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PoindexterOglethorpe

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4. No. They don't blame it on "pilot error" for insurance,
Thu Mar 14, 2019, 02:59 AM
Mar 2019

and I'm beyond angered and offended at that. If you spend some time looking at the history of aviation and crashes you'll learn that "pilot error" is what's to blame because over the years all other causes have been eliminated. In the early years, and even up to modern times, various flaws in planes or systems or any other kinds of things got fixed up after crashes. Essentially, what was left was "pilot error". Not for insurance purposes.

I'm a former airline employee, ten years at DCA as a ticket agent, and so I'm semi-knowledgeable about such things. To suggest that airlines blame accidents on "pilot error" for insurance purposes shows a profound lack of understanding of how accidents are investigated, and how "probable cause" is eventually arrived at.

Please do some research in this area.

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