‘Confirming we are cleared to land?’ Who said what at Austin
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Re: ‘Confirming we are cleared to land?’ Who said what at Austin
#2Somebody is not going back into an air control seat without some re-training.
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#3Wow, reading that audio transmission log was pretty intense. Someone's losing their job for sure
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#4Wasn’t poor visibility also a significant factor in the Tenerife airport disaster? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenerife_airport_disaster
Re: ‘Confirming we are cleared to land?’ Who said what at Austin
#5FedEx crew seemed to be the adults in this situation / the most aware of the situation. Good for them.
Re: ‘Confirming we are cleared to land?’ Who said what at Austin
#6Wasn’t poor visibility also a significant factor in the Tenerife airport disaster? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenerife_airport_disaster
Absolutely. That and the fact that the senior pilot wasn't listening to his co-pilot and didn't feel like he needed to.
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#7Somebody is not going back into an air control seat without some re-training.
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Re: ‘Confirming we are cleared to land?’ Who said what at Austin
#8Wow, reading that audio transmission log was pretty intense. Someone's losing their job for sure
While it's possible they'll lose their job, air travel has a really solid track record of blameless postmortems for issues like this.
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#10Wow, reading that audio transmission log was pretty intense. Someone's losing their job for sure
If the goal is to improve safety firing people is almost always the wrong response. That juvenile preoccupation with punishment only serves to create a culture where mistakes are hidden rather than understood.