Spehro,

On Fri, 19 Aug 2005 11:36:47 -0400, Spehro Pefhany wrote:

> Some call it the "widowmaker". But a fighter-pilot friend who flew CF104s
> way back when thought that most problems were attributable to pilot error.
> <shrug>

Well the error of "failing to come back alive" was certainly made by a remarkable number of pilots!  In any 
human-interactive system, being unforgiving of mistakes is a design failing, in my opinion, because you can't 
expect people to react correctly, in a short time-frame, every time, regardless of the situation - we aren't 
that good!  DC-10's ploughed-in due to "Ground handling errors", but the fact that those errors could be made, 
went undetected, and resulted in the loss of the aircraft, is a design shortcoming.  Murphy is always ready to 
clobber you if you try to pretend he isn't there.

"To lose one aircraft may be regarded as misfortune - to lose several looks like carelessness!"  :-)

Cheers,


Howard Winter
St.Albans, England


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