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jvalmer
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 Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2014 11:21 pm Post subject: |
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| Steelrails wrote: |
| hellofaniceguy wrote: |
Asiana executives...you all are a bunch of knotheads, imbeciles, just plain ignorant.
Thousands of other pilots from around the world have landed at SFO without mucking up the landing!
The blame lies with YOUR pilots. Period. The world knows it! So just man up to the fact that you had a few pilots who made a BIG mistake!
And I know these pilots families are talking smack..."oh honey, it's not your fault..it's Boeing's!" |
While I get Asiana trying to stick up for its pilots and be well, kinda like the cops circle the wagons during a police brutality/excessive use of force/suspect shooting, they really should consider coming down on them. As I've said, there are probably dozens, if not hundreds, of Asiana and Korean Air pilots who have made that landing countless times. I hate to see pilots hung out to dry, but if internal investigations revealed that they really did mess up, then you have to take steps.
Basically Asiana had three options-
1) Admit wrongdoing, blame the pilots. Pilots union is upset, potential risk of looking like "yet another bumbling Korean airline" and losing what until now was a good reputation. Potential benefit of looking strong upholding standards, stock prices and upheavals to be dealt with shortly after the date of the crash.
2) Deny wrongdoing. blame the controls. Pilots union is happy. High potential risk to future contracts with Boeing, risk of expensive litigation and bad press coverage, risk of sharecode agreements being terminated, possible short-term sympathy boost with domestic market.
3) Partially admit wrongdoing, partially blame the controls. Pilots union is disconcerted but not upset, might be considered another bumbling Korean airline, might be able to successfully cast some blame on outside causes. Can is kicked down the line in terms of upheaval and restructuring and stock shocks. Time gained to implement reforms. Hope of story fading into the background of the news cycle.
I can see why they went with option number 3, even if option number 1 might have a better long-term result and would be my choice. Still, I don't like pissing off your pilots. You gotta look out for your pilots and groundcrew. |
Asiana is doing what any decent company would do, is protect their employees. I'm sure there is a much better way to protect their pilots then what they are doing now. I think they need to hire better PR people to word their statements more effectively.
In the end, I hope this helps send a message to all airlines in the world to learn from this and improve their pilot training. |
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