Bold is mine
Originally posted by BoeingBobby
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Yep- it's a good idea to brief.
But you know, several hundred aircraft departed ATL yesterday with no engine failure, so maybe it's ok to not brief?
Just like several other aircraft flew over the war zone with out being shot down, so it must be ok?...
Or perhaps that's wrong...maybe it's a good idea not to fly over war zones?
Look, I get it that well informed ops folks weighed the risks and tried to make a good decision, and that after the fact it's easy to say they shouldn't have flown there...
But when you look at it in the light of all of the hundreds of other precautions that commercial flights routinely take...then flying anywhere near a war zone sticks out as a really bad idea.
PS: Isn't this: "...was used by many other aircraft that day..." the same logic that comes into play when most folks continue to land with storms over the field?
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