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As an aside, I think it's an indictment of the changing culture here on HN that this well-written and detailed comment is being downvoted to gray.

Why downvote this? Because it's interrupting a hate-fest on "21st-century capitalism"?

IMO the Salon article itself is pretty worthless; most of the substance comes from the IEEE article that has been already been well-discussed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19694207

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It's probably being downvoted because it's a long and rambling way of yet again blaming the pilots for not following procedures when the official investigations have proven that this was absolutely not the case.

Being "well-written and detailed" doesn't make it correct.

(I didn't vote either way, FWIW).

Yeah I clarified in the reply that I don't think it's one or the other but all of the above. I'm trying to supplement the author's write-up, not override it. I hat that it's become a case of a single fault. It's not. It usually never is. And people are arguing only one side or the other. In every incident we need to look at the whole picture.

Neither investigation has concluded or issued more than preliminary findings, so it's a bit early to close the books on this subject.

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