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Knee Jerks
Why is it everytime someone posts an accident, there are those who
quickly make a decision or pronouncement that it was stupid, or the pilot was a moron, or, etc, etc, and never have a clue as to the real happenings? Why does it take well trained professional crash investigators to do a full investigation that may last several weeks, months, years, to determine what happened when they could just take a quick look here and see what the "experts" have to say? There have been several crashes in recent days which is disturbing as hell to me and they have been well publicized. In nearly all of these crashes, there have been eye witnesses who breathlessly describe what they saw, or THINK they saw and the media laps it up as if it were gospel. Often the witness can't tell the difference in a Cessna and a Piper or a JetRanger. Then, to make matters worse, there are those amatuers, and a few more pros, who make immediate pronouncements as to what happened and who is to blame. I have been guilty of making statements in the past that turned out to be only partly right because I didn't have all the facts. In 50 years of flying I've learned that if you aren't in the airplane or ar not doing the flying, or are not looking right at the action with a professional eye, why make a fool of yourself with knee jerk statements? Dudley, if you are still here, what do you think? You've been around long enough and have been to enough crashes to have some ideas on the subject. Rocky |
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