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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
JIM3CH
Published Letters: 17 Editor's Choice: 7
Thank you for the interesting column on the Tenerife accident. It is my understanding that this accident was the seminal event resulting in the establishment of Crew (Cockpit?) Resource Management (CRM) as a training / operating philosophy for commercial airlines. Has CRM been implemented by all commercial airlines? Is it practiced by smaller regional carriers (e.g., Comair)?
I must say, your attempted comic characterization of the Japanese people makes me wonder if you ever made it outside of Narita Terminal 2.
Ok, you heavy jet heavies out there. Is the British Airways 777 pictured under the link titled “proper touchdown technique” in a powerful crosswind really doing it right? I would have expected more yaw and less bank.
Thank you to Mr. Smith for another interesting journey.
P.S. Licentious maybe. Pornographic not.
…slow. Both the Bluegrass Comair, and the Midway Southwest accident investigations are still out standing. To be fair, in both cases, there were early promulgation of advice from NTSB and early action by FAA based upon lessons learned from those two accidents. Never-the-less we still wait for the final issuance of the official reports detailing the “probable cause”.
But at least in the US we have an investigation process. What about in Cameroon where it took two days just to locate where the plane went down (just three and a half miles from the airport!)? Mr. Smith states with some confidence that “Eventually we’ll know what happened”. Even with NTSB’s assistance, I have to wonder if we really ever will know.
…with influences and actors who have a burning passion to see every ideal expressed in the Gettysburg Address laid to ruin. At first, while still under the blood lust which arose as we watched the twin towers collapse, we were lucky to have an enemy that we could see and readily connect with our collective hurt. Retaliation was in order, and I am not sure that there are many among us who would then, or even to this day, disagree. But the visible enemy, the one who was so vivid in our minds, so clearly implicated and well defined, faded away.
But, they’re still there, wherever “there” is, waiting to martial the forces in the nurturing environment of some failed state somewhere else. There are many failed states to chose from, perhaps as many as thirty in Africa alone. And, yes, we have created yet another possibility in Iraq. Our enemy has been fractured perhaps mostly by the original blows received in Afghanistan, but embolden with new purpose and even greater hatred.
True. The invasion of Iraq was as pointless and counter productive as throwing gas on a fire that we intended to extinguish. And yes, we’ve made the fire worse, but the fire was there to begin with. It is the same fire that was burning in September 2001, and it burns with vigour to this very day. And though you may rightly label the invasion of Iraq as being pointless, you are simply wrong about the war.
The soldiers that are in harms way, right now, are fighting a noble war not a pointless war. And they are doing it with absolutely minimal resources…,extended tours of duty…, the heartbreak of “stop loss”. And, yet, the message that I have heard consistently from them, both living, and those who’ve have fallen, is one of compassion for the Iraqis and a plea to get the job done. God bless them all.
You give a red star to a letter from Dr. Tim Behrend who decries the American service men and women, stating that he pities them and holds them culpable, while he himself is a defender of Abu Bakar Ba’asyir, the (accused) head of Jemaah Islamiyah, and a supporter of jihad (see the link to his website). Happy memorial day Salon!
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