Madrid Air Crash

[RAM]

Originally Posted by STEED

These things happen..................

An engine fire on take off?.
Yeah, it's unquestionable- they happen. It has happened just today.

But they should -NOT- happen. Much less if the engine going poof has just passed a revision because the pilot reported problems with it. I don't care about why the plane crashed after the engine bursted in flames, it may have been a pilot error or not, but that engine should've worked fine, or the plane not flown at all.

So, someone blewed up bigtime today. And it was not the pilot. Death count is 151 right now, and likely to increase in next hours...

In my own view of the world, that means someone should pay a serious price for his mistake. "these things happen" it's not an excuse, not even an explanation. As I said, this kind of things should -NEVER- happen. And if they do, whoever made it possible should pay for it.

[Digital_Trucker]

Originally Posted by RAM

As I said, this kind of things should -NEVER- happen. And if they do, whoever made it possible should pay for it.

If a human being is involved, these things wil ALWAYS happen. Perhaps the mechanic found what he thought was the problem and all the tests suggested that the problem was corrected and something that had absolutely nothing to do with the original problem caused the catastrophe? And what if it were you who was the mechanic and you did everything in your power to solve the problem, believed that you had and later found that you had, as humans do, missed something? What price would be appropriate then?

[Enigma]

I gotcha, RAM, and frankly if pushed I'd have to agree with your summary. I just always feel the need to throw out caution of speculation when anyone starts talking air crash. You sir, do a better job than CNN any day of the week.


And....Digital Trucker makes a great point.