"Pilot Error" Your Ass! The National Transportation Safety Board's investigator of the crash in Queens of flight 587 that killed 265 people has made the astonishing and criminally outrageous assertion that "pilot error" was responsible! You see, the co-pilot's actions in trying to steer out of turbulence caused by a plane that took off just ahead of flight 587 were "unnecessary and aggressive" and caused the plane's tail to fall off!
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Huh? The plane's TAIL FELL OFF and that is somehow the co-pilot's fault? No! Absolutely not.
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I don't care how "aggressively" he steered. A plane's tail is not supposed to FALL OFF!
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What next? A driver who turns his steering wheel "aggressively" to avoid a deer in the road causes his front wheels to fall off? A player who pushes his joystick "aggressively" in a video game causes his PlayStation to explode? A computer user who uses his mouse "aggressively" causes his hard drive to crash, destroying all his data? NO-O-O-O-O!!!!
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No "pilot error" can make a properly designed and constructed plane's TAIL FALL OFF! The investigator's charge is inexcusably insane. If the NTSB follows thru and announces that grotesque assertion as its official finding, every member who voted for such a finding should be lined up in front of a firing squad — and have to hope the guns don't shoot because the riflemen squeeze the triggers "aggressively". At the very least, the survivors of the co-pilot should sue for defamation because the finding is clearly contrary to fact.
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Pilots make many errors, I'm sure. Making the TAIL OF THEIR PLANE FALL OFF is not one of them.

- posted by L. Craig Schoonmaker @ 1:42 PM