From kls Thu Jan 25 00:55:02 1996 Newsgroups: sci.aeronautics.airliners Path: bounce-back From: jim.tilbey@zetnet.co.uk (Jim Tilbey) Subject: Re: Airbus bashing References: Message-ID: Approved: kls@ohare.Chicago.COM Sender: kls@ohare.Chicago.COM Date: 25 Jan 96 00:55:02 In message aschonla@cicresearch.com writes: > It is an absolute pleasure to watch this rather quiet and sedate > group. The Airbus bashing going on in rec.travel.air is becoming > tiresome and possibly a place where lawyers soon will tread. The > story all began with the terrible AA crash in Cali....and now has > degenerated into a sort of "Airbus crashes more than Boeing" thing. > If you have not read/watched any of it, you might agree with me (once > you have) that the group's monitoring is out of control. What amazes > me is how people sign their names at the bottom and include their > company information. Some of these companies are in the aviation > business! I wonder what HQ thinks of all these postings...do they > perhaps reflect some sort of policy? I wonder.... I could not agree more with you, in fact a lot of these partisan comments are not helping the situation at all. The simple fact is that the majority of accidents we are seeing these days are avoidable, the weak link is the 'human interface' be it bad flight deck management, ambiguous procedures or ATC mistakes. It's a credit to aircraft manufacturers that catastrophic failures these days are extremely rare. IMHO we should not be getting involved in a 'my father is bigger than your father' type arguement, we should be looking at where the 'system' has gone wrong, asking why highly trained professionals are making irrational or blantently wrong decisions, remember we only get to hear about those that result in disaster. There are a lot of similarities between the Cali accident and that of the Air Inter A320 crash at Stratsbourg in 1992 which to me proves:- (a) We do not seemed to have learnt a lot over 4 years, and (b) Mountains do not discriminate between Boeings and Airbuses. -- Jim Tilbey Kirkwall, Orkney, UK jim.tilbey@zetnet.co.uk