There was also something that the aircraft required a copilot to be properly flown by IFR.

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Yeah, well... Famous people are famous. Ashley Judd trips on a log in the jungle while looking for monkeys, breaks her leg badly, almost loses the leg, and almost dies... It makes the news. I'm sure she wasn't the first.

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"Wait! You're gonna try to hit this thing down on a strip of concrete? No thanks, buddy! I'll just get out here!"

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Federal incident investigator here. (though retired) Also certified in investigating human causal factors. Certainly money is a potential causal factor. A company takes shortcuts with their safety program because it's less costly. Quality control of raw materials are not properly verified. Manpower is stretched with overtime rather than hiring additional staff. Maintenance is delayed. Every company says "Safety First!" But that's just not true. I investigated a muti-fatality incident at DuPont in La Porte TX where a freak cold snap in November caused freezing of sections of a plant that had never occurred previously. Wait a week for restart, and the weather warms up. The system thaws. Production resumes. DuPont chose to try to thaw the system during the cold snap, ending up opening lines that contained highly toxic chemicals. Four people died. Several others almost died. My conclusion? Money talks.

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"Let's not forget that both of the pilot and the company initially did not want to do the flight. And when they told that to Kobe - the response was a threat of loss of continued business. Read: cancel culture" Cancel Culture is attempting to stop the spread of ideas, especially by shutting down or muting people's communications. Ostracism. It's not canceling a contract.

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Ah! I had asked above if I remembered correctly that this aircraft required a copilot for IFR. Yay! I remembered correctly!

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I thought I saw that this guy actually taught IFR...

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Federal incident investigator here. (though retired) Also certified in investigating human causal factors. I'm not passing judgement on this investigation, but just passing along broad concepts. 1. People mainly do what makes sense at the time. The key is often trying to develop evidence as to why an action that ended up bad seemed like the right thing to do. 2. There are two distinctly different types of difficult situations. A. Complicated situations are foreseen. Plans and procedures can be proposed by subject matter experts, and a particular path forward chosen based on criteria. Example: designing a house. B. Complex situations do not have procedures, and may not be able to be proceduralized. The path forward is something like troubleshooting. A steps is taken that is anticipated to stay within safe operating envelopes, the results are discerned, and a next step is taken. Example: rising a child.

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Wasn't there something posted here that that particular aircraft required a copilot to properly fly IFR?

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"pays them money to read their articles" Sounds like capitalism. You'd want a socialist press?

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