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lovecgtoday at 5:36 AM1 replyview on HN

You’re imagining a last minute perfectly executed response after what appears to be a series of gross errors of judgement. Rarely works that way.


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californicaltoday at 6:37 AM

> Rarely works that way.

How sure are you? Could it actually happen that way 95% of the time, which means they don’t crash and we never hear about it? Likely a pilot gets disciplined for the other errors and nobody else cares? This exact thing could happen 20 times with everything turning up relatively ok and we only heard about it because they didn’t make that final call correctly either.

To be clear I’m not an aviator, just an armchair statistician with an interest in aviation

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