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Old 09-11-2007, 09:08 PM   #136
Norseman
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Okay Capt. Tom, looking forward to the latest info on Legacy.

This case should be a text-book accident where everybody could learn a lot of what went wrong including naval designers, anchor manufactors, owners, captains, etc., etc.

My primary job is flying airlplanes, not driving boats.

In my business we have a few accidents that pops up again and again in every training class because they are so easy to avoid and therefore so much to learn:

The first one that pops up in my head is the Air Florida B-737 in Washington DC: Bad weather, iced up, not enough power on the engines due to iced up EPR probes on the engines, captain failed to realize all the snow-balling factors untill it was too late. Then they hit that bridge.
Step by step, that one was pretty **** avoidable without even playing Monday Morning Quarterback: Snow on the wings made for less light.
Snow on the runway made for more drag. Ice on the primary power-probes made for less power. Poor procedures in the cockpit made for poor quality control..Etc.

Plenty other high-profile accidents we can all learn from: AA in Little Rock, ValueJet over the Everglades, SwissAir in Halifax, etc, etc.

Legacy on the hard should be a good lesson for all of us.
(not rolling my eyes or pointing fingers, just learing and remembering)
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