AceCrackshot
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Since someone decided that higher paid pilots are safer, I did a little research on crashes that high paid pilots made. My point is that income level of the pilot and commitment to safety do not correspond. I don't make as much as other pilots, but my wife and kids are relying on me to come home alive. Most of these accidents could have been avoided - sometimes by technology, sometimes by judgment. They all involvoed pilots at U.S. major/legacy carriers making the big bucks for that period of history.
12/20/08 Continental/ Denver/ off runway on t/o
12/8/05 Southwest/ Midway/Snow
11/12/01 AA/ JFK / kicked the tail off the plane
3/5/00 Southwest/ Burbank/too high too fast
6/1/99 AA/ Little Rock/ Landing in thunderstorm
12/20/95 AA/ South America/ CFIT
7/2/94 USAir/CLT/landing in thunderstorm
7/30/92 TWA/JFK/ botched aborted t/o
3/22/92 USAir/ New York/ t/o in ice
2/1/91 USAir/LAX/ 737 lands on Skywest Metro
8/31/88 DAL/DFW/727 t/o without flaps
11/15/87 CAL/DEN/ DC9 t/o in snow
1/1/85 EAL 727 hit mountain in Bolivia
12/18/78 UAL DC8 out of gas in Portland/distracted
5/8/78 National 727 hits the water in P-cola
12/1/74 TWA 727 hits mountain in Virginia (IAD)
9/1/74 EAL DC9 CLT
7/31/73 DAL/BOS/DC9 hits seawall in low approach
12/29/72 EAL/L1011/Everglades - mtc distraction
12/8/72 UAL/MDY/737 Crash after rejected ldg
7/30/71 Pan Am/SFO/overweight t/o
5/3/68 Braniff L188 Electra crash in TS
11/20/67 TWA/CVG/CV880 crash on approach
3/9/67 TWA DC9 hits Baron near Dayton
11/11/65 UAL/SLC/727 crash on approach
2/8/65 EAL/DC7 crashes trying to avoid PAL 707
2/25/64 EAL/MSY/DC8 into Lake Ponchatrain
11/30/62 EAL DC9 crash in New York - pilot error
Pilots are human and make mistakes. We try to learn from it and put procedures in place to stop the error chain. While I would gladly take more money, that won't make me decide to be more safe.
TWA L-1011 in 1992 was not a "botched aborted t/o."
The best evidence is that the aft load bearing wall for the aft wing spar cracked after t/o, thus leading the crew to believe that the aircraft was in imminent danger of catastropic failure. In the ensuing evacuation, no lives were lost.
The TWA 727 that hit Mt. Weather in 1974 was a government failure to properly establish ATC terminology. The failure specifically was failure to homogenize of the term "cleared for the approach." The USAF and USN had two different criterion for controller use of "cleared for the approach."
Thus, the phraseology "Maintain xxxx feet, until established on an published portion of the approach, cleared (instrument approach) to RWY zz" was codified.