Comment by cjbprime
15 hours ago
They made a series of at least ten (and that's kind of charitable) this-must-never-happen mistakes that likely rise to the level of extraordinary criminal negligence, including ignoring checklists, alarms, configuring the plane for landing in general, and basically everything related to safety.
You don't have to extend sympathy, just as you don't have to extend sympathy to drunk drivers who kill people.
I am not a pilot and I don't know anything about flying. I can go along with the idea that the pilot / crew made mistakes. So the next obvious question is how do we make sure this does not happen again?
Is there anything that can be done at all here?
The NTSB report will detail what can be done, and they will have full access to every bit of information involved in the incident.
They have a well deserved reputation for the quality and accuracy of their incident reports, and they don't pull their punches.
Maybe ATC could be expected to revoke landing clearance on extremely obviously unstable approaches? I wonder why that didn't happen.
You can't be serious.
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I don't have sympathy. I also do know of drunk drivers that have been arrested, who are, good people. Shit happens. I'm not going to judge.
People who voluntarily choose to get behind the wheel of a motor vehicle while intoxicated are not, in fact, good people.
I mean, complete ethical nihilism is one way to try to avoid losing this particular argument, but I don't think you'll get many people to agree with you on it.