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![]() : Rather than dispelling pilots who crash as fools (which admittedly many are, : read the NTSB reports), let's learn from their mistakes, place ourselves in : their scenarios, and ask ourselves what we'd do in similar circumstances. Most of the deadly accidents can be attributed to some form of poor pilot decision, judgement, competence. It's pretty rare that a wing falls off, or even that an engine quits outright. Much more often it's VFR in IMC, fuel starvation, or overloading that gets people killed. It's unfortunate that arrogance and hubris are typical pilot personality traits, as these really have no business in aviation. True, unfortunately those people are rarely the folks introspectively asking themselves what they would do in a difficult situation beforehand. The unfortunate thing about safety seminars are that the people who need them most will never attend. Speaking of pilot personality traits, someone on some thread mentioned that certain personality traits that make people succeed in business are the same traits that in some cases, kill them in the air. CEOs didn't get to where they are now by avoiding risks. While good CEO's take calculated risks, many successful people, with the money to buy more plane than they can handle, are likely to overestimate their ability, underestimate the risks at hand, and overestimate the reward of satisfying their passengers and getting to their destination at a particular time. I'm not insinuating that JFK Jr fell into this category, but there are plenty of high profile fatalities were this was a contributing factor. |
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