On Dec 8, 1:17*am, The Daring Dufas
wrote:
On 12/7/2010 10:00 PM, Molly Brown wrote:

When was the last time anyone investigated an airplane accident all
the way down to the mechanic and held him responsible. Kudos to the
French justice system. We here in the U.S. need to get back to the
good old days of holding people responsible for their actions.

http://articles.cnn.com/2010-12-06/w...e.trial_1_jacq...

What ever happened to "A tragic accident". It seems there is a move to
place blame for everything. If so, voters should be lined up and shot
for electing (fill in your most hated politician) who has ruined the
country. :-)

TDD

Yawn.... How surprising that a French court decided it was
Continental and a US mechanic solely
responsible for what happened and not 3 French guys that were
responsible for the Concorde design.
I don't know the merits of the particular case, only that it's not
unusual for these things to go this way.
In this case, I don't know exactly how the piece of metal that came
off that Continental plane wound
up on the runway or the design issues that made the Concorde so
vulnerable to a piece of scrap metal.

A good example of the always blame the other guy was the worst Airline
crash in history that killed 500+
people at Teneriff, when 2 747's crashed almost head-on on takeoff in
fog. In that case, they placed part
of the blame on Pan Am which was on the runway, looking for their
turnoff, when KLM took off without
takeoff clearance. In the left seat at KLM was the most senior and
chief pilot for all of KLM. The voice
and flight recorders showed that upon reaching the end of the runway
in fog at barely takeoff minimums, he immediately proceeded to take
off without clearance. That resulted in the co-pilot saying they
didn't have clearance. So the captain tells him to go ahead and
ask. Which he did and he received instructions on the flight path
upon departure, but NOT clearance to takeoff. Whereupon the captain
again shoved the throttles forward and this time the co-pilot said
nothing. All this time they knew Pan Am had been following them on
the active runway that was shrouded in fog and no one had ever said
that Pan Am was clear of the runway. At the point of impact
Pan Am was just starting to turn off. Yet they blamed the Pan Am crew
for not finding their turnoff faster in the
fog.