Comair Pilot Error

On 2006-08-29, Peter Duniho wrote:
"Andrew Sarangan" wrote in message
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[...] I sincerely feel for those who lost loved ones. They have the
right be very angry. I am angry, and I did not lose anything.

You have never made a single mistake, ever, while flying an airplane?

IMHO, your anger is misplaced. It's not like the pilots made the mistake on
purpose.

And the pilots weren't out looking to get killed or kill anyone else.
Hopefully the surviving FO can shed light on what went wrong.

Although I've never come close to crashing in more than 1000 hours of GA
flying, I realise I'm not immune to stupid pilot tricks. Whenever I read
of an incident like this (done, by the way, by a two man crew, trained
in CRM and highly trained on the aircraft) I wonder how *I* could make
the same mistake. I want to know:

how they didn't notice that the runway *looked* damned short.
how they didn't notice the numbers painted on the end
how they didn't notice that their glass cockpit was showing they were on
a heading that they didn't expect to be on when lined up.

It has already taught me NOT to even think of relying on a controller to
catch an error I have made.

Every time I read these sorts of incidents, I feel a "dark cloud" of if
they can make that mistake - then so can I. Especially since there are
two people here trained to work as a crew of two - not just one with
much less equipment.
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