Asking because of Air India 171. Pilots and their unions are objecting to it because of “privacy” reasons. What do you think about it?
Asking because of Air India 171. Pilots and their unions are objecting to it because of “privacy” reasons. What do you think about it?
It doesn’t prevent anything in the moment. It serves as an investigation tool and learning tool after the fact. And that is the real prevention tool. We don’t have to rely on cockpit narration to know more about what’s going on beyond the instrumentation and controls.
What’s to learn? From this incident specifically.
That a pilot with a history of mental health issues most likely did it? What does that teach us? And what are we going to do about it?
Anything shy of treating it as a disability and retiring the pilot with full pay until their retirement age will result in people still hiding rather than looking for help when they need it.
The USA doesn’t have cockpit cameras and has a pretty exceptional safety record, so I’m not sure what anyone is hoping to achieve other than blame someone, which is entirely contradictory to safety.