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Lufthansa’s chief executive said …it will take “a long, long
time” to understand what led to a deadly crash…
Seriously? Don’t we already know? The co-pilot, with a history or mental illness(es) suffered a psychotic break and flew the plan into a mountain.
For those who haven’t figured this out yet, no system can be perfectly safe. No one can live in the world in perfect safety. Living life has always involved risks and always will. Attempting perfect safety is nothing but vanity and folly that leads to absurd results like spending hundreds of millions of dollars on body scanners that don’t work, or everyone absurdly taking off shoes and belts with now a decade of no shoe or belt bombs discovered,
The single most effective safety measure taken post 9/11 and also the cheapest was reinforcing the cockpit doors making hijackings a thing of the past, but now we discovery this created some problems of it’s own.
Lessons will be learned and flying safety might be improved marginally, or it might not. But no matter what happens in response to this tragedy, one day another pilot will suffer a mental break and fly a plane full of people into the ground, and that one won’t be the last either.
Perfect safety is an illusion for the gullible and a windfall to those who seek to trade on our fears. The sooner we realize this, the sooner we can have real discussions about what can be made safer and what cannot.
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We will come to discover that this happened at least in part because of Lufthansa cheap combined with appalling arrogance.
It will be a very long time before I manage to expunge the visual and auditory memory of their CEO proclaiming, in the initial press conference, and with with arrogance, that having just one pilot on the flight deck was absolutely safe, and that this maniac 100 percent fit to fly.
I never in my life ever took an illegal drug. I like having my brain work. But watching and listening to that putz gave me a very real idea of what having an unwanted auditory or visual hallucinations from a really bad trip must be like. In your heart you can’t believe it’s true.
Except in this case, it was true.
Less than 24 hours later Lufthansa announced that there would be two people in the cockpit at all times. Did this guy have what the Adventists call a faith conversion? I don’t think so. They are now offering a €50,000 pay out to the families the dead passengers.
Give me a break. If the passengers’ families can prove fault – and in United States Courts I believe they can – they’ll will be on the hook for billions.