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Comment by californical

7 hours ago

> Rarely works that way.

How sure are you? Could it actually happen that way 95% of the time, which means they don’t crash and we never hear about it? Likely a pilot gets disciplined for the other errors and nobody else cares? This exact thing could happen 20 times with everything turning up relatively ok and we only heard about it because they didn’t make that final call correctly either.

To be clear I’m not an aviator, just an armchair statistician with an interest in aviation

This was a discussion in the aviation subreddit too. I am also not an aviator, but just someone with an interest.

What the outcome of the discussion was that it depends on the culture and training of the organisation. It could be possible that it does happen like this 95% of the time with no crash in that specific organisation.