• Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.works
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    7 months ago

    Insurance companies, being for-profit institutions, are poorly suited to manage industry safety.

    As for theories as to exactly what happened in terms of “the power failure caused the rudder to remain 4 degrees to port and stopped the bow thruster, causing the ship to veer off course” or whatever…I’ll wait until Brick Immortar reads me the NTSB report.

    Being a pilot (as in an airplane driver, not a harbor pilot) as long as I have, I’ve had this conversation a lot:

    “Did you see that airplane crash in the news?”

    “No.”

    “Here look:” 3 seconds to look at a hastily googled headline and a badly taken photo of what looks like a mangled Piper Cherokee wing sticking up from behind something “What do you think happened?”