On 7 May 2014, at 18:13, Andy Farkas <an...@andyit.com.au> wrote: > On 07/05/14 09:48, Jim Birch wrote: >> My feeling would be that the vast majority of air accidents >> occur due to deviations from accepted best practice, eg, pilot error. > > Have you never watched the "Air Crash Investigation" TV show? > > Type it into youtube.
I think your intention was to contradict the above, but anecdotally most episodes that I have see depict pilot error or some other human error (e.g. procedure not followed) as the cause rather than mechanical failure. It would be interesting to see some statistics from a study done on the topic. Given the nature of the topic, it is without doubt that such numbers would exist. _______________________________________________ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
