Posted On: August 23, 2007, 10:21 am CDT

Posted By: Argie

In the Brazilian event, guilt should be divided into as many parts as there are involved in any one flight: the aircarft manufacturers (who reportedly informed about the jet's safe maneouverabilty, even with one malfuntioning engine), the airline that accepted this and did not stop the flight or changed course or landing strip. The flight engineer who should have known better and finally, the ham in the sandwich, the pilots who did their best, perhaps even knowing that there was something rotten in Denmark. As others have put it, pilots are not infallible. But they are workers and, as such, dependable. And they had to choose, whether they liked it or not, inevitably, between two bad choices.