The Law has been on vivid display with the suicide plunge of the Germanwings A320 into a French mountainside. It has been possible to see the heads of some of media types bulging under the pressure of trying to understand that there are no perfect decisions; that every decision involves compromise and needs to be based on trying to optimize conflicting outcomes. "We reinforced cockpit doors and now we can't break them down when we need to!!" "Someone has to DO something!!" As always, when you the hear that, at a minimum put your hand on your wallet. At worst, prepare to be railroaded "for safety".
I don't know that it has reached its peak, but the insanity certainly cranked up to 11 today on Fox News' "Bulls and Bears" business program with the first segment debating whether or not every cockpit in every plane, should live stream video of what's going on in the cockpit to the ground. The common argument was "it's cheap".
No. It's. Not. A single webcam is cheap. The infrastructure they're suggesting to minimize the occurrence of an incredibly rare act is absolutely not.
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Keep muzzies off planes=no problems! Duhh!
ReplyDelete:) But looks like this one was mental.
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