The Blame Game
I just watched, with millions of others, the Jet Blue flight with faulty landing gear touch down in LAX. Happily, no one was hurt.
I had a friend who was a pilot, and whenever there was something like this in the news, I'd ask him if it was human error or mechanical error. He said "It's always human error."
Columbus Guy says: Fair enough. But I be the problem is 98 percent of people, lay people out of ignorance and the priesthood out of malice, treat this as the same thing as "pilot error." My guess is your friend was speaking much more broadly than the pilots -- at least, for pilots who do not own their own planes, commercial or otherwise.
posted by LAGuy @ 6:35 PM
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In this case, it's not an overgeneralization. The generalization saves the comment, since in a case like this it is far more likely to be a design, maintenance or manufacturing problem. I've read in a couple of places that Airbus, which I guess this is, has had several similar incidents. The only way to call this pilot error is to make the pilot responsible for selecting the plane, etc. That's certainly a plausible way to set up the world of aviation, certainly with smaller aircraft that the pilot owns, but it's not the way we do it, nor is it likely to be a better way.
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