Reality is Harsh, They Did everything Wrong
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I partly grew up in Miami and am familiar with the airport. Even for civilians it is n obvious fuck up. I first heard about microbursts at MIA in the 1960s when their was real concern to learn about them. Strategies were developed two generations ago.
I think the regulators may agree with you.
As always a very very expert report on an airplane situation. I was troubled yesterday in the hours after the incident when local law enforcement had a press event and announced that they were sending homicide to investigate. Now that you have said people on the ground died that explains it. And you're not the first to say that people were killed. Sending homicide… That seems like a pretty brutal step to me. 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽😑 Unintentional murder is referred to as manslaughter. 😑
I think the reason why these online aviation pilot/influencer personalities are containing and short-handing immediate obvious information and trying to inject doubt and mystery is that their viewership relies on the airline industry, pilots, and aviation enthusiasts. The interests of that viewership are not aligned with cold hard facts that puncture their sense of specialness and superiority over the average citizen/passenger. In that way, they’re just like any other fan-based viewership. (Star Trek vs. Star Wars, which has more realistic spaceships?!) Informed opinions are all we have prior to months- and years-long investigations; that’s why what you are doing is vitally helpful. When it comes to graveyard engineering, it’s important for informed and passionate observers to point out what initially looks like mechanical failure, so that even if it takes two years to certify a problem at least pilots and mechanics and industry can be on the lookout and prepare themselves for revisions. Heightened awareness alone can prevent more fatalities, injury, and loss of property. In a similar way if there is stupefying aircraft piloting at first glance we can jumpstart our thinking about delivery pressure from operators and corporate logistics before final verdicts assemble themselves in a year or two— and a lot longer than that if it comes to legal accountability and damages. Foresight. It’s not about punishing the pilots right away. It’s about learning lessons before more lives are lost. Yes, you can learn lessons based on common sense and avoidance. Denys, your Air India coverage was amazing and important because it refocused a spotlight on the mental health and cognitive disposition of pilots. That tragedy and those prior and subsequent have been groundwork for efforts to make an incredible workforce even more incredible. But without the spotlight, what kind of efforts can we expect?
Thank you Denys for your knowledgeable assessment. If you haven’t seen this reckless flyover over a packed 56,000 seat stadium, it’s worth a look at criminal stupidity. The Prime Air accident is precisely why this stunt should never be permitted. https://edition.cnn.com/2026/09/02/africa/stadium-flyover-black-box-data
That was INSANE ... Anything could have gone wrong. 🤦🏽♀️
You tell the truth Denys! 21 Air is going to cost Amazon a LOT of $ in justifiable lawsuits for pilot error.
Yes, but money or professional retribution wont raise the dead. Disaster fears have crossed over the consciousness of everyriver tooling up the Palmetto Expressway with airplanes zooming by a seeming three feet overhead. In time you got sed to it. In a very few catastrophic events (yes, at lest one of which signaled the danger of microbursts for the industry) pilots managed a few extra feet to plow into the Everglades—probably industrial warehousing or offices these days—rather than people. As you say, even for a civilian it is hard to understand why they didnt go around in stormy, erratic weather. I have certainly been on flights that circled around in erratic weather. Those squalls can spring up out f eeming nothing even on he ground, suddenly hitting with a strong wall of wind while walking down the street. You get used to it, but even pedestrians take care, even unconsciously. One guy walking near my house wS truck by lightening in exactly those conditions as he wind hit. I remember the moment well. Why not aircraft also?
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