MY2 CENTS
A bell does occasionally ring when my words are heeded, something that brings me great joy. I received the following e-mail after the January 2019 air medical crash in Iowa where three people lost their lives. It was from a person who had remembered my words of caution and in the moment, acted on them, and wrote to tell me they were very happy they did. Here is what they had to say:
Randy, I wanted to take a moment and
tell you thank you, thank you, thank you for your class! We recently declined a flight here in Ohio due to unsafe weather conditions then later we saw our competitor accepting that flight and the result was the Survival Flight crash that killed the pilot and two flight nurses.
I will always remember taking your class with your crazy antenna, showing vigilance ready to identify and break a link in an error chain forming, and thinking, who is this guy? He’s got my attention now! I remember you talking about pressures and being actively smart. So I wanted to thank
you, I hope you realize just how important your seminars are to all pilots young and old.
The high-profile Kobe Bryant crash and the hoopla it created caused me to recall a passage I read several years ago that seems apropos:
“Whenever we talk about a pilot who has been killed in a flying accident, we should all keep one thing in mind. They called upon the sum of all their knowledge and made a judgment. They believed in it so strongly that they knowingly bet their life on it. That their judgment was faulty is a tragedy, not stupidity. Every instructor, supervisor, and contemporary who ever spoke to them had an opportunity to influence his judgment, so a little bit of all of us goes with every pilot we lose.”
Matt Zuccaro has done his part. I’m doing my part. The question is: Are you listening?
Randy Mains is an author, public speaker, and AMRM consultant who works in the helicopter industry after a long career of aviation adventure. He currently serves as chief CRM/AMRM instructor for Oregon Aero.
He may be contacted at:
info@randymains.com
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