Originally Posted by
magiciansampras
We really should just keep a running tab at this point.
You gotta wonder. How many child vaccines could we pay for with this money? Or life-saving cancer treatment research? It really is sickening how we
throw money down the drain.
Or if the money is to be spent solely on saving probable loss of life in civil aviation, how about
:
Weeding out pilots who develop their personal, non-standard, wake vortex recovery techniuques that overstress a commercial flight air-frame. (AA 587; 2001)
Retraining pilots who may decide it's OK to land with > permissible tailwind velocity and can't/don't determine required landing runway length correctly. (WN 1248; 2005)
Retraining/weeding out pilots who can't assess > a dozen clear clues they're taking off on the wrong runway. (Comair 5191; 2006)
Aggressively implementing the "icing on aerofoil" lessons learned from CO 3407 (whatever they may finally be) and from AA 4184 (1994) (Note: that would be 2 strikes on this issue now)
Imparting the skill and professionalism shown by the Captain of US 1549 to as many other airline crews as possible.
The thought that we're spending irreplaceable government resources on boarding passes and passenger identification while the above real needs that involve actual fatalities are left unmet is beyond sick.
