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The contributors rather than going after a single cause. >> i do not think this accident was due to pilot error. this was a complex warning, and there were numerous little things that went wrong. and the margin of safety was eroded by all of them to the point where the system became brittle and broke. >> and im sorry for everyone who has that empty space at the table and that empty spot at a christmas tree. youre just sorry. sorry is just not a big enough word. >> i can honestly say to her, im s...

Statute for over 40 years. >> when you look at a complex accident like this, you cant look at one individual thing, you have to look at the interactions. once we can put that term pilot error, it makes us feel better that we found what went wrong. we dont need to look any further. we have our scapegoat, and we can all take comfort in the system and move forward from here. >> if this person is bad, if this person did a bad thing and i just remove this person from the system, we would make it safe...

They were taken to a hospital located, don, just about a block from the high school. so far no motive. no motive in this shooting so far. police are still looking for the gun. police also looking for additional suspects although the police commissioner would not say what role, if any, those additional suspects may have played in the shooting. don? >> jason, get more information and get back to us. more breaking news. new developments on the southwest flight that landed at the wrong missouri ai...

Pilot error is now blamed for a southwest plane landing at the wrong airport in missouri. it landed sunday night at an airport about seven miles from its scheduled destination. the airports runway, which isnt designed for large planes, forced the pilots to slam on their brakes, narrowly avoiding disaster just short of a steep drop-off. and a nightmare toned a dream vacation. dozens got sick on a royal caribbean cruise. more on what caused the stomach bug. >> i spent like a whole night on the t...

>> i would apologize from the bottom of my heart and i would say, listen, were going to set new policies and procedures and make sure that this never happens again. >> and lastly, sir, where are we on the investigation itself? >> well, theyve had a hearing. the ntsb had a hearing on it. and they are zeroing in on pilot error and zeroing in on how the three piles in the cockpit interreacted with the sophisticated fly-by wire system that governs the plane. but its going to come down to human perfo...

Passengers on board should have landed at branson airport in missouri. instead it touched down about seven miles away. the 737 quickly runs out of run way. the pilot jams the brakes and the plane stops just 300 feet from a steep embankment. >> i had my seat belt on. it was a good thing because we lunged forward and braked for a sustained time. >> could this be anything other than pilot error at this point? >>. [ laughter ] it certainly points in that direction. >> reporter: the run way just over...

It. on average one or two of these incidents happens every year somewhere in the world. so in 2009 a turkish airlines 737 landed at the wrong parpt. polish airport. saudi arabian jumbo jet at the wrong airport. it happens every now and then. it is inexcusable and usually there is an element of pilot error because they werent communicating with each other and looking at the instruments but it happens. >> i figured we were talking about this and i said this cannot be that common that this happens....

Accident like this, you cant look at one individual thing, you have to look at the interactions. when we can put in that term pilot error, it makes us feel better we found out what went wrong. we dont need to look any further. we have our scapegoat and we can take comfort in the system and move forward. >> this person is bad, this person did bad things. if i just remove this person from the system, we would make it safe. weve gotten what we term the low-hanging fruit. the easy stuff to fix. we c...

After a single cause. >> i do not think this accident was due to pilot error. this was a complex warning, and there were numerous little things that went wrong. and the margin of safety was eroded by all of them to the point where the system became brittle and broke. >> and im sorry for everyone who has that empty space at the table and that empty spot at a christmas tree. im just sorry. sorry is just not a big enough word. >> i can honestly say to her, im sorry shes had to live through what wev...

Look at one individual thing, you have to look at the interactions. once we can put that term pilot error, it makes us feel better that we found what went wrong. we dont need to look any further. we have our scapegoat, and we can all take comfort in the system and move forward from here. >> if i just remove this person from the system, we would make it safer. weve gotten what we also typically term the low-hanging fruit. the easy stuff to fix. we cant take all the pilots out, so we need to move ...