Fair and balanced FOX News had to bring up the terrorism angle briefly. I guess anything is possible in this day and age but... Lexington KY? On a Comair flight to ATL? The media just jumps all over things like this with absurd speculation. Why can't they ever wait to get more of the facts from credible sources before just running their mouths?
The wrong runway aspect is just sad and tragic. Yes, it was preventable, blah, blah, blah. Mostly ALL aviation accidents have been preventable in some way. There's always a chain of events and while it appears from the outset this chain is short, we have to wait until all the facts are in before making any decisions.
We all make mistakes, and most of the time, they won't be our last ones, but we never know. But it just serves as a reminder that in aviation one mistake can have very dire consequences and not just for you. We all need to do our best to keep accidents like this in the back of our minds, remind ourselves to triple check what we and the other guy have already double checked so that the same thing doesn't happen to us.
It's easy to sit here and say that, I know, but we have to make sure that we don't let the people who died today die in vain. If we can take a look at an accident and say "that'll never happen to me" and do our best NOT to let it happen, then that's what we've got to do and it's the only thing we can do. How many articles have I read on running out of fuel and swore that I'd never do it? Yet once in my limited flying experience, I nearly did. I learned from that mistake and we need to learn from this one.
Godspeed to everyone flying and God Bless to those who left us today and their families.
