> major airliner crash at JFK caused (partly) by poor communication between pilots and ATC IMHO that doesn't accurately represent the NTSB's conclusions. They

> major airliner crash at JFK caused (partly) by poor communication between pilots and ATC IMHO that doesn't accurately represent the NTSB's conclusions. They didn't cite ATC as a cause at all, only as a secondary contributing factor (along with the weather): >> The National Transportation Safety Board determines that the >> probable cause of this accident was the failure of the flightcrew to >> adequately manage the airplane's fuel load, and their failure to >> communicate an emergency fuel situation to air traffic control >> before fuel exhaustion occurred. >> Contributing to the accident was the flightcrew's failure to use >> an airline operational control dispatch system to assist them during >> the international flight into a high-density airport in poor weather. >> Also contributing to the accident was inadequate traffic flow >> management by the FAA and the lack of standardized understandable >> terminology for pilots and controllers for minimum and emergency fuel >> states. >> The Safety Board also determines that windshear, crew fatigue and >> stress were factors that led to the unsuccessful completion of the >> first approach and thus contributed to the accident.