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konschubert on July 11, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: SFO near miss might have triggered aviation disast...

Then it would still be pilot error, no? I mean, pilot error doesn't mean that the pilot is to be blamed. It just means that he made a mistake.

waqf on July 11, 2017 [–]

Yes, the pilot made a mistake, but no, the cause of the accident isn't pilot error. From the point of view of preventing similar accidents in future, the cause of the accident is whatever caused the pilot to make the mistake.

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