Comment by Mawr

If you want to have something or someone to blame then all of it. However, you want future flights to become safer, then none. Make your pick.

Your response is very human, but also deeply irrational. In practical terms of safety it is irrelevant if the pilot is to blame or not or to what degree.

All we should want to do is analyze the reasons why the crash happened and adjust the aviation safety system such that it never happens again.

If pilot actions contributed, then we must ask why and how exactly, then fix those factors through better airplane design and pilot training.

Just blaming someone, then moving on may make you feel good inside, but does nothing to improve safety.

> This is flying 101.

>> How poorly trained in basic airmanship were they and how were they allowed to be pilots?

Thoughts like these about three experienced professional pilots should make you do at least a double take. It is far more likely that you're dead wrong than that those pilots were so incompetent they didn't even know the basics.