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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Ross Crawford writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Christopher L. Weeks writes:
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> > 2) A well maintained airplane is safe when operated skillfully.
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> Except if the pilot decides to make it unsafe. There's always a human factor,
> as the skillful pilots showed on Sep 11.
Right, but that doesn't change the "need for culpability" argument one bit.
In fact following this thread of it circles you from the more general "how
to make flying safe" theme we were on for the last few posts, and back
around to the "how to stop air violence" subtheme.
These "skillful pilots" wouldn't have gotten to play their dastardly role if
any number of things that didn't happen would have been enabled to have
happened. Hence the airlines nevertheless retain culpability (in fact,
although they've dejure dodged it (1)) for the lapses in security and for
the fact that no one was able to stop the terrorists earlier.
1 - Even Molly Ivins, who is pretty amazingly biased sometimes, caught that one
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| (...) Except if the pilot decides to make it unsafe. There's always a human factor, as the skillful pilots showed on Sep 11. ROSCO (23 years ago, 6-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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