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This is the kind of "safety culture" these pilots were dealing with.
Yeah, they screwed up. But the FAA is *not* helping things by clinging
to rest rules that have KILLED PEOPLE. Remember the American flight
into Little Rock? On duty over 15 hours. Very unsafe.

The value of reports such as this is that they can provide the basis of
action to improve the regulations; IIRC, the Washington Times article
on this noted that planned improvements in the rest rules were tabled
because the airline industry didn't reach a consensus [and the FAA
didn't force one].

Rest rule problems are present throughout the transportation
sector...railroad crews have the same issue of having to count the taxi
time to the hotel as rest time. Truck driver rules were changed for
the worse just a few years ago (something like no longer having to
allow for x seperately but with the understanding that schedulers would
compensate by doing y, which they didn't).

Rant over. I'm on a break before my last leg of a "short" 14-hour,
7-leg day of hand-flying, and I need a nap. Thanks for reading.

Sometimes we need those rants so that we can get the naps.

Best wishes.

/dps