"My thoughts on aviation"

"What I think about AVIATION and the mistakes that killed thousands" is not to set a theme for unfavorable
events that have been a part of aviation from the beginning.  It's to dig into t he history of human failure (flight crews) associated with errors that have contributed to countless incidents,accidents and disasters,  Because eleven log books and enough air time to have made forty round trips to the moon maybe gives me a slight leg up on credibility to comment on a subject I am quite familiar with.  And five decades of research and investigation revealed the fact that the majority of events leading to aircraft incidents and crashes don't happend because the airplane broke.  They happen because of human failure.  I will blog on this topic many times in the future and look forward to comments.
We build better aircraft with virtually every fail-safe component possible but we haven't yet come up with a solution to the human factor in the equation.  I could pull up a shopping list of aviation mishaps but since we just passed the second anniversary of one most of you may remember (Comair Flight 191, August 27, 2006) I would urge you to simply educate yourself by letting your computer give you the facts.  As for me, the list of mistakes spelled disaster from the git-go.  What's interesting is that finger pointing from many sides showed that there is no solution.  You just have to take your chances and go with the odds because millions dodge the bullet every day.  That's damn good odds.  
   


 

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