Originally Posted by mtofell

I'm addicted to a Podcast called, "Black Box Down." They profile a different airplane crash each week and it's fascinating. Your quote is spot on. It's almost always some combination of less than ideal conditions or something mechanical and an incorrect or poor choice by the crew. Sometimes it's all one or the other other but usually a combination. It's super scary to dig so deep into these things but does reaffirm just how rare crashes are and how several things have to go wrong most times.