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Originally Posted by prktkljokr
Ok so the next time your enjoying a flight somewhere, have a think if you would be happy if the pilots left the cockpit and went and had a nap for the 4 hour flight and let the plane do the flying?, and if the plane crashed who's fault would it be, Boeing for fitting it?
There needs to be that human element there just in case.
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Well, if you want to talk about Boeing, look at the Boeing 737-800 MAX issues, they were determined at fault for their systems that caused the planes to crash.
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It is nearly four years since Ethiopian Airlines flight ET302 crashed minutes after take-off from Addis Ababa to Nairobi. 157 people died when it plunged into farmland outside the Ethiopian capital in March 2019.
The accident involved a new design of aircraft - the 737 Max.
Just months earlier, an almost identical aircraft operated by the Indonesian carrier Lion Air had crashed into the Java Sea on what should have been a routine flight from Jakarta to Pangkal Pinang. 189 passengers and crew lost their lives.
It later emerged that both accidents were triggered by design flaws, in particular the use of flight control software known as MCAS.
The system was designed to assist pilots familiar with previous generations of the 737, and prevent them from needing costly extra training in order to fly the new model.
But sensor failures caused it to malfunction, and in both cases it forced the aircraft into a catastrophic dive the pilots were unable to prevent.
Investigations in the US revealed that Boeing had not included information about the MCAS system in pilot manuals or training guidance, and had deliberately sought to downplay the impact of the system in its communications with the US regulator, the Federal Aviation Administration.
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They had implemented a system that was faulty, that killed 346 people
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-64390546
Pilots were there flying the plane, were they not responsible for the deaths of the 346 people? They were at the controls of the plane when it hit the ground.
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Originally Posted by lra
Yes !
I don't use a nail gun and am completely unfamiliar with it, but if I pick one up and then shoot myself in the head with it, who can I blame ?
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If its at work, then thats the easiest contravention of section 21, 2(e) of the occupational health and safety act 2004 in VIC you'll ever get
Section 21 OHS Act 2004:
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21 - Duties of employers to employees
(1) An employer must, so far as is reasonably
practicable, provide and maintain for employees
of the employer a working environment that is
safe and without risks to health.
(2) Without limiting subsection (1), an employer
contravenes that subsection if the employer fails
to do any of the following
(e) provide such information, instruction,
training or supervision to employees of the
employer as is necessary to enable those
persons to perform their work in a way that
is safe and without risks to health.
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You shoot yourself in the face with that bad boy at work and your supervisor is going to be sitting down getting railed
But you could do it at home and its your fault.