Timeline for What level of damage to an aircraft is acceptable to let it depart?
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| Jun 30, 2016 at 13:54 | comment | added | Ron Beyer | Either way you want to define "inclined" (which means disposed, not pushed or persuaded), and taking a "live if land, die if crashed" (not looking at crash survivability statistics), a pilot is no more or less likely to make it home than any of the passengers on that flight. Regardless of a pilots actions, the crew wants to make it home alive, which is the original point. They may be pressured into doing something stupid, but they still want to see their families at the end of the day... | |
| Jun 30, 2016 at 13:44 | comment | added | Agent_L | Another example - this time from here and not as tragic, read the last paragraph: aviation.stackexchange.com/a/29674/3903 | |
| Jun 30, 2016 at 13:43 | comment | added | Agent_L | @RonBeyer Now we're splitting hair over what really "inclined" means. I took it as "if you're doing something, it means you were inclined into it" | |
| Jun 30, 2016 at 13:42 | comment | added | Ron Beyer | @Agent_L They may be under pressure to perform which has financial consequences, but they are not any less inclined to make it home alive than the passengers they fly (especially given that flights kill a majority of the passengers in a crash). Unless they are suicidal they want to make it home alive just as much as anybody else, financial/performance pressures or not. The difference is susceptibility to perform outside of their skills or comfort, passengers are along for the ride, the pilots make the decisions. | |
| Jun 30, 2016 at 12:24 | comment | added | Agent_L | @FreeMan It's not "I'll give you $100 more if you kill yourself". It's "Do what we tell you, or you'll have no job to support your spouse, children, parents and pets". I pray to God that you're never in charge of anything if you refuse to admit that people can be pressured into most stupid things. | |
| Jun 30, 2016 at 12:19 | comment | added | Agent_L | @FreeMan en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Polish_Air_Force_Tu-154_crash Pilots pressured by their superiors into killing everyone on board (pilots, the superiors and nearly hundred of innocent bystanders). | |
| Jun 30, 2016 at 12:17 | comment | added | FreeMan | @Agent_L if you're more concerned with money than making it home to see your spouse, children, parents, pets, whatever, I pray to God that you're never in charge of a passenger flight. Aside from that, I don't see what the company wanting to maximize profit has to do with a pilot's desire to return to earth in one piece. | |
| Jun 30, 2016 at 12:13 | comment | added | Agent_L | @FreeMan Crew is under financial pressure from the airline so technically they are the least inclined to make it home alive of all people on board (unless a suicidal passenger happens). | |
| Jun 29, 2016 at 18:53 | comment | added | FreeMan | Excellent point about the crew wanting to make it home alive, too. | |
| Jun 29, 2016 at 18:12 | history | answered | Ron Beyer | CC BY-SA 3.0 |