V1.....UH_OH
November 9, 2000, 07:22 PM
Does anyone else have any input to this?
The first case that I have heard of was the
Airbus A320 pilot who was tried on manslaughter charges for the airshow crash a while ago. Between then...and now this latest with the Singapore Airlines pilots! What is this world coming to? I am one to look at things from different perspectives, but if this holds, then I may see it go under
negliegence. If this is the case should all others be held to the same accountability?
Should doctors be tried as criminals for not being able to save some idiot who overdosed himself? Should the bus/truck driver be put in jail for crashing his truck in bad weather and people dying in that crash?
What's next? If the crewmembers die, then do you go after their family? As a pilot, who realizes that there is NEVER a guarantee that you will always come back down 100% of the time without something going wrong up there, I still fly and maintain the most professional standards that any one of us can, as anyone of you who also fly for a living does! This whole thing saddens me, and just makes me shake my head in disgust.
Now I know there is a difference in knowingly taking an unairworthy plane up, then something happening as a result of that item being inop, but in an accident such as this? What do we do as crewmembers? If a FA is serving coffee and a pocket of turbulence
makes her spill hot coffee on a PAX, does
that mean she is liable to answer for what ever injuries happen?.......... I just figured that I would post this topic and see what other people out there had to say in reference to this. For God's sake I hope this doesn't come to the point where
every time we walk down the terminal we feel like defendants looking at potential plaintiffs, for possible future mishapes not of our INTENTIONAL,WILLING AND CONSCIOUS nature!!!!
The first case that I have heard of was the
Airbus A320 pilot who was tried on manslaughter charges for the airshow crash a while ago. Between then...and now this latest with the Singapore Airlines pilots! What is this world coming to? I am one to look at things from different perspectives, but if this holds, then I may see it go under
negliegence. If this is the case should all others be held to the same accountability?
Should doctors be tried as criminals for not being able to save some idiot who overdosed himself? Should the bus/truck driver be put in jail for crashing his truck in bad weather and people dying in that crash?
What's next? If the crewmembers die, then do you go after their family? As a pilot, who realizes that there is NEVER a guarantee that you will always come back down 100% of the time without something going wrong up there, I still fly and maintain the most professional standards that any one of us can, as anyone of you who also fly for a living does! This whole thing saddens me, and just makes me shake my head in disgust.
Now I know there is a difference in knowingly taking an unairworthy plane up, then something happening as a result of that item being inop, but in an accident such as this? What do we do as crewmembers? If a FA is serving coffee and a pocket of turbulence
makes her spill hot coffee on a PAX, does
that mean she is liable to answer for what ever injuries happen?.......... I just figured that I would post this topic and see what other people out there had to say in reference to this. For God's sake I hope this doesn't come to the point where
every time we walk down the terminal we feel like defendants looking at potential plaintiffs, for possible future mishapes not of our INTENTIONAL,WILLING AND CONSCIOUS nature!!!!