> Its called the pilot. Can you please spare the patronizing tone? > And yet, commercial aviation is by far safer than driving. So what? It could be safer th

> Its called the pilot. Can you please spare the patronizing tone? > And yet, commercial aviation is by far safer than driving. So what? It could be safer than what it already is. > but I'd be willing to bet that just as many if not more were situations beyond the pilots control. Then you should review a good number of accidents. > You're also not comparing it to the number of times that pilots got out of sticky situations by following checklists and/or not having warnings suppressed That's an incorrect comparison. I never said that the checklists should not be followed or anything like that.