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Re:Why the Austin airport situation was so dangerous by hitekker on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @12:23AM (#34704453)
The author didn't point fingers at anyone. He was explicit that the investigators will do the job of finding out the "why". His tone is entirely appropriate given that, if the FedEx operators had not went above and beyond, we would have seen a mass casualty event at Austin's airport.

Accusing the author of blaming individuals is rather silly when you're rushing to blame training/procedures/the system.

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Re:Why the Austin airport situation was so dangerous by xpe on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @08:52PM (#34718720)
> The author didn't point fingers at anyone.

I didn't say he did. (I was referring to comments here on HN.)

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Re:Why the Austin airport situation was so dangerous by xpe on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @09:04PM (#34718814)
> ... blaming individuals is rather silly when you're rushing to blame training/procedures/the system.

I see your point. I am not ruling out individual culpability.

Still, by the time a person is in a cockpit or a control tower, they have a history, a record of performance. It is part of the system's responsibility to evaluate this record.

So I am less likely to blame an individual only, because to do so would require the individual to act in a way that no system could predict, mitigate, or compensate for.

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