I guess that's why this country is a lawyers paradise. Nobody has any
personal accountability anymore, just sue whoever has the largest coffers.

TheNPC wrote:
Stefan Lörchner wrote:

I find myself wondering what the cost of a low-power ground radar



I don't see anything being necessary.
Accidents will happen in the future and they will always happen if
humans are involved. There is nothing that assures perfect safety.

Maybe a moving map display might prevent an accident like this. However,
there will be another accident that is caused (also) by a malfunctioning
moving map because it was not aligned correctly or an old version or a
bad scan...

Living is always life endangering.

As long as far more people die because of cars and guns we better should
take care of that!


Cars and Guns kill more people because stupid and/or drunk and/or
unqualified or poorly trained people get a hold of them every day

Air Travel should be perfectly safe because it supposedly involves
professionally trained people who follow strict guidelines.

But when "Negligence" comes into play, there are mechanisms to insure
accountability and compensation and problem resolution so it will not
happen again.

In the case of KLEX, the FAA was "Negligent" with their Air Traffic
controller workforce staffing that Sunday morning
at Bluegrass Airport.

You can spin all day like a washing machine and throw out hypothesis
after hypothesis but the bottom line at LEX the FAA was "Negligent"
because they violated their Air Traffic staffing orders.

If found the crew was 100 percent at fault it still does not negate the
fact the FAA was negligent.