It was actually a Columbian airliner
Running on fumes and augured in
I remember that one

Jim Macklin wrote:
you just blamed Mexican culture.




"Jose" wrote in message
om...
| This was clearly a machismo thing.
|
| Was it?
|
| Could it also have been a timidity thing? In this
country, the pilot(s)
| in command has the absolute final say on what goes on in
the plane.
| It's even written into the FARs. This might not be true
in the other
| countries. For example (I know, not a parallel), I'm told
by pilots who
| once flew there that in Mexico, flights have to be
dispatched by a
| military commander.
|
| These kinds of differences will manifest themselves in
training and
| attitude in the cockpit. They may have simply been
"afraid of the
| anticipated mountain of paperwork" not realizing (deep
down) that
| nothing like that would occur in this country for
declaring an emergency
| and doing whatever was necessary to meet the emergency.
|
| That would be the opposite of machismo.
|
| Not everything can be blamed on culture.
|
| Jose
| --
| "Never trust anything that can think for itself, if you
can't see where
| it keeps its brain." (chapter 10 of book 3 - Harry
Potter).
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