You couldn t question anything. but i got up and i walked out. the ntsb is mandated by congress to find a cause of an accident. we re actually one of the last industrial nations that determine a single probable cause. when congress created us, one of the things that they asked us to do was to determine the probable cause. that s been a part of our statute for over 40 years. when you look at a complex accident like this, you can t 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 don t 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. we ve gotten what we also typically term the low-hanging fruit. the easy stuff to fix. we can t take all the pilots out, so we need to move so that we can actually create real safety. human error is a symptom of something much deeper in the system that is not correct. until we recognize that, we re going to have a really hard time bettering the system. congress has to act and say, we
Actually, i don t really want to tell her anything right off the bat. i would like to listen to her first, see where she s at. and then go from there, because what i know now, everybody s experience is different. it s 9:00 p.m., and as you can see, it s still bright outside and we re on our way to see bahia and her dad at the train station and i m excited. i said just to be yourself and express the way you want to. hello, nice to meet you. hello, nice to meet you. [ speaking french ] it s nice to meet you. bonjour. we went to this house that
this is the airport where we took off on january 21st, 1985. i didn t move here to be near the crash scene. it was just more of a i don t know. you think really deep about what you re doing with your life and all the people that were involved with this accident that may have done more with their life. and you feel guilty that you re not using your life to do something better. he always talks about it, he s sometimes depressed about it. he s like why am i still here. like i made like a fool out of myself. like i m not even doing anything with my life, and it makes me sad. during the course of my life, the last 25 years, i have been curious to know what makes a person heal from a situation that happened to me. i ve never been able to find out or talk to anybody that has been
I m willing to bet if the crew had those two picture to choose from, they would have chose the right one. it was not a matter of choosing between two different choices, it was a matter of why they thought they were in the position they were. that should have been the focus. there were too many times that i really wanted to stand up and go, how can you say that? i listened to them dismiss the tower from the whole thing. i got up and walked out. i didn t know what to do. the fact that i couldn t say anything. i couldn t go wait a minute! none of us could say anything. you couldn t question anything. but i got up and i walked out. the ntsb is mandated by congress to find a cause of an accident. we re actually one of the last industrial nations that determine a single probable cause. when congress created us, one of the things that they asked us to do was to determine the probable cause. that s been a part of our statute for over 40 years. when you look at a complex
i have an article that the kentucky herald had published that showed faces of the people who were on board. it gives profiles, and not that i go back and look at it just to torture myself, but just to see who the people were on the plane and see what they had done. the age range is so big from 16 to i think 70. but i don t think there ll ever be a time that maybe i can forgive myself because, again, going back to what i had mentioned in earlier conversation, the people that came on board the plane were my responsibility. they were mine and captain clay s responsibility. and if there s anything that i can say to the family members is that i m sorry we made that mistake because they lost their