On 2006-08-29, Ron Lee wrote:
error a human makes? If not, what's your threshold and why do you think
that you are justified in getting angry at these particular humans for this
particular error in this particular case?

49 deaths?

Any aviator with significant flight time has made mistakes that could
have been deadly, given the wrong set of circumstances. Fortunately, the
other links in the accident chain weren't there. If this crew had made
the same mistake at another airfield where the wrong runway was 7000
feet long, the accident wouldn't have happened. But the mistake would
have been the same. I'm not interested in getting angry about this
particular accident, what I want to know is HOW an experienced two man
crew managed to make this mistake -- because if they can, well, so can
I.

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