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So punish everyone because of Air Canada's fuck-up?
by ShadowBanThis01 3y ago
So punish everyone because of Air Canada's fuck-up?
- timerol 3y agoIt's not punishment. The reason air travel is so safe is because every near-miss is root-caused and policies are put in place to prevent the same cause from resulting in a future accident.
- ShadowBanThis01 3y agoI see. So this policy has been imposed on all class-B airports? Also, it's not a "near-miss." It's a near-hit or near-disaster.
- koyote 3y agoThere have been two major incidents around landing at SFO in the last decade, one involving fatalities. Prioritising safety by requesting to land using ILS after a 12 hour flight should not be seen as 'punishing' everyone else.
- nerdponx 3y agoMy understanding is that the Lufthansa crew could/should have requested ILS much sooner in order to give ATC time to figure it out.
- ShadowBanThis01 3y agoExcept of course that everyone else is apparently able to handle it.
- yellow_postit 3y agoRight up until they can’t and a new rule gets written in blood. Given the depth perception issues of lights at night this seems like a sane request. The bigger problems are overworked ATC (fixable) and the utter mess that is SFO design (seems unlikely to fix)
- neom 3y agoAs they say, FAA rules are written in blood. https://www.cfinotebook.net/notebook/rules-and-regulations/rules-and-regulations https://www.cfinotebook.net/notebook/rules-and-regulations/r...
- affyboi 3y agoI mean, yes. Every single time there’s an aviation incident there’s an extremely thorough investigation and generally a set of concrete recommendations to go along with it. Pilots are human, automated systems fail, and the goal is to maximize safety because these fuckups mean that 200-300 people on a single plane might die (or more if a plane crashes into another or into a populated area) and these safety regulations have saved a lot of lives.