I don't know if anyone is following the 777 crash at SFO anymore, but this is a big WTF:
Eventually, the 777 screeched to a stop. That's when the lead flight attendant approached the cockpit and asked if they should evacuate. The flight crew, which was then talking with the air traffic control tower, said no.
An announcement over the aircraft's speakers told passengers to stay in their seats.
Then, one flight attendant noticed flames outside, around row 10, and told another attendant to relay the information to the cockpit. At that point, the evacuation process began.
This whole process -- from the plane stopping to the evacuation order -- took about 90 seconds, Hersman said. That's the amount of time, she pointed out, in which U.S. regulators say an airliner should be entirely cleared of passengers and crew.
They were lucky that delay didn't cause any more deaths.
Honestly, it sounds like one fuck up after another. Hard to believe. Now the elevator tells me that the pilot is claiming to have been blinded by a white light when they were at 500 ft. Not sure that passes the smell test given all the rest of what they did wrong.
Reflections off the mirror he was snorting blow from, perhaps?
Didn't I read that he had never landed that class of airliner before or something?
He hadn't landed a 777 at SFO before. He had landed then at other airports.
Now the elevator tells me that the pilot is claiming to have been blinded by a white light when they were at 500 ft. Not sure that passes the smell test given all the rest of what they did wrong.
Yeah. Two points:
1) He was being trained on the 777. His instructor also bears responsibility.
2) They should have aborted the landing once they reached 1000 feet.
Scola's Law of IT: Given the clear choice of a simple solution or a complicated solution, people will choose the more complicated solution every single time. When you challenge someone and try to explain that the more complicated solution is not necessary, you will be met with blank stares, and you will be ignored completely.
I am so burned out in my career.
Someone called the police because a father took off his toddlers' bathing suits so that they could shower the sand off at the beach. [link]
Given the clear choice of a simple solution or a complicated solution, people will choose the more complicated solution every single time.
Relatedly, I just got an email forwarded by my mother from a friend of hers. The friend asked my mother to forward me her question.
I emailed her directly last week.
(And we have corresponded before)
How does she not have my address?
Tom Scola! Weren't you having some major career shakeup? What ever happened with that?
What timeframe are you talking about? I was laid off last year, was unemployed for six months, and started working for NYC a year ago.
In general, I'm burned out at what I do, I want to do something else, but I don't know what that is, and I have some deeper personal issues to work out before I can figure out what would make me happy career-wise.
