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The criticism of the pilots on HN was hella racist.
by Gibbon1 6y ago
The criticism of the pilots on HN was hella racist.
- Majestic121 6y agoCan you substantiate this statement ?
- Gibbon1 6y agoSure go back an read the threads after the first and second crashes and half the people were blaming the pilots being incompetent because they were Indian and Indonesian. And then same for the second crash. Specifically saying that the planes were safe in the hands of American and European pilots. It was very disgusting all around.
- _ph_ 6y agoBlanket statements are certainly inappropriate, but as it happens, some months later it came to the public, that over half of the pilots in Pakistan had not passed the proper tests for their license. The Airbus crash in Karachi was entirely due to incompetent flying, like way to high approach speed and not checking whether the wheels were down.
- selimthegrim 6y agoWhile the approach controllers share some blame too, it turns out that Pakistan CAA had recently changed the test scheme and a lot of pilots fully qualified under the old regime hadn’t taken the new set of exams which used to be optional
- JasonFruit 6y agoI remember the criticism of flight training in Asian airlines occasionally verging on racism, but the basic criticism is valid: Asian airlines are faced with market pressures that do not allow them to train pilots adequately, and many don't know how to fly an airplane apart from a checklist; their understanding of piloting is in marginal cases frighteningly superficial.