Comment by yread
7 months ago
On pprune there is a professional pilot that says they had multiple instances of inadverent switching off fuel switches. They do it every startup, shutdown and training captains (the captain on this flight was pilot not flying, he had >10k hours) do it all the time in the sim to trigger engine out scenario during training
I pull my handbrake every time I park my car, but never mistake it for the windshield wiper while the car is moving
There is no shortage of people who press the wrong pedal or button in a car or elsewhere. But of course it could never happen to you, you're special!
You moved the goalposts from "do something catastrophic by doing something completely unrelated to what you were trying to do" to "press the wrong pedal or button in a car or elsewhere"
We're talking about taking an action in a different place in the cockpit controls that has safeties built in to prevent accidental use... like pulling a handbrake by accident while the car is moving when you meant to put your wipers on