Sudden Death

I have been watching the Nat. Geo. series on air crashes lately. The human tragedy involved is grave. It is shocking when the RCA of the mishap is done, and all of it points to human error.

For example, consider the decision of the captain of an aircraft (with over 10,000 hours of flying experience) to get into a thunderstorm, knowing very well that the prescribed limits were being exceeded for a safe landing. In another case, The Boeing had a faulty locking system for the cargo door due to a design flaw. This caused the door to rip open in an airborne flight, pulling out nine passengers out into the open. One passenger apparently went straight into engine number 3. This "flaw" was already detected by The Boeing, but the airline had not implemented the "change" yet.

In the most shocking case, flight crew of a Boeing 757, started to get absolutely bogus data from the onboard computer, minutes after takeoff. Their altimeter and speedometer stopped working. The reason was due to a glue tape being attached to the "pro-static" sensors on one side of the aircraft by the maintenance crew during a routine clean up operation. The glue tape was not removed, and thus the sensors could not feed the computer with correct input. The aircraft eventually crashed into The Pacific. There were no survivors.

Amazing how man creates these big machines, and is unable to control it! This world is driven by economics and business, and one tends to ignore the basics of humanity and mankind. Take for instance this madness to cut trees and make way for fly-overs and vehicle movement. Where will you get so much fuel to run these machines? How will you counter the soil-erosion and the rising temperature and heat of the earth? Does any city-planner have any clue?

Mankind is sure towards it's extinction; or will it be a sudden death? Hope this post survives even after that, as a lesson for the next evolution.