THE HUMAN ERROR
I was one of the fi rst to arrive driving overland with a
truck load of “boys” (natives) to help contain the fi re from the burning aircraft. One of the crash victims was a baby boy who had been thrown clear in the crash and was lying in the grass. He was very dead with broken twisted limbs and bloody lacerations on his body. But he was about the same age as my son, and I clearly see his body as I write this and will until the day I die. I remember that I did not want to talk about it with anyone, not even my wife. I thought I could have just as easily have made that mistake. I seriously considered getting out of aviation at that time, but was able to tell myself that the memory of that child will serve to remind me never to make a mistake. I was able to use his memory to guide me through life and hopefully be a better person for the experience. People with PTSD will have experienced something dramatic in their life that they were not prepared for. They will live with that experience for the rest of their life, but they can learn to deal with it and accept that there is nothing they can do to change it. If they are able to take
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the experience and use it to make them a better person, the 8-track can be made to stop for ever longer periods of time. Go to YouTube and type in “Wrong Side Of Heaven” by the band Five Finger Death Punch and you will see some statistics from the veterans who have experienced the horrors of war. Way more have died from PTSD and are still dying at the rate of about one an hour than died in the war. But you don’t have to experience war to get PTSD, and it
doesn’t need to end in suicide. I just fi nished reading the story of the Qantas pilot of an A330 that, as he put it, “the computers went berserk.” The aircraft suddenly went into a violent dive throwing anyone not strapped in into the ceiling breaking through and on coming out leaving hair and scalp behind. The pilots became “ineff ective observers” and the computers had complete control. This scenario was repeated several times, but they managed to land it between episodes at a small airport. As he walked through the aircraft, the scene of blood and injured crew and passengers was imprinted in his mind. He received professional help but he described the stages of his PTSD as
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