"It becomes a question of pilot judgment: do you put yourself into that situation if you're not appropriately trained and rated," he said.
American Airlines began a private inquiry Friday into what Mr. Wagner described as the pilot's "poor judgment" and "inappropriate" comments.
It was such a joint venture, though, that led to his death: in March 1944, against his American pilot's better judgment, Wingate insisted on being flown to one of his jungle strongholds.
But not every accident is an indictment of aviation's training, safety and maintenance programs, nor necessarily reflective of poor pilot skill or judgment, nor indicative of a conspiracy of manufacturers to sell us faulty parts.
With Cosell, there was the faintest of lines between self and self-parody, and yet through all the outlandish blowhardery there was a pilot light of sane judgment.
The NTSB's final hearing on May 1, 2007 determined that "the pilots' inadequate planning, judgment, and airmanship in the performance of a 180-degree turn maneuver inside of a limited turning space" caused the crash.
The judgment concerning whether a pilot study can be published as a 'stand alone' monograph or possibly together with another study as a combined monograph is made by the editorial board.
This, anyway, has been the judgment of many… Our pilot, David Kunkel, asked me to retrieve his oxygen bottle from under my seat, and when I handed it to him he gripped the… SQUAW: Chief, your people are starving.
The pilot program is "trying to shift the conversation from opinion, judgment and surface-level conversations around a checklist to deeper-level conversation," Ms. Leo said.
"The universal preference, however, has been to require pilots, so that human judgment is available.
