Arfa Daily wrote:

"Eeyore" wrote

Shame that the most common cause of airliner accidents is still 'pilot
error' !

Is that one a 'fact' or a guess ? Again, I'll ask my mate tomorrow if he
knows any stats on that ...

It IS a fact actually. Go to any of the professional aviation sites.

You know than Spanair MD-82 ? that crashed in Barcelona on takeoff for example
not long back ? Pilots forgot to deploy the flaps on take-off because they were
in a hurry after a maintenance delay that COULD have alerted them to the problem
( WOG fault ).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanair_Flight_5022

That's a nice recent one. I could give you loads more.

The Turkish one at Amsterdam, stalled into the ground ( called CFIT in the trade
) Controlled Flight Into Terrain. Pilots not monitoring instruments and flight
attitude combined with an instrument fault ( pilots could EASILY have caught it
- they had 45 seconds to avoid a stall ).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish...es_Flight_1951

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comair_Flight_5191
Pilots took the wrong runway !

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comair_Flight_3272
Total failure of pilots to actually FLY THE AIRPLANE ! Captain reacted to the
stick pusher in EXACTLY the wrong way.

And it goes on and on.

Graham

WOG = wheels on ground btw.

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