as such, dependable. And they had to choose, whether they liked it or not, inevitably, between two bad choices.



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