More Marginal Reporting by A.P.
Anwyn takes the Ass. Press to task for wrongly assigning too much blame to Comair 5191 survivor James Polehinke, and too little to the flight’s captain, Jeffrey Clay, for making the fatal wrong turn, and to the controllers for apparently violating an FAR requiring two controllers in the tower specifically to prevent accidents like this one. There’s plenty of blame go around here, and I don’t see anyone coming out of this looking very good.
August 31st, 2006 at 7:38 pm
Thanks for the link. :) Absolutely, there is *plenty* of blame to go around. It’s too bad to use an outright falsehood to heap more of it than he deserves, which is going to be considerable by itself, on the only guy left to answer for it aside from the FAA, who are already shedding the blame by saying it’s not the controllers’ responsibility to physically watch that the aircraft goes to the right runway, even when they are properly staffed. I’m sure it isn’t, but it still looks bad.
Anyway. Happier subject: Hope things are settling in for your family, with Xrlq 3.0, and that you and your wife are getting at least a little rest. :)