Originally Posted by
alggag
I noticed that over on airliners the usual suspects there have already completed their investigation in all of about 28 seconds and decided that Southwest is 100% at fault due to reckless operations.
It's entirely possible that it was their fault but it seems that people are really quick to jump to such conclusions whenever WN has a bump, scratch, or skids off a taxiway in wet or icy conditions but when it happens to any other airline it was just an unfortunate accident.
The airline would do better without the
bunker mentality:
American spokesman Joshua Freed said in an email that the airline's plane "was taxiing with the help of ground personnel walking near each wingtip." Southwest refused to say if the airline also had workers on the tarmac assisting its pilots, or if that was required by company policy.