RE: How to measure, the fact that didn't occur.

Sakuma_at_BDZ.crane.jal.co.jp
Fri, 16 Oct 98 12:51:11 +0900

I am afraid I have caused you to misunderstand my intention. In fact, I agree
with you by 100 %. I do not intend to criticize the flight crew's final action
and decision making. Only god knows which choice was better. Not me. I wrote
this part of message to lead my notion that the go-mindness campaign is
resulted from "it should happen" syndrome that you mentioned in your mail. I
expect to have your idea on the go-mindness campaign for RTO decision making.
Hidetake Sakuma

> Hidake wrote
> >he probablly knew the RTO at higher ground speed on contaminated runway was
> >very dangerous. The RTO might have been better choice at that time even if
> any
> >structural and personal damage could not be avoided.
> In addition to this last SuissAir Crash, through some comments it looks like
> if Capt. should make the decision of landing without any fuel damping taking
> shorter the outcoming could have been better. Is that an antiauthority
> attitude that could help in that case as well as in Air Florida case RTO or
> a lot of cases where the ".. it should happen" cannot be measured. How
> valuable is that component of our personality to be help and how to detect
> when it begins to be dangerous. Top Gun's Maverick syndrome.